CL Redux

Quote from trader198:

that is diff-month's spread. May CL is a little different with June CL, and son on. I always trade the current month, do not pay much attention to other months' CL (not actively traded, low volume, hard to trade).
No offense to you personally but this goes squarely back to the same gripe that I made some time ago. No doubt, using the front month is your best bet, but it only shows you the last 20 days. That is, only the last 20 days of data is considered accurate since CL expires every month. That's hell not sufficient for me to draw informed decisions. Hence I'm forced to use the continuous chart.
 
Well shit i was not expecting that drop. My entire short position got covered at 83.14 when i wasn't looking.


Meanwhile, i now am stuck with 400 USO April 41 calls that i was using to hedge. Hope this SOB doesn't plummet overnight i definitely dont like being long. Makes me feel dirty.
 
Quote from HuggieBear:

Well shit i was not expecting that drop. My entire short position got covered at 83.14 when i wasn't looking.


Meanwhile, i now am stuck with 400 USO April 41 calls that i was using to hedge. Hope this SOB doesn't plummet overnight i definitely dont like being long. Makes me feel dirty.
You can always sell the globex open. It should make a sad attempt to take out todays high.
 
I think i will sell a few just to get to a neutral position...i just want to dump the calls at the open tomorrow and wait for another entry long or short.

I'd just hold the calls bare but i have a feeling it might tank
 
Anything is in the cards, but since we're so damn close to that trendline (see the chart above), I'm betting that these morons will do anything to get this baby up there and flush out the shorts before pushing her off the cliff.
 
I do not know what you want. if you just trade intra-day, former session's low/high is good enough, even half hour ago data is good enough, since what we as a trader need know is where it will be three minutes late or half hrs late, who cares those past data, those are opportunities lost. normally I will start to trade forward month contract around 18 of each month, then end trading it around new month's 18.

those major highs/lows are very important, but mean nothing if you just try to catch 0.1 or 0.3 point move





Quote from schizo:

No offense to you personally but this goes squarely back to the same gripe that I made some time ago. No doubt, using the front month is your best bet, but it only shows you the last 20 days. That is, only the last 20 days of data is considered accurate since CL expires every month. That's hell not sufficient for me to draw informed decisions. Hence I'm forced to use the continuous chart.
 
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