Missing Catalyst - December 14, 2011

[grems8544]

Can you provide some clues how one might trade the current double open Robot situation?

It is not easy. One is close to a stop out. And the other is only beginning. In fact, we are yet below the opening price if I recall correctly.

I know you intended this for Billy but let me add my two cents.

Treat each trade as a separate trade, unless you get exactly the same entries. Hence, if we hit the stop, you're out on that trade, but if we hit the entry of another signal, you're in. I set One-Triggers-Other orders so that the limit buy and the stop loss levels are automatically set when the level is attained.

Regards,

pgd

[nickola.pazderic]

Happy b-day for your son. I know it is important to you, too!

I didn't let myself get stopped out of TNA. I decided to be a tough guy (ha) and wait for a 15 minute bar to close at or below our stop. So I'm still in.

I want to short TZA very badly here. But TOS has no shares to share.

[manucastle]

Happy b-day for your son. I know it is important to you, too!

I didn't let myself get stopped out of TNA. I decided to be a tough guy (ha) and wait for a 15 minute bar to close at or below our stop. So I'm still in.

I want to short TZA very badly here. But TOS has no shares to share.

Hi nickola,

Try shorting TNA

Trev

[nickola.pazderic]

The point is: now would be the time to enter at a great entry point according to the robot signal of today. Conversely, one could also get stopped out. Turn around and hit the market with the same bid for the same number of shares just sold to the machines. This is confusing. In either case, we must retrace the loss to recapture the equity lost.

[nickola.pazderic]

Yes. Paul's answer was very good.

But, I'm tired of paying TOS to lose money.

[adam ali]

$SPX 10-day historical volatility set to fall under 20 for 1st time since August 3rd.

VIX under 25 (yesterday) normally a bullish sign??

Normally bullish signs?? What the heck is going on here?

[vfc10us]

$SPX 10-day historical volatility set to fall under 20 for 1st time since August 3rd.

VIX under 25 (yesterday) normally a bullish sign??

Normally bullish signs?? What the heck is going on here?

VIX seems to be above support at 25. Frankly, I'm not sure it matters. In my humble opinion, there's nothing more powerful than a declining or a rising 200ma. It takes a lot of courage to go long against a declining 200 day moving average without seeing some clear divergences on longer term (weekly) charts.