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"I'll have what he's having..."

The ES SEP future is 2.5pts behind the SPX -- for the last 10-15 years, it's been (at the transfer to a new "front month") ~8pts. This is the second time I've noticed this -- MAR-JUN and DEC-MAR being the prior two that I can recall with surety. We haven't seen any material rho ("interest...

Jeeebus.... "Everyone is a genius in a bull market." Trade long enough, and you will see your shit dry up -- I'm talking about your "milling money" set-up -- the kind of stuff where you're just clicking all day long, bringing in nickels and dimes and quarters, and you massage your mouse finger...

IB's TWS does indeed have such tools -- half of which come up as screen shots when you submit an order. There are plenty of videos and instruction pages on these (3??) different sets of tools.

I'm gonna be ill. Here's the TRIN bearishly ticking upwards past 0.90, and the market still doing the popping thing regardless. (Up 10.5pts at 10:25ET) Topside getting squ-weeeeeezed. Gotta go.

Exactly. But your first post implied rampant, un-reasoned printing of money. The steady performance (on the Monetary Policy side) of the economy connotes a precise and well-executed 'printing of money.'

"More money printing"??? You've never heard of inflation, have you? Quantity Theory Of Money? MV = PQ and all that? Or, M = PQ/V, as it were? If I jack up the M, then either GDP has got to increase, or we've got inflation. Since both P and Q have been stuck in low gear..... and V is down to...

just a quick google away..... http://investing.kuchita.com/2014/05/11/svxy-historical-data-and-pricing-model-since-vix-futures-are-available-2004/

Yeah-but, how can the market "get better" when you've low unemployment; earnings and revenues beats; whoa[!]-low inflation; a business-friendly party in the White House, Senate, and House; low oil, low metals; and a market outlook that sez, "Balanced risks abroad mean steady-as-she-goes..." I...

Huh! {cue little smiley thing with the whole chin-scratching-looking-up-thoughtfully thing going on...} Who'da thunk it, with ToS? Thanks, S&Fit!

After another day of NYSI TRIN closing at a *very* bearish 1.34 (and yet the SPX barely budges!), the way things have gone for half-a-year or so, tomorrow can be expected to have a very bullish TRIN of 0.60-0.70, and the SPX will, like today, mull around a ±10pts, but a pop (15-25 pts) is around...

Broken-wing butterflies written at ~|0.23| delta. {thinking thinking thinking....} Even a 1-{skip}-3-2 [!!] on the topside. Other than that, reduce, reuse, recycle.....

Your .pngs really illustrate your bewilderment -- I can't come up with an explanation myself, but then, I am no ToS expert, either. "I got nothin'..." :(

Because of your opening post.

As this (JUN) future is expiring, the position likely holds (shorts) the SEP. As the SEP ages, the value of the position would change. The OP doesn't say in which direction the slope occurs, nor whether the graph is 'at expiration' or X-many days to expiration. BUT[!!] the graph (PnL) set-up is...

From my observations, that's exactly right. There are two 'products' -- I think both are from Australia -- Hoadley is one (Hoadley is outrageous; Hoadley should be a household name amongst traders, IMO -- one of the only guys who really *nails* it, AND for a great (IMO) price...

Your 1256 observation is right on. But the net of your post is that ES FOPs are traded over a greater clock than SPX options. It is an illusory benefit. ** The SPX now trades from (I think) 3am to 9:15am ET. ** For both the ES and SPX, the volumes traded outside of major market hours are teensy...

WHITEBOARD!.... I use three -- pre-printed month calendar (econ events, etc.) and two 3' x 4' -- placed within eye view, with markers handy. I can write shit on the fly, and never lose track. I grew up with a List Of Things To Do -- lived and died by it in college/grad school, but fell out of...

Nope -- the permutations of which you're just getting a handle, grow too much in no time. A "roll" is a fiction that *we* employ. TWS is, first, about trading, and second only, about taxation/regulatory exposure. When you open/close a position, it's opened (or closed). What if you split a...

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