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Your question goes to every debate, on every market-monitoring procedure -- whether shorter-term 'technical', or longer-view 'fundamental'. And what a great morning to cite as an example!!! We're back up to pre-market, fergawdsakes! I wish I had time to address this (open) question properly. I...

It is *such* a pain in the ass. And you can *see* it, and then not act, and bash your head later when you calc the lost recovery from the spreads you did not take cuz you were too cheap to buy-out. :banghead: ALL OF US have that little battle. :mad: Oh, it's not unbalanced or disproportionate...

Take a look at volume: you will not find a market at 0¢bid - 5¢ask. What a pain! And in the meantime, you watched it cook down from some interminably long period of time, while your at-risk capital was giving you zilch. Would you open a trade at 15¢? $$/day $$/day -- that is where each of...

These are in the wrong order but, 1) place your shorts such that your longs are on a big, round numbers -- so if your spreads don't get hit, you can give a shot at leg-by-leg. 2) {and much more important}. Don't find yourself in this position in the first place. You've seen how those spreads...

I put up a graph of IV for targeted spreads over 6 expiries, and finally got around to putting up the VXST/VIX on the same graph -- just as a curiosity. Although I look as a step-1 overview of the market when I'm setting up, I *rarely* see anything by way of correspondence that would make me...

This will do anything you can input, for free. https://www.libreoffice.org/ With a little fiddling, you can get something like this: Being able to offload platform data is step #1. Secondarily -- a caution: the probability you cite is in reference to a specific moment in time: expiration...

On the *extreme* outside chance that some reader does not gather the full impact of your *cogent* reply, Slartibartfast, I hereby submit.... at 00:30 in.....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-proposes-fees-for-futures-industry-1518457327 Freakin' idiots.

I appreciate where you're coming from, but the interpretation you're citing is incorrect itself. Taking a Weiner process from a Brownian motion (random walk) underlayment, implies a 50|50 split between some movement up, and some movement down. It remains a pretty fair representation of a market...

"The markets have successfully predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions." Paul Samuelson, MIT professor, 1970 Nobel Prize laureate in economics.

In silent answer to the perennial question.... "Meh. I have my up days -- I have my down days -- It's the markets, you know. www.elitetrader.com"

:wtf: Dude! They told you not to back off the meds that fast. Sheeeesh.:rolleyes: :D

Make sure you go to Global Config and check the questions about the Caution Boxes that have to do with Market Data Assistant -- specifically, that it is 'un-checked' and will bring up Market Data Assistant whenever there is a usage/data permissions question.

With 9:30 cash open, you have a lot of market-moving agendas geared up and just coming online. Whether net up or down, you're trying to figure them based upon (<9:30am) candles mostly formed before those agendas showed. Phew! FWIW, I don't think that's gonna happen. To be evidence-based, you've...

But the shoe has already dropped -- and it costs $1.5 Trillion dollars. That'll put a pinch on your monetary value, sure as shootin'!

Look up "contango" and understand it -- you won't wonder about the VXX any longer. ;)

Screw it, man! Go with whatchu got! :D

Lots of great comments in this thread thus far. But I called a bottom when I thought "we might go down as far as 2700 on Monday".... Well, yah, Tom, we done and did that. Then I thought, "Well! If we taste 2600, hit the "Buy!" button." Done that. Shorted the t-shirt. Scat -- I think we hit...

:sneaky: Part of the secret handshake. :cool: No lie. It should appear on a banner above every TWS monitor.

I think a tick chart would do a whole "Scanners" thing on me -- with the top of my head coming right off......