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Mining for paired trades with HOT and HST: This chart is a screen shot from mid-session today. Annotations applied an hour later. Having gone flat on a notable chart for a pairs trade started Aug 1, by legging out of it a number of days ago, an opportunity may commence to leg back in...

Apology gladly welcomed. 101 is great to start with and stop with. To go beyond would generally be for majors or those minoring in it as perhaps a supplement to their major. Anything more on a personal subject would be more suitable to PM each other to allow this thread to remain on...

Pull your sensitivity antenna in ! Read more carefully. Use your common sense. No one can expect to go past 101 unless majoring in it. 101 is all you need to be ahead of 90% of your fellow citizens and probably about the same among non-professional traders. Geesh !

You are a master of metaphor, darkhorse ! Great advise there, too. On the way, kjones, check out and understand the meaning of elasticity of demand, too. It will help sort out some of the puzzle pieces for you; one little but important piece of econ 101 (micro) Kjones, You picked a...

Ya must have missed my comment, kjones. You were probably composing your "mock" comment while I was posting mine ! LOL !

That essay came in my Aug 17 email. Here is a public outlet: http://www.businessinsider.com/mauldin-how-change-happens-2012-8 John Mauldin's essays are long, but well worth the time: ... easy to read, exceptionally meaningful, definitely educational and hugely constructive in gaining...

Wow ! That is a huge, well described, LARGE picture of current status ! You can include in the drop of wage scale: (1) underemployment (about the same thing, as skilled workers that are displaced into other and low paying jobs, and also recent school graduates in respectable majors being...

Oh my ! I need to become one of those in the 10% of the population...mustering resources and intellect with a web site to order fairy god mothers on demand, each with their specialty. MY cost of goods in that business would go out of sight if I find one with the ability to rheostat (meter) a...

Eloquently stated darkhorse. However, it addressed only a subset of a larger environment that kjones and I were posting about. Indeed yours addresses a different theme than the originator of this thread intended as defined on his (yours) originating post. I was visualizing a macro...

Tell us how you really feel. I thought inflation was the way to mitigate our debt payment by paying it off in cheaper dollars over time. Who is kidding who ? As our currency goes down in value, our souls we owe to the company store ( Can you spell C-h-i-n-a ? ) will have the management...

I don't know what shanb means when describing his looking for "a pullback in the spread." Included in his response for sure is a movement in the spread. He has a picture of a "pullback" and maybe it is the same as mine (below). Look at a two stock plots scenario: There WAS quite a...

If by any chance someone stumbles on to my post (the last one regarding Long HOT and Short HST), check the Trading forum / Charts of Note at this date and ones I posted for a few days before starting on Aug 1. It has been a terrific one and I believe more to go with it. My real point...

What are the "drivers of my pairs" mean ? What are the drivers you are referring to ? Tech Analysis ? Amount of spread ? Any of the many software platforms out there for pairs ?

My question is "What does the plot you illustrated represent ?" I see you are using two stocks, but I only see on plot.

If you have lots of money, than trades in this manner can be lucrative for your time spent. If you have a modest amount of money, then you are getting returns exceptionally higher than dividends for money put into trades. If you have small amount of money to trade with, it's just a hobby...

Please tell me how you distilled a pair into one plot.

What is a margin calculator, caveman ? (We should take your premise to another thread more appropriate for it than this one on Charts of Note ! ! ) (Try TA forum / Spread trading thread. or Journals forum / Pair Trading Strategy ) I will join you there. It kind of mucks things up...

Correction to the last post (HOT short HST long): I meant to say that three months ago and two months ago, HST was SUPERIOR to HOT. The two reversed positions and the rubber band stretched to the max relative to the history of these two's plots. This thread is amazingly quiet for...

Observe that in on the three month chart, the first two months witnessed HST being inferior. HST has just now reached parity with HOT. It has the potential to plot much farther up relative to HOT and superior to HOT. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3606906>

I closed half the position some days ago for a gain that would ordinarily be equivalent to a full position for me. It closed today with its widest spread (gain) since inception of the trade. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3606905>