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completely meaningless without context...2008 Oct 1 spx abt 1154.....10 days later in the crapper at 839:eek: Oct 10 look at the VIX..it went from sub 30 to almost 80!! Insane vol and movement in the SPX in 08 and 09 11% up in one day...nothing

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not posted...past week I've done as many trades in 3 days as just about all of last month. There is absolute opportunity for a trader as Fighter said if you trade both sides of the ES market. I think next week will offer another week of volatility in addition to options expiration so I'm...

I'm a bit confused:confused: there seems to be a 7 minute lag betweet ET time and time on my computer which is pretty accurate...its 10:01 and ET is saying its 9:54 why? all MST

too busy trading to post:D

mag...why not just do ES options?

this is the chart I put up lats month...we now have broken thur the middle (up) trendline...will we freefall to the bottom TL? With such a steep, fast drop I hesitate to continue to go short....however certainly have no reason to be long. While I thought we could be down 50pts this week I...

nice trade there vol...everyone is at fault ammo. If Boehner allows congress to vote on a clean CR he loses his job as speaker. so he is a frightened chickensh#t..dems are arrogant bas%dards and none of them really seems to care what the whole debacle does to the economy. Where is...

Noticed big and fast moves on my (tick) screen abt that time. We have 7 trading days before default which..surprise...surprise ...happens on day SPX Oct options expire. Expect pretty sharp moves and put buying on moves up. I rolled out my short calls/puts Oct to Jan and imagine a lot of...

no it does not..a bit of a different animal. vxx/VX is not the same as spx/ES...a number of different moving parts. I know I don't understand it thus don't trade it.

go for it pink...they love fresh meat :D

dunno...somewhere heard along the way:) I do KNOW...Washington has given us traders an amazing gift and I'm respecting an 18.5 VIX. wouldn't be suprised to see low 20's this week. staying short bias

I thought M's (double top there...) was supposed to be a neg signal

I got "stuck" with a short at 75 close on Fri. I'll buy it back at 71.25 and planning on buying a protective call (weekly) but decided this week could get very ugly even "if" there is a deal...I think enough damage has been done to slow down the economy for the balance of the year....will see...

Still a nice overall return..perhaps knowing you can't trade at work will help you keep disciplined to just taking the highest probability trades and not over trading which with our commission rates...is the bane of my existence.

I've had no problems trading real money (since 05) I don't really use paper trading much so can't help with your problems. You should get a good answer from the trading desk. I agree with the above response that simulater fills can't really duplicate live fills.

thanks ammo...swim lesson was where I heard Jeff B demonstrating it and I thought it was a pretty interesting indicator. also interesting he was using tick charts.(not Jeff..the guy your talking abt). what I've used pretty successfully in the 1600 along with slow stoch..perhaps I'll throw that...

RS Wilder is the guy that created this and he does quite a lot of backtesting/research etc so I think it must have some validity. No question for us retail traders longer time frames...less trading simply is more cost efficient. Thats one reason I've switched my option trading to futures...