Opening Orders - 2008

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total_keops, do you routinely trade Opening Orders (OO) with correlated pairs? If so, can you tells us more about how you do that? Thanks.
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I dont yet, I asked people here if they where doing it to have any guidance. I also think it adds some complication to the process.
The way I see it for doing that you need to be prepared. Having a list of stocks that can be paired and you have to have a real time pair chart. The whole thing could be automated but it would be quite hard. Something like when I lost x $ you look for an extended pair... not sure it would work in real life (slippage, spreads, fills, delays, finding a pair for each stock, ...).

So, anybody routinely trading Opening Orders (OO) with correlated pairs?
 
Hey guys, remember what an opening order is and don't make it any more complicated than it has to be.

With an opening order, you are simply adding liquidity to the marketplace piggy backing the role of the specialist. If futures are opening higher, than you are providing shares for sale slightly above fair value. If futures are pointing lower, you are offering to buy slightly below fair value. And when you provide this service to the marketplace you hope the market will provide a fade or gap for you to capture your profits. And as we know this doesn't always happen.

Just take your loss or breakeven and get out. THe time to trade pairs intraday begins at 10:00-10:15. Its a totally different trade.
 
I tend to use opening orders to get into my pairs to get good spread prices. In my experience hedging with pairs is a good option and gives you time to deal with the mess that you've gotten yourself into, I have had some pairs that were opening blunders or imbalances that i could not limit close on for weeks before i got them off, however you can always scalp that position and make even more profit from it than if it had gone your way in teh first place on the open.
 
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