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And here I'd thought they all died last Thursday. :eek:

Yeah, I kinda doubt you'll get filled today. edit: either way :cool:

Gotcha ... for some reason I had the impression you were testing it in the morning, when things appeared a bit more ragged. (To Schiz ... apologies for the thread detour.)

Thanks ND ... by the way, you talking 5min ES? ... w/trend meaning some higher timeframe? - (5min EMA's all over the place today, so what is "trend"? :) ...) Seems a perfect day for fade tactics, whatever they might be. As always, appreciate the input.

fwiw, EUR gap fill imminent. Will ES try to do the same? ... edit: (by "try" I mean will it even come close)

Nice video austinp - thanks for posting. I do have one question if that's ok ... by definition, your p.o.c. bar is confirmed 5 bars into the future ("highest/lowest bar for 5 bars prior and 5 bars after"), and I believe a couple of the entries you discussed depended on anticipating...

Best I can tell it was at this confluence of a TL (also Schiz's?) and this fib left over from last Thursday.

Wild moves in the EUR this evening. Gap getting close to filling.

minus commissions ... there's you're answer.

I believe he said it was less than 2% of his account. Interesting post though ... thanks stock777.

Garch, was just curious about your hedge ... OTM VIX calls? How many contracts per ES contract? ... TIA

Yeah, looked like close to 25 handles from that chart. Here is a more detailed look on a 5k volume chart with 2pt grid lines. Obviously the time intervals on the x-axis are variable, but you can sort of piece together different 1-minute price moves selectively.

Came across this thread from a while back and thought I'd offer a chart from Thursday's craziness. (Sorry about the lame scale.)

I heard it explained that some of the HFT boxes stopped trading at a certain point, and that the lack of liquidity that created, combined with the preceding crash in the credit derivitaves markets just created a total snowball effect. It just shows the darker side of how influential those bots...

You mean whenever except yesterday. :D

I guarantee you the market will not move 100 points like it did today. Possibly 50-60 though.

Yes, thanks. That came in after hours today. What I was talking about was one of those real-time bulletins that flash when an exchange is down, etc. It seems that if a number of stocks are being halted even if only momentarily, it would've been helpful for IB to let us know this so that we...

I don't recall seeing any, but that seems like something they should've been and usually are on top of, as far as alerting clients.

In any case, I'm glad this one worked out for you. Can't argue with booking a profit.

For the most part ES is forgiving. But scaling by 2's can be deadly in the current volatility at certain times, unless your entries are perfect. Yesterday 1st hour is a good example, or Monday during lunch hour.