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Monday, February 29, 2016

New system

So Ive worked out a new thing Im doing. Here it is:
First indicator I am going to be using is the Money Flow Index along with the candlestick charts:


During the day, the only time I will make a move is when I get more than a 50 move to the upside or the downside. I circled in red the two times that this happened today. I actually forgot to circle the third time it happened: 20 minutes after the market opened and I faded the gap.
Now, once I get an alert from above, I then move to the chart below:

In the above chart I am reaffirming the signal with the RSI as the main lead, the candlesticks as the secondary, the the Coppock Curve and the EFI as the backup. I tried to whittle the day down to about 3 trading times that I will be trading in order to cut back on the indicator noise, or overload. The following will be my day:

1. I will sell my overnight option from the night before that I held overnight about 10 min after open. More on that in number 4 below.
2. 20 minutes after market open, the gap fade setup should be at its maximum with all the orders being executed in a glut stacked up from the premarket and the night before. I will place a contrary position at this peak and then exit that position about 20 minutes later.
3. I will then watch during the day for any Money Flow index/RSI signals and issue puts/calls from there.
4. 10 minutes before market close I will watch the Bars up Down Strategy: If I get a blue arrow as the last arrow in the last half hour, I buy a call before close and hold overnight and sell about 10 min after open. If I see a red arrow as the last arrow in the last half hour I will purchase a put before close and hold overnight and sell 10 min after open.

Thats pretty much it! I look foward for tomorrow to use this. Of course tonight there is no held overnight put/call so we will start with the gap fade (number 2 above).

Tradinginsider

exit both puts

now exit that put and dd put at the below:
QQQ MarWk1 103.5 Put 1.16 1.09 1.11 1,359
I shall return

Tradinginsider

DD on that morning put

I am going to DD on that morning put hopefully at the top of the gap fade:
QQQ MarWk1 103.5 Put 1.01 0.98 0.99 879
I will be back in 20.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

I am going to paper trade this gap fade...
QQQ MarWk1 103.5 Put 1.14 1.13 1.14 508
I will be back in 20 min...

Tradinginsider

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Sunday Update

Hello everyone, its been a few days. Ive been pouring over data and getting things together in order to get it together for monday, and here is what I came up with.

I suffered a epic collapse with the pre day sparkline/mirrors the day chart threory.
For 2 to three weeks, the sparkline was almost a MIRROR of what the market did later that day. I got all excited about it. How can such a thing exist? It was like getting tomorrows newspaper today. The only thing that was tapping me on the shoulder about it was this..if everyone can see what I can see then everyone is going to start doing what Im doing making the system inneffective. Imagine a rolling stock. For the last 3 months its been going down to 32 then rolling up to 38 2 weeks later then rolling back down to 32 and again and again. At first when you find it you are pretty excited. You backtested things and found that yes, this stock was rolling. You make money at it for about a month. Then you notice volume suddenly start to dry up. You bought it at 32 but then at 38 no one wants to purchase it from you. Then the stock stops rolling and things start getting random.
This means Everyone saw the pattern. Everyone wanted to buy at 32 but no one wanted to sell at 32 and no one wanted to buy at 38 but everyone wanted to sell. Boom. Ineffective, and suddenly the stock goes random: roll over.
So I believe I was a victim of this. Everyone caught on. So be it, Im not going to whine about it. It just went away like a puff of smoke.
But that's how trading it. You have to keep moving and sticking and finding things out, things you can use.
The original intention of this site was to bounce options: every day at 1045am I would seek out and find inefficiencies due to fear and greed and profit on them by using the most up or the most down lists for the day and depending on which way I think the market is going to go in the next 1 to 3 days using technical candlestick and indicator analysis.
So instead this is what Im going to be doing: I am going to be making 1-2 trades a day using in depth tech analysis live from the market floor 5 minutes bars along with some level 2 data. My trading window that I will be using:


