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  1. tommcginnis

    Noob VIX Futures Options Questions

    I don't think you'll make this. But BOY do I hope you do. I would watch ES volume -- there has been a pattern of big *squeeze* sales in recent V-bottoms, and if something sparks a run down in the market, that big volume "Help meee-eeeee!" spike should mark the top of the local VIX -- and the top...
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    who is the best options trader in this forum ?

    Whoa -- talk about 'playing with yourself'.... :wtf: :rolleyes: :D
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    The Rise And Fall Of America

    Well, you got that part right. (I'll admit that I just don't have the stomach or the time to read the rest...o_O)
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    TICK and TRIN suitable for Swing Trading?

    I'll bet you a pint of https://flat12.me/on-tap/half-cycle that a 6minute SMA imposed on that TICK would be a great(er) indicator. :wtf::rolleyes::)
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    TICK and TRIN suitable for Swing Trading?

    The NYSE-TICK is sick, and needs lots of attention and medicine, and no one is tending to it. The NYSE-TRIN (and its various SMAa, YMMV) is an old and reliable friend. If you're gonna go that route, though, you'd want a VXST/VIX, too. Time frames?? Gonna depend on your underlying. Investigate...
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    thinkorswim buffering

    Similarly, my IB/TWS cruizes along at 2.0g, including Windoze7 and 5 graphs. I think if I tried to squeeze it into 500mb of RAM, it'd laugh at me.... http://www.youareanidiot.org/
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    When is too many options, too many?

    The conversation seems to have devolved a bit. But here's a pull from yesterday afternoon. Make of it what you will.
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    thinkorswim buffering

    to repeat.... Windows Task Manager Resource Manager both available in Windows 7. o_O
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    thinkorswim buffering

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    IB third party wire transfers

    I am not sure, but I believe that this is all related to their debit/credit card offering, and requires that you take (what I'll term "taxable possession") of the funds, and from there, IB is doing nothing more than your bank would, and would/could send it anywhere you wished. In that way, they...
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    Does anybody use the MarketGauge indicators? What do you think?

    Being as there is nothing new under the market data sun, it is "very unlikely" (read: impossible) for the indicators you seek to not be similarly available amongst the plethora ("Yes, Hefe, I said 'plethora.") of indicators on every platform. So, posting a formula or two would go a long way to...
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    Brokers that are doing badly

    As far as bona fides go, I'd much rather know where/from whom someone was degreed than their age or citizenship. Age is accidental; citizenship is mostly accidental; education is a choice and so something I'd want to know.
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    thinkorswim buffering

    1) Use a keyboard for ET instead of your phone, so we can understand you. 2) Check Task Manager (or whatever similar function for your OS) and insure that you have adequate internet speed *reaching* your computer, and to identify ToS as the resource hog, and to identify whether it's a RAM or a...
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    Configure TWS market depth trader colors?

    I would be surprised if they were *not* configurable. Any help?
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    What's your experience in the industry?

    I worked in a similar environment -- *tremendous* job, pathological office. I found this very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Te_of_Piglet When I finally got the ax (for pointing out the idiocy of a $2.3B proposal then ended in felony charges for the higher ups nearly *into* the...
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    Vix mark

    Hey, you guys are posting some great charts (worth at *least* a thousand words each!), but with no attribution to the software/platform visible (to my eyes). If you could drop just a parenthetical cite in there somewhere, it'd be much appreciated. (FWIW, I reside in the IB/TWS world, where any...
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    NYSE to launch new NYSE National exchange in second quarter

    Saw this. Had the same reaction. It's like "Divide and [re-]Conquer." If it weren't for the degree of source 'capture', one might hope that "an additional supplier" would drive prices down, but it's that recognition and *capture* of economic rents ("We can charge for own-sourced information, so...
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    The Rise And Fall Of America

    Way too sensible.
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    How did you decide on your trading strategy or method of trading?

    How did I decide? I let the market speak to me. It said:
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    Is this the return of tick scalping in the ES?!?!?!

    Hey -- another "hairy" day in the ES -- ("doji"-grown) wicks above and below relatively stable ES price path, between 9:40 and 11:30 today. ATR(6minSMA) above my (remembered) preferred range of 0.5-1.0 pts., but then, I'm not tick-scalping either. DAMN tempting, though. But those wickes just...
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