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    Is it stupid to short the top % gainers of the day?

    I have beeen shorting rising stocks too but it's very, very, very risky...if you get cought in the short squeezzzz and your stops will not help if stock keeps gapping up and moves violently fast. Here some bad example..of mine. I don't mind sharing so you would learn. I shorted ALGN at...
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    IB chart's are not good

    by "two screens" I meant to have both long term and short term charts. Like you can do with stockcharts.
  3. J

    IB chart's are not good

    I don't see a way to have 2 screens, have good charting. Looks like IB's charting is nothing compared to StockCharts.com. While execution is good I wish charting was good too...I am ending up using QuoteTracker for charts and some data, StockCharts.com for charts and IB for trades. Any...
  4. J

    would short MFW based on Overbot?

    Should I consider "waiting out" the short sqeeze run?
  5. J

    would short MFW based on Overbot?

    how to tell a short sqeez? Where do I see short ratio...most up to date and accurate? I don't think my IB account has this info. Thanks.
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    would short MFW based on Overbot?

    Plus... -Daily Volume drying up -MACD hit highest and ready for decline -HISTOgram is tracing bearing down trend
  7. J

    would short MFW based on Overbot?

    Would you shorted...since stock seems to be tired and keeps hitting above Bollinger bands, going at abnormal increase rate...reminds GEIO couple years ago. Thanks for sharing!
  8. J

    Are these expos worth attending?

    Traders Expo http://www.tradersexpo.com/tradersexpo/main.asp Is it worth it? What would I get out of it? Any others you would recommend? Thanks.
  9. J

    How does BID SIZE and ASK SIZE affect Opening?

    Should I pay any attention to BID and ASK SIZE prior to market open to a particular stock? How do I interpret if one more than the other? Thanks.
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    How does BID SIZE and ASK SIZE affect Opening?

    Should I pay any attention to BID and ASK SIZE prior to market open to a particular stock? How do I interpret if one more than the other? Thanks.
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Don, I am looking for your bootcamp dates and pricing. How much is it and when? Thanks.
  12. J

    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    2 Longs 1 Short No fills :mad:
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Here we go: 1424.73+10.25=1434.98 1434.98/1434.20=1.0005 No Change? Obviously it's many hours before open and Futures could head either way...but is the logic and calculation above correct? Thanks.
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    As of right now: FV=10.25 http://www.indexarb.com/index.html SP500 FUTURES 1434.20 http://www.bloomberg.com/index_americas.html SPX 1424.73 http://finance.yahoo.com/?u
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Here is SP500 FUTURES but not real time... http://www.bloomberg.com/index_americas.html
  16. J

    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Early mornings Yahoo Finance has data on Spot price (spx) and where Futures are trading.. Also I watch Bloomberg online and they aslo provide this info. What is a one "perminant" place I can check for this data prior to market open?
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Lescor, you said you trade same stock everyday, if you want to. What about combining this strategy with momentum trades? I wonder how likely for stock to dip (though happens often) when it's in bullish mode and you can see bullish and volume and pressure building up. I'll test it to...
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    You explained perfectly. Just called IB...looks like I had to enable "OPG" order type, no wonder I never seen it before, plus order needs to be in 15min prior to trade. One thing I need to work on is how to combine this strategy with my trendfollowing, momuntum trading. I think I'll do my...
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    Don I am trying to put your 2) point in numbers, correct me where I am missing: 1) Spot price (spx) of 1426.84 + FV 10.56 (from http://www.indexarb.com/index.html) = 1437.4 2)1737.40/1434 = 1.00237%... 0.0024% 3) But diving WMT closing price of $46.16 by 1.0024% gives $46.06 but your buy...
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    How does "Market Open" affect your trading

    1) How do you know there are 500K and 350K SELL shares? I have level II..not sure where I would see it. After your post I searched ET for "FV calculations" and found some usefull information, some quite varying. 2) For today, what was the FV reading and how you used your formula to come...
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