Quote from ljyoung:
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For fun here's another one. It is unusual (1/33 observations of GOOG over a period of 2 1/2 years) for a gap up not to be closed [when the premarket H is first, is < the prior day RTH H and the intraday RTH is first] by EOD and 26/33 times the gap is closed before 10:35. Today's AM gap up isn't closed as of 11:20 AM EDT. The caveat mentioned above holds here (and for anything in the market for that matter).
lj
Edit: Ooottss. That would be 2 1/2 years.
Yah. The market rules and predictions don't. Why the failure of this little pearl? ES isn't GOOG is the obvious one but the correlation between high beta GOOG and volatile ES is quite high (r2 is 0.7-0.8). The dV override would be my pick and of course, it was Turnaround Tuesday. Probabilities are by definition non-binary.
lj
Doh! How could I have not seen the fact that the CBCC numbers were better than expected was the factor of consequence (not!!!)