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With the untold profit-taker at 2460. {head-shaking}

"They're ba-aaaaack." Everything appears hunky-dory, which is great, as I'm going to try to write a little extra in light of the rapidly diminishing 12.5 vol. Gotta go! (Okay -- one more thing: I felt a little sheepish when I brought up TWS and saw all the greeks and IV sitting there, like...

Convenience. Although.....certainly not looking so convenient now.

I'm pretty sure all open interest has to be honored.

Your stories remind me of my own long list of experiences. In point of fact, I have been very lucky over time -- and perhaps no more so than today when, as the market turned (and I'm assessing -- OR TRYING -- coming market conditions), my inability to have the numbers guiding my analytics was...

They don't hold your hand -- that is true. You have to find that elsewhere, and pay for it. At any event, scratched out the laptop TWS and loaded "Latest" (971?) and no difference. Ah, well. I would love to know that, should missiles fly towards/from Pyongyang, I could work in a fully-powered...

"They know about it. It is a big deal. They are working on it." Would be nice to get this out on a bulletin, fercripsake. Basic story: brought up TWS (963.3h "stable") and observed missing SPX greeks and IV from one expiry on one Quote Monitor page. Then the other expiry(s), then the other...

Ummmm. "I agree with everyone." (Sure does cut my ET time down....!)

All this talk, and I thought, like, *yardsticks* and such were gonna come out, and we could all whip out our Johnsons and wave 'em around and measure them and put it all up on a whiteboard and and and.... "Cuz I fold it."

Two thoughts: Many people have recommended Process over Results. Going for solid Process will get you the Results you seek, but going for Results is usually death. If you think of yourself as a predator, remember that predators go for easy prey. They do not go for the biggest, the spryest, the...

I watch a slice of puts and a slice of calls over several expiries. If there is an emphasis of one expiry (either OI ownership, or instant volume) I want to know. Likewise, if puts or calls are out of proportion relative to other expiries, I want to know that, too. Do yourself a favor, and make...

Open Interest is important (for me) in how it informs on volume.

IB/TWS trader for 10 years. I pull a Fat-Finger about once a quarter. *Somehow* -- for about...... 6-9 months, now? No Fat-Finger. I'm waiting. I've even had a couple of "Almost(s)!" *Usually*, I can get out of them for flat, cash-wise. Mental/attention costs are in the $millions. (IMHO.) $200...

Well, there's always signing up to be a greeter at Walmart. [SHEESH Tom! Heavy on the *snark* today!! :rolleyes:]

Two wrongs. Let's see if we can make it right. First, "return/risk//day" seeks what all of your economics classes tried to turn you towards: marginal return -- and even better, marginal risk-adjusted return -- and even better-better, PV(marginal risk-adjusted return) That is the understanding...

Quick update: I spent yesterday cursing calendars, because I could not enter put-side calendars at "the price I wanted" {read: 10¢ 15¢ 20¢ or so} -- even missed our "Donald,Jr." dip to 2405 -- and nothing seemed to be happening on top. (holding Jun20/21 @ 2450; 2455; ; ;2470...

"Hidden orders"?? versus "Volume Speedometer"? 'Help!'

(I apologize ahead of time, but I haven't read any of this thread -- only scanned it. So I don't know if the following thread adds or not, but "long ago and far away" I was a nimble tick scalper and *so*-loved being in cash at the close of (nearly) every day. With that, I recall enjoying the...

You guys are missing the market which starts the day breaching a 2.0 TRIN, and still leaks northward. You do *not* want to be a short in that market.

Not a ToS user -- just mildly familiar with tidbits served up over time. That said, I believe you're conflating PoP (the probability that the outcome *will*breach* $1 profit) with the maximum value percentage return, should everything come out rosey. There could be many strikes worth of...