Trading option to exit and reenter on pullback

[Billy]

Thanks, Billy. With the market range-bound since February I was hoping there might be a shorter-term timing tool that would help catch the 2-3 day swings in the IWM we've seen.

Adam,
When I trade mean-reversion strategies, an excellent indicator is powerratings from tradingmarkets.com
http://pr.tradingmarkets.com/
I can't access it right now, but you have access to 5 free tickers a day. Try IWM, chart it and see that the signals have been perfect. However my experience is that it leads you to huge drawdowns at trend reversal/inflection points, just like happened in early September 2010 when it took 3 weeks after the start of the rally for the overbought/sell signals to disappear.
Billy

[adam ali]

Got it. While I sort of figured the answer was the same, i.e., I'm chasing after something that really doesn't exist or has too great an opportunity cost, I thought I'd pose the question anyway. Thanks for your patience in exploring this idea with me.

[Sandy]

My concern is if we get rangebound market for long time. Yr 2004 and 2005 was rangebound years. One needs a lot of patience to sit and wait until exit signal.