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I believe SPY would have opened down .35 on Friday compared to Thursday's close, if nothing else had changed except that it had gone ex-dividend on that day. So the adjustment to SPY's price has already been made.

The ex-dividend date for SPY is the same as the futures expiration date for ES. So Friday was the ex-dividend date, the first date that the security started trading without the dividend. For the record, the dividend was .354; see...

An issue that I have repeatedly mulled over is how to best account for this "discontinuous" change in the value of SPY technically. For example, if SPY now gaps below an important low that held the prior day, it is not necessarily a break of support. Also, things such as Fibonacci retracements...

There will in all likelihood be a distribution. It should be on the order of .35. Friday's opening price will be down by about that much from Thursday's close with no change in the underlying SPX. Some of the historical distribution data for SPY can be found by going to...

- Try very hard to get aboard those big days. - Don't wait around for a lot of confirming action. The train leaves promptly. - Jump the gun. Have a tight stop and stop looking for a sure thing. - It is difficult to be too quick or too decisive.

One website shows TRIN closing at a 5-year high of 6.63 on a day in August 2000...

Ron In-a-sauna, I had in mind systems or platforms that might trigger off the last-traded price, rather than the best bid. Perhaps there are few (if any!) cases in which this would occur.

I was watching SPY today and saw a trade of 41.1 at 12:36 in the Time & Sales while SPY was actually trading at 81.1, just above the low of the day at 81.00. I always wonder if these "bad" trade prices are actually intentional, with the goal being to clear out the stops on one side of the...

it's been pointed out that the s&p 500 has even broken its october lows, when quoted in euros. does anyone know of a free web site that has charts of the u.s. market indices denominated in euros?

I think the Dow's high was in August '29 and the low in July '32, making it really just under 3 years from market top to bottom. It was someone counting the yearly returns of each of the 4 calendar years involved - 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 - that came up with the "4 down years" statistic that is...

The wild action occurred at the price corresponding to the 50-day SMA (just above 88), for what it's worth. The longs were looking to close above it after coming back in just 4 sessions from a new multi-year low and I think some of the big players may have had other ideas.