Monday call! Up or down?

We appear to possibly be going into a pattern of higher VIX and larger whipsaw days where the Dow can open sharply Down and be positive by the AM Reversal Period
(10:15am to 10:45am) and then continue up until the PM Reversal Period (2:15pm to 2:45pm) and finish the day down.
The other side of the coin to higher VIX whipsaw days is to open sharply Up, head lower in the AM Reversal and recover in the PM Reversal period.

Higher Volatility, Whipsaws and Big Reversals is the only way my trading system works, using
deep discounts on the option entry prices in short term mico-trends.
Unless the market goes at least modestly positive tomorrow, my puts will not fill.
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@jeffalvinson ...just curious, since I swing trade ATM options. When you say "deep discounts on the option entry price ". What are you referring to ?
 
@jeffalvinson ...just curious, since I swing trade ATM options. When you say "deep discounts on the option entry price ". What are you referring to ?
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Signal
Date...Option..Prev.Open.High.Low.Close
02-02.*FEB278C 5.85 5.12 5.12 2.40 2.40
2018...*FEB273P 0.70 0.97 2.32 0.88 2.32
Call= 0 / Put= 8 TE=8P-4 (Trading Edge 8 Put Sequence No. 4)
FEB273P Buy 1= 1.75 Sell Limit=2.45 / Buy 2=1.45 Sell Limit= 2.05 Stop= 1.25
 
Big money traders, just like us small ones, want volatility. Which way doesn't matter at all.
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I totally agree with you SunTrader!
Long Term Buy and Hold Investors do not want volatility. They want their 401k's and IRA's
to go up strong and smooth like these past 8-9 years.
But actual experienced traders (this is called Elite Traders isn't it? or did I accidently log into that knitting forum again!) go with the current micro trend (up or down) and want volatility so we can get improved entry points from large intra-day movement.

Micro Trend
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It is ok sir. It frees up my overnight capital to try new things, while continuing my old track of long-term long holding. By getting out now on those two nasty oopses, I have preserved capital to try to make it back in other ways. In the meanwhile I have a June YM long that is down 900 points or so. I may need to do some fancy footwork here, but I am confident I can recover these losses by end of second quarter. Just need to be one with Pai Mei.

Ah yes, the legendary and elusive Dim Mak death touch.
 
666 is the Mark of Beast and I have no idea why this would play out as it has. Very strange.

To note - No matter what we think we know, there are groups working the market that we have no idea about (their advantage is that they have been doing this for a long time.) Why they might find it amusing that the DOW would be down 665.75 is beyond what I will ever know.

Monday will make The Super Bowl look like dukey.

Life is good when you are entertained and having adventures. Good bless The Stock Market.
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Actually, AnnR , that was a rounded up number [666LOL] , to be accurate+ that surprized me. NOT that DOW/DIA did that , but that it did not happen in JAN,LOL Hardly ever does DIA do better than SPY, so DIA seemed fake move up somewhat to me, OK on bull market tax cuts..... Looks like they buying QQQ again+ selling GE again. NOT a prediction, those are trend comments:cool:
 
Yes I did look at them far out, and saw the big crashes down. They did happen over a very short time-frame, and this matched them relative to where they were before the crash. Percentage-wise is where I have the worry. This drop is a piddly 5% over the week but is still a "crash" in every sense of that word. If it were to match the larger crashes percentage-wise DOW would go down another 5000 points. This is the big worry I currently have.

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I see your point Onight; Im not worried about it because DIA hardly ever does better on upside than SPY, Looks like they still buying QQQ/tech stocks + selling GE. Some female reporter on the radio explained it ''a strong lady left the market'' LOL Selling GE ,cause a strong lady left ; actually some have been selling GE since 2016 LOL-LOL:caution::caution:Not a prediction.......
 
Oh, and Monday? I can't-in-good-conscience call.
We're about where the top of a two-year SPX trend would be
(~2730-ish), but with a brick-on-a-spring pendulum in mind, the closer we get to that trend, the more likely a turn back up. "In real life" I would think that breaking 2700 tomorrow was not an unreasonable thing, but given the last 2 months, I don't think breaking above 2800 is out of the running either. So, "Monday?" Nope. A coin flip.:cool:

:vomit:
:wtf:
I'm feeling like I need to apologize to somebody, somewhere, for something I didn't know that I did. :confused:
Excuse me while I check the market.
:vomit:

Well, one thing though: with this outrageous vol, at least there are places to go.
{cue very weak :fistbump:, very half-hearted :thumbsup:}

Luck and grace, all.
 
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