Yes, this is a lot of data to be looking at, I have to filter a lot of infoAlong with this I will occationally make a trade and hold it overnight on the QQQ when the daily chart makes a call. One such time to make a trade is right at open in order to fade the gap. This will almost be a daily occurance and if nothing else happens that day, there will almost always be an open gap play. Then perhaps one or two other things during the day. By the way while you are following me, paper trade me. Do not put real money into this until I get this new thing ironed out. In looking at the chart above, its really easy to say, "Well here I would have done this, or right here I would have done that," but under real live fire, its tougher than it looks. If you want to see what this is like under live conditions, hold a piece of paper verticle wise up to the screen and pick any time in the graph above. Then make a call. Which way based on the charts? Now slowly start moving the page across the screen to the right to watch what actually unfolds and how your call does. Its not easy.
I am going to be continually testing new indicators attempting to get more of an edge and all the time keeping my eye on my money.
Amen. See you tomorrow at OPEN>yes. Open.

Tradinginsider

Thursday, February 25, 2016

ok guys, I just got great data. Will test on...

This was a very interesting experience today as I just got some great data and found some indicators that I will now try out tomorrow that I feel will give me a nice advance heads up before there are moves. And also, I figured that I will only be using call options for the most part on days when things appear to be moving upwards, and I have not figured out what I am going to be doing on days when the stock is moving down more in general. Lets take a look at the indicator I have figured out that I will be using today and look at what it would have done today (yes, it is backtested):

The above are live level 2 quotes going through a live 5 minute candlestick bar utilizing the RSI and WIlliams %R indicators which I feel give a great livetime forecast on the intraday movements. I look foward to using this tomorrow for the first time in my paper trading. I will need more data for a big down day however. I will assume the RSI will be working in reverse for such a day...as in I will be doing puts for the day instead of calls and everytime the RSI comes up over the 50 mark, then thats time to put option, much as everytime it dipped below the RSI (circled three times here above) I should have purchased a call option.

Tomorrow I will be out for the day and will return on Monday. This is when we take this out for a paper test drive.

Tradinginsider

Holy Shit! Runaway train

Glad we are paper trading this. You should see what just happened with the chart. It was a runaway train after a series of reverse double hammers. Now Im in again 3X put:
QQQ FebWk4 102.5 Put 0.39 0.37 0.39 4,254
Quotes as of 2/25/2016 1:59:07 PM ET
I will be back in 30 min

tradinginsider

DD paper trade on that last one

Ok, on that last one, I double down.
QQQ FebWk4 102.5 Put 0.53 0.51 0.52 3,602
Quotes as of 2/25/2016 1:23:58 PM ET

Will be back in 20 min.

Tradinginsider

New Trade

Here we go. Live info. Trade the following
QQQ FebWk4 102.5 Put 0.64 0.62 0.63 3,530
Quotes as of 2/25/2016 1:12:53 PM ET
Will be back 25 minutes

Tradinginsider

So: starting Monday

I am going to have a retool. I no longer will be looking at the premarket sparklines, instead I will be doing 5 minute candles to get an intraday picture of what the market is doing. I will be using live level 2 quotes and will be issueing a trade every 45 minutes or so.
Dont bail on me yet, this is a work in progress. But I am very confident that the level two quotes and live candlestick 5 minute chart will do very well, because I am very good at candlesticks, Ive studied them for going on 20 years now. I will do a few plays today on paper, just to get my feet wet.
Stay tuned today. About every 40 min or so.

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Losses...

We are taking some losses here. It turns out that the premarket sparkline just totally collapsed and is not following any longer. Strange: I saw nothing but correleation for 4 weeks and suddenly it stopped. Perhaps a lot of traders saw what I saw and that is what made it stop working.

Dump all positions. All of them.

I have a new angle. Candlesticks on a 5 minute intraday. I am going to follow that and give signals off of that. I will explain later in the trading day.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

We are going to hold those two options from yesterday and continue to chug foward. Today we are going to get in with a dayput:

QQQ Feb 2016 100.000 put (QQQ160226P00100000)

-OPR
0.98 Up 0.56(133.33%) 10:32AM EST
Prev Close:0.42
Open:0.71
Bid:0.96
Ask:0.98
Strike:100.00
Expire Date:26-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.71 - 1.04
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:10,079
Open Interest:20,278
Thats all for now, check back later.

