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On days when YM gapped down 50 pts or more, what are the chances of it closing +50 pts up for the day? From my experience, I bet it is greater than 75%, but it would be great if I could put a number on that. I don't have the data or a back testing program and any help would be great.

Thanks a lot StealthTrader. Much appreciated.

^Thanks... These are the choices under Time Templates: Equity RTH-West Coast Equity RTH-East Coast 1 Day 2 Day 24 Hour 2 Day Tick Doesn't look like anything that I would need. And they are the same inside "Edit".

Anyone know how to get to a much older date on a 1 minute chart without scrolling for an hour? thanks.

IB's 1099? comes with a list of fills; not orders and it takes a whole lot of time to wade through each trade if you do size. And no totals either.

Will it break the overnight high?

a Cynic. Here I am praying for the hurricane to miss U.S. and you are trying to profit from it.

lol.. No statistical support. I was just going with the notion that you know, after a spring coils down, then it has to break out sometime. Just like an apple that has to come down. Just the basic laws of nature.

Yeah.. chop is when YM is stuck in a 45 pt range. A trend day is when there is a >100 pt difference from the high and the low of the day.

There is a 50% chance that a trend day usually follows three straight days of chop.

Almost risk free. But the rewards are so limited that whatever the risks that may become can wipe out all your rewards and more, making it very risky in terms of wasted money, time and effort. I am a n00b, so take whatever I say with caution.

You are writing covered calls essentially, and you are leaving a lot on the table. By writing covered calls, you are trying to buy stocks that won't go up much. A destructive thing to do, IMO.

A key thing is missing in this study. Would having $200,000 or $400,000 does really make a difference? No it won't. $200,000 is still a LOT of money and the marginal utility of each increase in a $1 over that would be too low, that the rest of the $200,000 could be valued at around...

haha... Now its a head, shoulder and a tail. We are in a 5 point range. This has got to be the smallest range I've ever seen.

I don't remeber that. But, I am a n00b thus, I am not supposed to remeber those things. I bet it wasn't much though, because it was back then when I was swinging 10 contracts around. Now I swing 3.

Wow... I know I cannot compare with you. Mine was.. umm... lets see, around $1,900 on a single day.

Compound Interest looks all well and good on paper, where the numbers go from 10,000 to 20 billion in 100 years etc. But if you can realistically look at Compound Interest within the time frame of a lifetime, also factoring in income factors etc, I don't think compound interest is worth it.

Lets change the numbers and find out. If you are between 30 and 40, would you invest 1,000,000 for 30 years at 10% (historical stock market returns) and have 17.5 million when you are between 60 and 70 years old. I would contend that you can get better "returns" without investing your...

I know.. the numbers would be significantly less for the first 100 years. But why would that be "hard" to do? From a cost-benefit analysis for the first 100 years, you can derive more "utility" from using up your $1000 dollars rather than investing it for 8%. Guess thats why it is hard to...

Sidney Homer, author of "A History of Interest Rates" wrote: "$1,000 invested at a mere 8 percent for 400 years would grow to $23 quadrillion- $ 5 million for every human on earth. But the first 100 years are the hardest." Just curious, why is the first 100 years the hardest? Is it...