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TXN today is a great example of a 5 minute chart being misleading about where a stock opened. There was a lot of discussion of this a couple of weeks ago. You can usually tell from a 1 minute chart with volume. Unfortunately most quote sources use the "all markets open." One that gives you...

looks like it opened at 49.75 and spent next 8 minutes or so in profitable area before drifting down.

4 fills, 2 wins 2 losses - one bad actor in the group, -49 cents net after commissions. Ended a 7 game win streak. (did not trade yesterday.) My exits sucked- I probably got a little flustered by the one stock that was misbehaving. Shoulda made a little. Still a positive week, can't...

2 fills on 12 stocks 2 wins, (1 long 1 short) +12 and +36 net, total 48 cents after commission

That is a gut feel issue. I look at ECN activity, where is the stock bid and offered and is there size? Today on KSS I actually moved my bid way down into the area where it was trading premarket. I ended up cancelling because I got enough fills and had all I could handle, and it was still not...

That's pretty much all I needed to know. I went to the spreadsheet and the historical intraday charts of the S&P's and the individual stocks, and did a lot of grunt work. Found that pure brokers and techs were a little too jiggy for me. Using financials, drugs, retail, industrial material...

The Dow "has too many stocks whose time has past." gotta love it...

Where did you find the Open Only order within the TWS ? Time in force column - select OPG.

Don't know the official line, but I am pretty sure I am entering more that 4X my equity when buys and sells are totalled. I do know that the IB system will not allow new position opening orders, and will automatically cancel standing orders to open new positions, if the account is undermargined...

Does IB allow you to use OO orders to place a buy and a sell order on the same stock at the same time, as this system requires? yep.

http://www.ctiming.com/TradeRecs.asp I can't remember if it was in one of his books, or a lecture I attended, but Larry Williams has pretty much revealed the techniques he used in this contest. For the bonds, he had some kind of support resistance band system where he was selling into...

I didn't trade it, but some thoughts on how to handle it- (not that I have the fortitude to trade it this way, but this is my observation.) In looking at a lot of intraday charts, I see instances where when the trade goes against you from the get go, If you can wait out the first 15 minutes...

orders on 11 stocks, 6 fills, which is higher than normal. 4 long, 2 short 5 wins and a scratch. all out by about 9:45 or so. total of 79 cents after commission. (did not trade Friday) 13 of last 15 days profitable.

She is legit. She calls trades with time to enter, defines risk, etc. Entries are on stop limit, an exact exit stop is always specified. She does not publish a track record of calls that I am aware of. She will often trade only one to three times a day (eminis only) so the challenge when you are...

so the strategy is to buy a stock with big buy imbalance immediately before the close and then enter a moc sell order? How long before the close do you usually enter?

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11 order sets, 3 fills, 3 winners +36 +14 +8 total net 58 cents.

Don- do you do anything different on triple expiration days? or just follow normal procedure?

Hitman- I just use beta in the fair value calculation. I don't adjust the envelope for beta.

Hell, I've only been doing OO's for 3+ weeks. I'm a little surprised at how smoothly it's going. "SPM is the big sp futures contract 9:15 close that you are using? Also, what source do you use for beta on your stocks. Have you pretty much settled on 1% or are you adjusting based on size of...