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Greenleaf, Kap's equation is the one you want, M is your slope, rise/run, dy/dx and C is your offset constant. So if you have two points on the line you can find the slope of the line and with that just solve the equation for the two extended points you want. -doji

ok here is my question: What is the relationship between instruments with the same underlying? For instance DIA, YM, $INDU, or SPY, ES, $SPX. The futures versus the cash is pretty clear, so I guess what I am interested in is the relationship between the etfs and the cash and the etfs and the...

not just you, they had a bulletin up saying that the ecbot was unavailable for trading, problem at the exchange. oh hey looks like it just came back up, I noticed the exchange didnt have a problem with tradestation. Must be the massive movements we are seeing today. -doji

Ok, I'm comfortable with options, comfortable with futures but I have a few basic questions regarding options on futures. To make it easy I'll give an example and if my understanding is woefully incorrect I'd appreciate someone letting me know. ex. Straddle YMM04 is at 10000...

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I never quite understood what all the complaining was about since I don't usually trade through announcements, but since I was long dia I payed close attention today. It was pretty bad I must have been without ecbot quotes for at least 20 minutes (I had tradestation running side by side so it...

35 minutes? sad to say sounds like they are getting faster :( -doji

yep looks like a bad rumor, kind of interesting take a look at the book on it right now, bids are lining up. I think the actual verdict overloaded all my quotes, got knocked out of schwab, IB, and optionsxpress, granted could have just been a coincidence did see a cable van running through...

I shorted it at 28, I have some unresolved issues with them. -doji

If it makes you feel better I took my profits on TASR somewhere around 18 a share... -doji

50 cents, yeah I was thinking the same thing regarding osama, but it was the only thing I could come up with that would qualify as a single event of good news that could take a short by surprise, I don't think the markets blinked when saddam was caught. You have a good point on expect the...

50 cent, I've actually been wracking my brains the last couple of days trying to think up a scenario where being short overnight has anywhere near the risk of being long overnight. It's pretty easy to come up with situations that could panic the market and cause it to drop say 20% while I'm...

visiontrader, when you are looking at gaps to play do you target the nearest gap? For example, YM gapped up 30-40 yesterday, didn't fill and today it looks like it will open down about 20, would you look at yesterdays gap filling to 10586 or todays gap filling to 10675? Sort of...

Gordon, I find that I tend to get pretty twitchy on some of my swing trades where I'll bail out the first sign of trouble which has it's pros and cons, but tends to end up with me taking small losses on alot of trades that would have been big winners. Now alot of this was caused by me...

ok thanks, I was wondering if it was something along those lines. -doji

Ok I've been watching the tape on FINL (Finish Line) fairly illiquid stock. The Spread has been narrowing this afternoon from about 15 cents down to a penny. So while watching I see the following which I find strange. the offer is at 36.10 100 shares the bid has been moving up as all the offers...

NihabaAshi, Basically I'll enter the trade with a target at the close, with a stop of twice that, so I'm risking 2 points to make one. The exact level of the stop is gets modified by the proximity to resistance/support etc... but usually I start off risking 2 or 1.5 per point. From that point...

well todays gap filled nicely, too bad I chickened out of taking it for real, granted I took a simulated short on it with my same parameters and would have been stopped out at 634 so let me take that back, I'm glad I didn't take it. still it filled pretty decisively -doji

Vega, interesting. I just checked optionxpress quotes on spx straddles looks like I'm seering march at the money with a 1.80 spread as I move out from their the spread increases to 2.80 twenty points out. I'm seeing 4 bucks for the rest of the months. I'm just skimming and condensing here...

friday, end of month, traders looking to show some gains or minimize some losses for an otherwise choppy febuary?