It seems like picking tops and bottoms but with an added element of a decaying straddle...I suppose if you do it enough that the straddle's...
I think worrying about HFTs in general is pretty paranoid. Aren't there HFTs designed to spoof limit orders to fool the other HFTs? If an HFT's...
Those 1 tick profit trades; are those scratched trades or are you actually taking profit at 1 tick?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Guessing he kept betting on the bottom that didn't come until Monday morning. SPX ranged about 40 points 9/9/2016...he lost about 200....
Why did you start with futures? With a single lot of SPY you would've been trading the same market for 1/5 of the risk. Little late now as...
You should design a machine to take advantage of this knowledge.
I find it harder to believe that any collection of markets exist in their own vacuum.
I accept that there are no guarantees whatsoever, and that any answers or explanations can be wrong or nonsensical and must be taken with a grain...
I'd rationalize that someone would use line charts over candlesticks if they found the candlesticks too noisy and preferred to evaluate only the...
:-/ An empty statement, as that is what every technique under the sun is meant to do, and something presupposed before the question. Astrology...
Trend lines show a pattern? I thought patterns show trendlines. Sure, "limiting" may have been poor word choice. Perhaps "significant" may be...
Support and resistance is rationalized by the idea that certain areas of high activity, being significant levels in people's positions, continue...
I guess I would be interested in seeing short term support and resistance. A daily volume profile could show me where there were strong lines...
So you don't find volume histograms useful? This just seems like a deeper version of a volume profile.
I know there are a few different softwares that show you volume at each tick within each bar, sometimes even showing whether the transactions...
Google Black Scholes. Not for the faint of heart/math. http://www.fintools.com/resources/online-calculators/options-calcs/options-calculator/...
Depending on your view of efficient market theory, everything is already priced for an expected outcome. All trading is based on the idea that...
The pre-earnings volatility drives options prices up; the option sellers know the move will be just as wild as the buyers want it to be. If I had...
Bit of a chicken and egg situation with arbitrage, ain't it?
What does the index follow? ;)
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