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Flat now don't have the patience to wait this out, we may drift down from here.

The only guarantees are death and taxes, oh and my endless string of bad entries in the es. :p

Long entry here 5 point stop. looking for a run to pivot.

Just saying that the august correction in the SP500 was not a 25 STD DEV move. Now if you are leveraged up the wazoo, ok. The SPX corrected less than 10% from its peak. I expect some bullshit as no one likes to lose, but I am surprised it printed. 1987 crash: The magnitude of...

chart. $1571.50 hit. next target $1600.00. We may back off from here but plenty of room to enter long again, Have a great weekend all.

My stops are a little tight but I had a full position on. Still looking for a break above $1571.50.

Anyone getting beat up trying to get long? Can't get an entry to save my life should I be bearish?

25 standard deviations from where?

David Viniar, chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs – whose flagship quantitative multi-strategy Global Alpha hedge fund is down 32.9% this year to mid-September, and in August plunged 22.5% – termed August’s market moves as a 25-standard deviation event, something that would normally...

Tomorrow could be dangerous either way. I am alot more concerned about short side surprise; this one is a hard call. Will most likely be flat into the report then look for a break, how are straddles priced?:confused:

especially something coming from BULLSHI (p) TRADING. Thanks for paying the bills though, I hope you sell a couple million and stay a sponsor. :p

Can you post a link, thanks.

You can get some good deals on any and all of the above. Watch Boston for a bottom.

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you should be alright. Took a quick long with horrible entry, flat for a small loss. The pivot looks like a brick wall at the moment. Atticus I assume you are still holding short here?

agreed, most professional traders have at least 2 sources of data, one for data consistency and in case one platform fails you have a backup to hedge. Good luck.

BIDU. That was some strong tape!! :cool:

Man, tough crowd, you need a PHD to post here., although I appreciate the use of the words "dump" and "puke" as trading metaphors. Someone needs to start an ET trading glossary. :D

Did you see the action on bidu, I thought it might go into outer space.

Stop $38.73. Out $39.10 may do this all day.