Tradinginsider

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Thats all for today

Ok, so we are going to hold both those options for tomorrow and we will see what will happen with them, hopefully an up day.

See you guys tomorrow.

Tradinginsider

Hold both options overnight

Trying something out...hold both of these options today overnight and lets see what we come up with in the morning....

Tradinginsider

That drop was a bit steeper than thought...DD issued

I am going to go ahead and issue a DD on that call option, coming in again at a lower price...

QQQ Feb 2016 102.000 call (QQQ160226C00102000)

-OPR
0.94 Down 0.65(40.88%) 11:22AM EST
Prev Close:1.59
Open:1.49
Bid:0.92
Ask:0.94
Strike:102.00
Expire Date:26-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.86 - 1.50
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:1,916
Open Interest:6,034
Well see how that flies.

Tradinginsider

Daycall issued

This morning we get in at about 1.38
Prev Close:1.59
Open:1.49
Bid:1.34
Ask:1.42
Strike:102.00
Expire Date:26-Feb-16
Day's Range:1.34 - 1.50
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:340
Open Interest:6,034
We are going to hold this for about an hour...

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

checking the markets and what happened yesterday...


Tradinginsider

Monday, February 22, 2016

Heres my pic

I wont be around to tell you to get out of this, so at about 1:15-1:45 exit this position. Our in:

QQQ Feb 2016 103.000 put (QQQ160226P00103000)

-OPR
0.99 Down 1.01(50.50%) 10:04AM EST
Prev Close:2.00
Open:1.43
Bid:0.99
Ask:1.00
Strike:103.00
Expire Date:26-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.99 - 1.43
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:1,496
Open Interest:6,711
Watch the market, I will be attending to something else today. I will be back tomorrow.

Tradinginsider

Monday

Today: Get in about 10:45 with a put and ride it until about 1:30 in the afternoon and then sell it.
Sparkline says drop all day after the morning spike up.

I will be out of the loop today as I have an important appt in the early afternoon.

See you tomorrow.

Tradinginsider

Friday, February 19, 2016

Dump original call for a loss..looking at the data for later this evening

Exit that first option from this morning...

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

 -OPR  
0.13 Down 0.50(79.37%) 3:34PM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.11
Ask:0.13
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.11 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:26,540
Open Interest:15,326












I have a lot of data to sift through for Friday trading, post on this later tonight

Have a good weekend. Sat will go through todays trading to see whats what and where we are.

Tradinginsider

Exit that double down put call for profit

we exit that double down second put call for profit

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.35 Down 0.28(44.44%) 2:55PM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.32
Ask:0.32
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.14 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:21,607
Open Interest:15,326
We hold on to the original from early in the day

Come on back for updates!

I just caught something..options expiration day

This same problem happened to me last Friday..the sparkline did not lead the market day chart.
I think this is due to price manipulation by the big boys keeping the stock price near the biggest open contracts strike price so they dont get called out or lose money.

More on this later tonight. Very interesting. At the very least, I take a hit today and from now on I trade Monday-Thursday. Insider manipulation is only fun when you are on the right side of it. Perhaps I can trade on friday. Ill just look at where the biggest glut of open interest is at what strike price for the QQQ and steer right for it.

More later. We will see if we can pull this out today. See you in about 1 hour.

Tradinginsider

We are going to go for it

The Sparkline is diverging off whats happening today. I see that things look like they should drop after 12 noon today (central 1pm ET) so I am going to purchase a DD (second put same strike lower price to average down) here is my in:

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.27 Down 0.36(57.14%) 12:11PM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.25
Ask:0.26
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.19 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:12,330
Open Interest:15,326
Now as I see it one of two things will happen..QQQ will continue to wrachet up, or it will turn and follow the sparkline down later this afternoon.

Tradinginsider

Possible climb

There is a possible climb until about 12:15 central 1:15ET. We are going to hold the put for now and see if that is the case. If that is the case, I will double down again to the put side.

Tradinginsider

Exit double down for profit

We exit that second DD put for profit...

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.53 Down 0.10(15.87%) 11:07AM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.50
Ask:0.53
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.31 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:4,488
Open Interest:15,326
Still watching the first...

