ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

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Quote from futuman:

The last time you saw tha last 2 1/5 hours as clueless as today?
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This has been happening since Friday really.

Can't stand it when the market continually makes intra-period highs and lows (kinda of like a cheerleaders cone).

Right or wrong; it destroys my risk parameters, and thus my trades. :)
 
Quote from apex82:

Spectre...buy program into the close?
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sorry stepped out...kinda boring day.

the tone is bearish...got a hint of it since last nights AH trading.

but before nfp..or fomc I don't short unless significant premium.
 
Quote from Zodiac4u:

Spectre2007,

What was that saying again? New York likes to drive up the market at 3:30 on a cloudy day! Its cloudy!
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what've noticed over the years, if weather is good, markets tend to be optimistic, and if its dreary, pessimistic.

so just imagine all the financial employees heading to work in the morning, and how weather affects their psyche.

lets not forget chicago...
 
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what've noticed over the years, if weather is good, markets tend to be optimistic, and if its dreary, pessimistic.

so just imagine all the financial employees heading to work in the morning, and how weather affects their psyche.

lets not forget chicago.


Ah yes Chicago, Its funny how little things like seeing rain will make the grain markets open down only to recover later in the afternoon or market pull backs when brokers leave the pits at 10:00am to use the bathroom.
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most things in the universe are cyclical....

periods of uncertainty about the future give way to certainty...periods of pessimism give way to periods of optimism..though the media is plastered with news events of foreclosures or banking crisis, I have yet to see it in day to day affairs.

positive measures seem to be underway in terms of plans to freeze mortgage rates. GDP and unemployment figures are still relatively strong.

I would like to see the equity market fall apart, to buy in cheap before the next macro leg up, and I think most are waiting to do so too, ...it may not happen, and prices might crawl upward each month, forcing people to pay a premium.
 
Quote from Spectre2007:

I would like to see the equity market fall apart, to buy in cheap before the next macro leg up, and I think most are waiting to do so too, ...it may not happen, and prices might crawl upward each month, forcing people to pay a premium.

Back in the day when I was just getting my feat wet trading retail at Ira Epstein I met this old guy who was trading out of the same location and he said and I quote: learn a market and learn it well and you will make a very good living at it. With that thought in mind it does not matter what the world does. You just stay focused on what you do best: Trade
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Amazing because someone posted at 1008 or 10:08 PM an ES position and now it has been miraculously deleted.

I guess if it is a losing trade, pull it before someone sees it..

:D
 
..what do you think the probabilities are we traverse the NFP and FOMC volatility without touching 1490...again.

..I think Atticus might know some pricing on that. I put the probabilities at 5%.
 
Quote from optioncoach:

Amazing because someone posted at 1008 or 10:08 PM an ES position and now it has been miraculously deleted.

I guess if it is a losing trade, pull it before someone sees it..

:D
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was it a long or short?
 
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