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Another consideration when trying to evaluate support and resistance is whether or not that support and resistance was achieved on high or low volume...In December, in the S&P alot of S/R would be penetrated on the way up and then again back on the way down...If there is no one around to defend...

This sounds like the treatment for a new movie about a guy trying to lose all his wealth as quickly as possible by finding an illiquid security or options market to blow it all on...Kind of like a twisted Brewster's Millions plot... (Only problem is the guy cant figure out which way the...

I don't really know much about the Ed Moore material, but looked at his web page 3 years ago and saw all these insane claims about IF you had pyramidded a position in the OEX that you would have made xyz dollars....Of course, its just IF only I had done this....kind of nonsense... He did...

I bought a few of the Office Depot "Screen Cleaner" bottles. They were/are just about as cheap as Windex and do a nice job of cleaning the screens and are recommended for computer monitors specifically...I used to use Windex as well, I am sure there isnt much of a difference...

Nicely said...And you brought up an often overlooked phenomenon of a sort of "sector" inflation vs deflation scenario, which is one that few people have mentioned (or at least I have not read about anywhere else)...And thats just what the talking heads want...They want to focus on only the...

Actually, this topic was brought up in the last Market Wizards book by an individual who had made a small fortune in a short period of time betting against the implied wisdom of the marketplace at certain times... Basically, I think the question and solution has to be applied to each market...

The VIX spikes up on down days as opposed to spiking up on up days because of the volatility skew inherent in the OEX index options...The skew to the put side means that the implied volatility increases the further OTM you go on the put side, whereas the implied volatility decreases the further...

Nah, you are checking that Yahoo Sports to see if its for real that those lowly Vultures took out the cream of the crop in the Playoffs...:D

yes, Fibtrader is an excellent product

Its always interesting to look at fund performances at IASG...Quadriga's assortment of funds got absolutely crushed in October...It stands to reason that Quadriga is basically perfectly correlated with having leveraged short exposure to the S&P 500...Therefore, investors in the fund are...

Considering that the volume in the sp futures pit has been quickly dying over the past few years and more traders are moving away from the open outcry format of trading, might tell you something about why a guy is trying to promote himself on infomercials and now in the Traders Section of...

DRW Trading, I believe is the firm that Donald Wilson owns and operates...I remember the press covered him quite a bit back around 5 years ago...He established himself as a bigger player very early in his career and it seems that he has grown his operation nowadays... G-Bar is a firm I have...

So which one of you guys has a chart of Crabels book price from low to high?...

Its a good question as to where the 90% number comes from...It seems that it is just a convenient number, but nothing much more than that... Someone once mentioned, that it might be possible that a number such as this could be true for OTM options, but that this is irrelevant because the...

Opinions are one thing...Indictments are another...This "one size fits all" mentality going on around here is a bit tired... And you know what...while the guys who are down visiting the 440 South LaSalle St graveyard, maybe they should go over and visit the 30 South Wacker St graveyard...

Why? Are you working for the Brazilian Bureau of Tourism? Common sense is common sense...I have been to many countries around the world and you better have eyes in the back of your head in many of them...

I remember a similar thread about 2 months ago where GG said that he had lost too much money and was now feeling the pressure of someone who was undercapitalized and making emotional trading decisions... The simple fact of the matter is: If you do not have the adequate capital to trade...

I believe Trajan has very valid points and has outlined the reasons why an American in a foreign country would want to literally "watch his back"...Many of these South American countries have deteriorated economically in the past several years...That is just a simple fact...Crime existed in...

I havent put anything together in Excel, however I routinely calculate "convergence" levels between the indicies(INDU: SPX: OEX), etc, etc...All you need to do is determine the multiplier...This is obviously a static number in indicies which are almost perfectly correlated...However, in other...

Why wouldnt you simply open a second account if this was your intention of hedging one time frame against the other by simultaneously having exposure to the same security...Otherwise, dont you think it is highly probable that the software your brokerage firm is using will not make the...