AARGH!. Selling at 43 looked tough, was curious about a long that would test the open from Friday of 55, went long at 44.25 and closed it out at 48. :(
well, live and learn. I get unsettled in the last 1/2 hour to see trading go my way with volitility high,
I just need the VIX symbol...
I've been sitting on the sidelines most of the day due to volume and pending economic data to come, guess i missed a little move but could have lost it if i had continued throughout today,
good call APEX.
what direction will ES trend , in the 15 after bell, due to this last 15 min sell off? I'm familiar with CL after hour trends, but not too much with ES>, ANYONE, ANYONE, ..... Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?
APEX... tried 3 times to break 37.75 and failed, u think it'll still go to 50? Does it being a Friday mean anything to u? I wonder how many are more comfortable getting rid of long's b4 the weekend.
I cocked locked and waiting to pull the trigger, better to sit in the bushes and watch , ready to pounce instead of jumping in out of fear of missing moves.
My short call at 1440 on Jan 2nd re-inforces that i'll get in at the right time and if not... I'm pretty confident the markets will be...
Oct 1987 anyone? only difference is that the banks had to inject 100's of millions of $ of liquidity in order to get the CME to reopen the day after black monday. If fed doesn't do something pleasing to the banks,... lets just say 'not good'..
1987 week pior dow had lost 10% and then 500...