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This question/answer is really an outgrowth of something you want to prioritize above that: how much reward are you seeking, for having undertaken how much risk, with your capital. No matter the trading targets, and regardless of method, a professional will have very precise trade entry/exit...

Just remember that HV is backward-looking history, and IV is forward-looking guesswork. Looking at the differences between them can be (IMO) quite informative, but that doesn't mean trade-worthy. :cool:

Have you thought about a local math/finance type? Where are you? Is there a MeetUp around you? A local university with an unblemished Java/finance geek waiting to be formed into something useful? Before they invaded my personal email contacts, I used to have very constructive contact with lots...

Wilder's ADX/DMI+/DMI- are about the best single indicator set-up invented. But don't accept whatever lookback parameters were defaulted on your platform: experiment and find what is best for your underlying. (And how do you know when you've got the best set-up? Because you can put up a piece...

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SPX == 2842 10% == 284pts. Correction in SPX == 2558 200-day Moving Average: 2515 We could have a 10% drop today, and still be 43pts, 1.70%, above the 200-day MA. Jeeeeeez. :wtf:

Well, while I appreciate much of what Neuroway was/is posting, my dissent was made in rueful recognition of too many times having "nowhere to go." I mean -- think about it: we're giggling happy at a 12 vol, ignoring the fact that 12 is 20%-40% below historic norms of 15-20. I mean, that's just...

Take a hot shower, and direct lots of water from your ear to your collarbone. You will be AMAZED at the difference. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: RIGHT NOW!! :D

Here's the graph of *reality* -- that yellow trend line represents a 2-year top-of-candles marker, with ~20pts of headroom on it. It's 'angle' is not dissimilar from the 2-3 years prior to that, either. It had a total of ~1 week where it hit/exceeded the yellow line. Thus, in keeping with a...

Totally with you, except that I rarely bring up a chart for an individual option, and aside from curiosity, can't say why I would not require viewing the underlying (*whatever* that might be) as the pertinent choice.

I just reproduced it -- Wow. Sad!!! ALSO!!! Same thing for the Jan26 172.50 put, except the outage goes from 10:50 to 11:48am.

AND you'd want to examine it by strike -- that will show you some agendas, for sure.

Not with 8-handle VIX it ain't. :wtf::vomit::confused::mad:

Apropo of nothing...... What a great thread. Thanks, all. :thumbsup::):thumbsup:

But not even close in school math, school geography, infant mortality.... "Hoo boy." :confused: But Lo! We're "killin' it" in sex ed!! :wtf: Yessireee. In the age of the Interwebs, when Johnny and Suzy both know at 12 SO MUCH MORE than you or I did at 22 [ :sneaky: ].... we've got to take...

Except that there are big issues in resource consumption {read: bandwidth, RAM, and CPU time} and usability-over-time -- 1) I hate MicroBloat, and use OpenOffice -- Java-based, friendly to other spreadsheets, smaller, STABLE -- the downside is that the documentation/performance for...

"Worth repeating." I rarely put on ICs; I am very commonly *balanced* top and bottom, though -- I mean, that's just margin (margined risk capital) utilization. :rolleyes: :)!!

From your keyboard to Mr. Market's ear......!

What outrageous timing!! After MUCH stalling, I'm finally gearing up to develop a Java API to pull SPX options to feed a spreadsheet in real-time. Not unlike this guy's long-standing product, I suppose: http://www.tradingsoftwarelab.com/joptionchains/ for which I should've coughed up the EU$300...

Sorry you missed the repeated notices, but IB's been doing this ('starter' codes, then live-account codes) for a dozen years that I know of, exactly the same way. There are multiple points where notice was given to you.