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Of course, there were also the gaps caused by the events of 9/11 and the following period from that morning until the markets reopened on 9/17. ES closed at 1101.00 on 9/10 and according to my ES200112 charts, the trades between 4:15 ET and the morning of 9/11 were effectively busted. The...

If memory serves, the largest most recent gaps in the index futures occured during the controversy over the Florida vote in the 2000 election. The Florida Supreme Court was issuing rulings that seemed to make Al Gore president, until the US Supreme court overruled them. On two consecutive days...

Kicking --- According to my data, on 9/11/01, ES was trading at 1100 at 8:56ET, and it moved down for the next 34 minutes with one major jerky spurt between 9:05 and 9:11 (!) ET. The last trade I have recorded was exactly at 9:30ET, at 1073.25 ---- a loss of 26-27 points from its average...

Spoos are the S&P futures.................

Probably the best discussion in print is in Victor Sperandeo's books (Trader Vic and Trader Vic 2), where he identifies the pattern as 2b, and gives several trading examples. Trading bull/bear traps is also a mainstay of Teresa Lo (who in honor of Sperandeo also refers to them as "2b"): if you...

As someone who has supported himself for extended periods by betting on horse racing, I'd like to correct a misconception about a horse's odds that has been assumed during this thread. A horse's tote board odds in a race are determined SOLELY by how much money has been wagered on him by the...

Basically favorable reviews at Amazon, though some complain that his book is mostly anecdotes and the method is very basic, presented in just a couple of pages. It seems to be basically for long-term investors, holding positions often for years at a time, as it's a method for picking...

http://www.dontloseyourass.com/jake.htm

www.streetstories.com/Monroe_Trout.htm

1) During the 1980's I supported myself by betting on thoroughbred horse races (at the NYRA tracks ---- Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga). One of the most interesting things about the racetrack environment is that you get to meet some fascinating characters. A man who became one of my closest...

William Eckhardt's interview is a model of lucidity and perception when it comes to understanding why traders win or lose. And yes, Ed Seykoya for his superb and very helpful philosophical overview of the subject.

Tradersavvy ---- Spreadem offers excellent advise. For at least a month DO NO TRADING AND just WATCH ES and/or NQ, every tick, every day. Do paper trade (either in your head or on a simulator). With no money on the line and no emotional attachment to a position, after you've watched many...

https://www.cboe.com/OptProd/snp500.asp

Es reopened at 7:17ET at 916.75, up 11.75 points from the outage level this morning. As of 7:21 ET, ES at 918.00.

Koros ---- The big NASDAQ contract is traded in the CME pits by open outcry and its current symbol is ND02Z or ND Z2 (depending on your quote provider). The ND trades at $100/point, 5x the size of the electronically traded (Globex) NQ contract. ND and NQ are usually very similar ---- they are...

Several points about a very comnplex but crucial topic: 1) Van Tharp, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, p. 268: I think adaptive [adaptive moving average] exits have more potential than any other form of exits. Some of my clients have developed exit strategies that move up [or down]...

All indicators lag by definition, because by their very nature they are constructed from data that has already happened. (Just as all price and volume data that reaches you lags as well, because its creation and dissemination is less than instantaneous.) However, there is lag and there is...

The gap is caused by an exceptionally high close in the NQ futures yesterday afternoon at 4:15. During the 15-minute aftermarket trading period, ORCL announced that it handily beat earnings expections, sending NQ soaring. Then, after the 30-minute trading pause, when the minis reopened at...

Rollover is always on the Thursday one week and a day before the Friday expiration of a contract ----- the third Friday of the calendar month. Hence rollover occurs on the second Thursday of the month, 8 days before the contract's expirartion, unless the expiration is on Friday the 15th, in...