Wall Street closed

sculptor66 · Oct 29, 2012

Overnight equity index trading in Chicago ist actually open. So, if someone needs to hedge or close their positions... this is the time to do it.

atticus · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from failed_trad3r:

Shorts will be in for a world of pain when we open up 20 ES

Or down 10 as of last trade. Good call bro.

colonial dr · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from ElCubano:

I feel bad for those of you who have not prepared and Im not talking about getting $60.00 out of your ATM. Just the fact that you are in the most densely populated part of the country and may be without service of anything for any amount of time is a scary thought. I wish you guys the best of luck. Please take this seriously.

Meh. If I was in CT now, gas in the 5 year old Gallardo is all that would matter.

Maybe perhaps some .40 in the magazine too............

tracer619 · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from gkishot:

So what, every financial company gives to it's employees remote access from home. Weather conditions are not excuse for the markets to be closed. Everything shorsuld be virtual nowadays, after all today is not 1888.

everthing should be virtual.we don't even need a NYSE .the powers that be don't want to change.

Nobody remembers the storm in 1992?that was much more severe than this one.can't remember which day of the week it hit.i don't recall anything shut down then.

Im just outside of NYC.Its not that bad.some wind at rain.no reason to close the city

colonial dr · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from tracer619:

everthing should be virtual.we don't even need a NYSE .the powers that be don't want to change.

Nobody remembers the storm in 1992?that was much more severe than this one.can't remember which day of the week it hit.i don't recall anything shut down then.

Im just outside of NYC.Its not that bad.some wind at rain.no reason to close the city

The storm surge is expected to be large, that is the problem. Flooded subways and flooded Brooklyn (happening now) are bad.

The rain will freeze tomorrow night with the winter storm that will hit. :eek:

Clubber Lang · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from gkishot:

So what, every financial company gives to it's employees remote access from home. Weather conditions are not excuse for the markets to be closed. Everything should be virtual nowadays, after all today is not 1888.

Seriously? Do you have any clue wtf is going on here?

My apartment is ok because I'm 5 stories up, but I left my shore house earlier today when the power went out. The wind was unbelievable, and the hurricane was still far away. I give it 50/50 that my dock and wave runners are still there in the morning.

Hoping everyone is safe. Material stuff can be replaced. All the best ET'ers.

tortoise · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from atticus:

Well that's pretty infrequent, yes?

yes but there have been a number of more severe weather events over the last 125 years, none of which merited this kind of response. So I find it puzzling.

Maverick74 · Oct 29, 2012

Three feet of water on the floor of the NYSE. Talks about it not opening for a week!

tortoise · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from austinp:

Seriously now, all kidding aside... it's easy to tell who the non-U.S. based gamblers needing a fix are.

This is the biggest storm to hit the east coast in modern history... from North Carolina to Maine, inland to West Virginia and Canada.

Barometer readings are 27 and falling. And they think the biggest concern for NYC is their ability to push two-lot ES trades tomorrow? Seriously?

Hell, this storm has been widely tracked and pin-point forecasted for a week now. Anyone who isn't squared up and level on trades has zero excuses for that.

NYC saw Category 3 hurricanes in 1939, 1944, 1954 (August and September), as well 1960. And those are just the Cat-3s. Sandy was barely Category 1 before it got downgraded to a tropical storm.

Not only is this NOT the "biggest storm to hit the east coast in modern history", it's arguably not among the past century's top ten.

Why do people so love to hype this stuff?

Grandluxe · Oct 29, 2012

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