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    Big Fat Doji on the SPY...

    sorry..dont know why i did that twice...i am losing my mind. .....crawls back into cave......
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    Big Fat Doji on the SPY...

    in japanense candlestick charting...a doji most often signifies a reversal, the signal is stonger if the market is oversold or overbought. Not my interpretation, that is the textbook definition.
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    Big Fat Doji on the SPY...

    http://www.fxwords.com/b/bearish-doji-star-candlestick.html not per my interpretaion. a doji is pretty important in candlestick charting.
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    Starts of new U.S. homes plunged 14.6% in October

    i dont know why people say that we are near a bottom in that market when tthe CEOs of all the major homebuilders are in a panic. they all say they dont see an end in sight. I will listen to them before anyone else. that number is a good indicator that they are right.
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    Big Fat Doji on the SPY...

    If you follow this kind of stuff...i see a doji on the SPY daily and weekly charts.. ....crawls back into his cave....
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    WHITSTER- Golf clap!!!!!!!:D very well put, thank you. i agree 100%
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    sorry mate...I am going to keep my mouth shut from here on out for 3 reasons: 1. I dont want to give advice. 2. I have been very wrong about things lately 3. I work too hard and have to many headaches to just give the answers away. I perfer to teach you to fish than to give you the...
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    the VIX is calculated with the S&P options contracts and their volatility. as volatility goes up, the price of both calls and puts increases... so i would be looking for an S&P 140 straddle, if the prices of those options are historically low to ba able to take advantage of a large...
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    no, not quite...it means that odds are high that a higher volatility environment is right around the corner. Sentiment is independent of this. Vix is calculated but the with puts and calls on the CBOT...sorry i dont know the exact equation on how they calculate it. but... the last...
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    except it lacks logic and reason.
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    1. if you knew that, then you wount say it means nothing 2. the VIX does not track the indices...it tracks volatility. 3. nobody said it was easy. 4. I would tell you how to take advantage of a volatility play but you annoy me.
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    ^VIX at a 52 week lowwww!!!!!!

    the Vix is the most widely used and accept forward looking measure of volatility in the markets, junior. When it gets this low, historically, a higher volitility environment soon follows.
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    Google Chart Extrememly Bullish

    noooo...once again to dont get it. Just becuse we see a certain persepctive on the market (i.e. understand economics 101)...does not mean that we are losing money. we are just cautious, and understand the inherent risks in an inflationary overbought bull market that is 4 years old already. so...
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    ZERO reaction to fed minutes?

    wow. the fed is unanimously "concerned about inflation"...and no reaction form the market. amazing...i am having flash backs to 1999.
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    Pictures of your trading decorations

    I trade (run a fund and the international department) for an institution down here...and have a personal account as well. sounds fancy...but it is a small company...really no big deal. Cost of living CAN be cheap. Renting is cheap, but buying a house now adays is crazy, interest rates are...
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    Pictures of your trading decorations

    no daylight savings time...I am now 1 hr behind NY and durring the summer i am 2 hors behind....so i have to be at the office before 7:00 half the time. Internet (and phone) is a national monopoly. connections are usually only very reliable in densly populated areas i am afraid. I am in an...
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    Pictures of your trading decorations

    just do a google search...it really does look like that...the people are amazingly nice, the women are hot (the men are nothing special so it is easy to compete), the life is simple and realtively inexpensive, and volcanos, mountains and beaches are only 2-3 hours away from anywhere. A quick...
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    Pictures of your trading decorations

    Costa Rica. life could be worse.
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    Inverted Yield Curve

    emerging market bonds...ecuador has a monster cupon.
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    Bears Are Dead Meat

    i was just thinking the same thing...actually, i am swing, i am going to go intraday. but i promise, as soon as i go long...there will be a correction, so ill be sure to let you guys know ahed of time.
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