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Well, in the past, the SPX has been a market that A) required far more margin to trade since it has double the value of the OEX B) was mainly an institutional market where they would do some larger hedges...It has alot of Open Interest, but smaller volume at different strikes than the OEX C)...

My personal belief about the OEX is similar to what AAA said a few posts earlier...Position yourself carefully and do it with extremely good planning...You give up ALOT in terms of vega, theta, vig, etc, etc when trading the OEX because the spreads are so monkeyed around that you are almost...

I never read too much into an options expiration...I have seen many many swings in the past 6 months were the market will just "pin" a pivot range and just sit there for two days and congest just prior to reversing or breaking out to another entirely new range...It's just a very difficult few...

The price action going into options expiration, over the past 6-9 months, has been almost identical...I have made rules about not trading on options expiration Fridays any longer because it seems the game has changed from years past. It used to be a decent day with some good one way movement...

It sounds to me like you are bored with the current environment and just want to find a new way to skin the same cat...There were alot of threads on starting funds, CTA's, etc about 3-4 months ago...Seemed like a sign of the times, when the volatility died back in Feb and March and everyone was...

I am a fan of Monarch Computer Systems...They have some of the better computer parts and reasonable prices...You have a wide selection and can also have them custom build a workstation or server with Xeon Processors, RDRAM, etc..They also have the Matrox Parhelia video cards...Overall, a first...

I think the pendulum swings both ways in the first hour...And, perhaps, that is the reason the volatility is greatest in the first hour...I find the best opens, as far as potential to exploit, occur the further you open from the previous close(either up or down)...The unchanged opens from the...

Just a quick question for any of you that have this set-up with two separate Video Cards for dual-head set-ups(4 monitors total)...Has anyone experienced any driver conflicts, system failures etc...with a Matrox G550 (AGP) and a Matrox G450 (PCI) for 4 analog(CRT monitors) with Windows 2000 Pro?...

whatever man, all I know is I have read about your Ivy League education about twenty times now...

Actually it's Rich Beem, but from a book I read he sure seems to enjoy his Jim Beam... And, btw, I thought Trader99 had finally overcome his inferiority complex...It had been a few months since he mentioned he went to an Ivy League school and worked at an IB...Get over yourself already...

While I would agree that there is alot of trash tv on, I think there is an incredible amount of great tv on as well...That is the beauty of cable or satellite dishes...You have some very intellectually stimulating programming these days... Ten or twenty years ago that did not exist...Nowadays...

Her personality and her demeanor remind me of an elementary school teacher trying to explain the "a,b,c's" of this or that to the classroom...So much of it is just watered down generic advice that anyone can read in literally ANY book on the bookshelves...She is just another franchise unto...

It is also an interesting development that all of the major derivatives players(the ones who have the greatest counter-party risk for all the OTC derivatives markets they make) all tanked on about 5-6x average volume on July 24th, just one day prior to this massive(is this the Lundy bottom...

Babak, you hit the nail on the head...It's the "moral high road" to be invested on the long side and to be grieving over your losses...The majority needs to hear that this is the only way to make money and that there are no alternatives in order to preserve their sense of well being...I think it...

you make good points...I am seeing pure apathy on the color commentator/guruvision network...It just seems to me that there is no real passion for investing, stocks, etc, etc in the masses any longer...These gurus were so popular during the bull market corrections, when they would say "this is...

I know exactly the guy you are talking about...Brian Finerty(????)from Unterberg or something like that...I remember it listed him as "Head of Listed Trading" or something similar to that...The guy had the voice of a guy who had been trading in the pits for 30 years...Always sounded like he was...

thanks for the information...at least its better to know when the problem will most likely occur...

With the action in the bonds and the overall mid-day weakness that was bid higher into the close...I see two different possibilities going forward: A. A "rolling chop" market higher with a series of range bound days that get resolved in the final hour. Lots of "bear traps" or bear baiting...

I heard a rumor that Richard Dennis had some space with ProTrader's offices at the CME location...Can anyone confirm of deny?

well, one of the better indicators for future price action lately has been the bonds reaction...From what I was looking at, it did look pretty compelling to the downside especially when the NQ punched thru 950 on several occasions and the ES kept breaking back under 895 and then 893 area...Bonds...