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I am not really an ACDer but i watch this thread for posts from the "boss". Maverick74 spoke of using a catalyst or event or news for an opening range. Maybe it is a way of thinking that say, within a weekly structure of Opening range, A-up And A-down, an eventful news catalyst occurs that leads...

Surf, Which side are you arguing for? I can attest that in the mid 70's , in the US, private , small New England college education, Including room and board, was $5000. I just checked their site and it is $50000 today. Mid working class wages of 15,000 in the 70's is, in my opinion...

The trend in oil continues. Consolidation of price for weeks was not a bottom and 40 seems inevitable.

Is this correct? Foreign investors sell theirs and others currrencies to purchase USD to ultimately purchase US equities. This has been happeening for some time now. Years maybe. Since last summer it has been MORE profitable to sell US equities and remain long in the denominated currency...

Subscribed. Read your Japan thread. EWZ and BZQ are now on my watchlist. Poor option liquidity in both. Any thoughts on where this is going?

8 days ago the dollar had a huge positive day and subsequently broke out upside with follow through. In hindsight it looks easy but the day of that massaive green bar one could say the tight liquidity areas/levels were withdrawn. Can small technical traders do this or this big money at work...

Considering assets classes of Currencies,equities,commodities and sovereign rates, I would like to learn more of the close interplay between rates and currencies rather than the other two. I smile at Mavericks warning months ago of these currency moves as possibly historic and seeing it playing...

Wouldnt it be better if an individual decided what things were necessary to watch then worked towards developing their own scenarios. Are not newsletters an example of expecting too much from a minimal amount of work at a deep discount? This is just for discussion. I cant do this. Maberick74...

And the winner is......Xandman or, says the liitle guy as he points to the large man the room.. "Im with him"

Maybe Nasdq 5000 or 5500 becomes a poster for streched valuations. Someone find the bullish consolidataion of QQQQ Oct,1998 at 126osh, before rising 98%. Ok a stretch, but seriously, with more worldwide QE announced recently and, as we speak with China, it is possible this thing could take off...

http://www.barchart.com/quotes/futures/EDU15 See the reaction to the excellent January NFP on the Sep 2015 Eurodollar contract on approx 5Feb. Higher rate expectations were priced in but slowly walked back pre and post fed minutes. On the equity side , Nasdaq5000 and a fed reluctant(?) to...

"Say it aint so". I strayed from IB for a couple of years and recently returned due to what i remembered was versatile order construction. I specifically remember One Triggers Another orders. I would like to place a limit order that when filled triggers a market order on the more liquid leg so...

Common lore is the advantage a little retail fella has over "big money " is his ability to fully enter and exit with a single mouse clicks. Has anyone out there actually managed entering a position such as "long term US treasuries" of say 500 million USD? Must be some algo or ratios relating...

Just another thought regarding relative trading/investing. Apologies if somewhat off topic from spread trading. In the US any spread we buy is probably denominated in USD , unless you actually have an account with multiple currencies, and, the rising USD is a drag on the spreads...

US treasuries and stocks are in theory, negatively correlated since stocks receive risk money At the expense of bonds. Therefore, going long both stocks and bonds is a hedged pair in that a selloff in stocks is hedged with bonds bid. The nice part about this "pair" over the last 6 years is...

Gambit, Baskets vs. index. Am i correct in my assumption that , as an example, this is selecting AAPL and a few other strong tech stocks as a basket (long leg)vs. QQQ(short )? If so then i could see a strategy that monitors say 100 tech stocks, 100 financial stocks, 100 healtcare stocks...

CL has shown some nice SLA behaviour at 53-54. Do those who use SLA daytrade primarily and follow a single instrument like NQ or, follow multiple symbols on an EOD basis? Thanks.

Changes to language regarding "considerable time" to "patience" with regards to when rate hikes will begin has been important. Like taper,which was undeterred by events, many feel fed is determined to begin to normalize rates and will modify "patience" language if the first hike is to be mid...

I love zerohedge for very quick daily overview. His bottom line must be enhanced by his End of Days persona. He cannot be that smart and that wrong.

I am maths challenged so i am not inclined to run coint. tests. I do it backwards. If i run a simple 2sd xover mean reversion on 10,0000 equity spreads over many years, some generalities appear to be true to me. 1)High degree of cointegration. 2)Reversion of correlation (it was temporarily...