Tradinginsider

One more

Same option, going to double down in order to mazimize the sparkline....

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.41 Down 0.22(34.92%) 10:29AM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.41
Ask:0.43
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.36 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:2,072
Open Interest:15,326
I will be watching this closely like a stalker watching Gweneth Paltrow....

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

Here is how we are going to open it:

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.65 Up 0.02(3.17%) 10:16AM EST
Prev Close:0.63
Open:0.80
Bid:0.64
Ask:0.67
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.54 - 1.00
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:1,670
Open Interest:15,326
We are going to hold this for about 45-50 min then REVERSE it with a call option.

Tradinginsider

Thursday, February 18, 2016

I watched the Bernie Madoff movie the other night

And after watching, I realized, hey, why does a guy who steals from the 1% get 150 years in prison, and big wall street companies steal more than 10x what he stole from the 99% and they all walk?

Well here is an interesting Rolling Stone article that will shine the light on the financial abuses that the 99% is taking: (Very interesting read. This will tell you what is what in respect to you and your 99% money)
                  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216

This is why I dont like giving my money over to a financial house, a mutual fund operator, a broker. It turns out no one gives a FVCK about you or your money. Everyone is in it for themselves and thier bonus. And if fields of people gotta get burned so an exec can make a 200 million dollar bonus, then hey, thats life in the big city. Its like buying food in the late 1800s. Who knows whats really in the can?

This is why I like to be in charge of my own money. I move it. I invest it. I dont get involved with derivatives, risky investments, big investment houses that turn around and invest my money in the housing market then lose everything and have to get bailed out by the government. Be your own man and dont go to someone else with your money and your hat in your hand.

Tradinginsider

What if?

The below article is a re-post from one of my posts from 2015. Enjoy!



Every now and then I hear a story about a guy who got in a stock at the right time and it always makes me shake my head in wonder. I have this cool teacher at school that just so happened to sink a couple of g into amazon in 1997 who is now sitting on quite a bit of money. At the time people were telling him it was a stupid move and to take his money out while he still can. 3 years later people started to shut up about him taking his money out and instead were amazed at his investing genius.
Then I started to think about myself and what I was investing money it in 1997. FFTI. I had a few grand and I decided that I would look at the stock list in Investors Business Daily and find a good solid stock with ratings of 99 98 99 and purchase it and start writing covered calls on it. Sounded like a solid plan. I was pretty stoked about it...stocks that had that kind of rating in the back of IBD were pretty much gold. So I put my money in my account, purchased the stock, and started writing covered calls. The first month I got a 15% return. Pretty solid, I thought. The second month suddenly the stock started to drop. I couldn't write a call because I was below my cost. The third month the stock had an earnings call and suddenly there were a few announcements about thier core operations and the stock started to drop even further. Grimly I watched as the stock suddenly dropped to 50% what I purchased it at and then went out of business, only to have its pieces gobbled up by another company at a fraction of the price.
I then learned that Investors Business Daily and the Wall Street Journal had about as much knowledge about stocks as any other guy on the street. They only had information that was public and were working with information that was released by companies that was carefully looked at before released. FFTI knew that was coming. The only people that were privy to it were officers in the company.
My friend was investing in a finance company whereupon suddenly they were beset by an accounting scandal. Turns out they were keeping two sets of books so the CEO and another officer were personally bleeding the company: building mansions in Florida, cars, personal accounts, and the company was suddenly found to be bankrupt. Even though it was illegal as all hell and the authorities went after the officers of the company, my friend still got screwed with worthless stock notes at pennies on the dollar. To this day? Sorry dude. Investor beware. Everyone that held stock sued and everyone basically ended up with blue note (IOU) certificates that paid almost nothing.
This is why I tend not to own stock or options for more than 3 weeks. If I did invest, I would try to be like Warren Buffet and invest for the long term..decades. Instead, I invest between a window of 3 days to 3 weeks only due to this chaotic uncertainty. How could you really ever get in bed with a stock without really being able to do an in depth background check and find out information that only truly an officer of a company would know? Such as really knowing what is going on with WorldCom or Enron in 1999? Millions of investors lost money. Some their life savings. Never put it all in one basket. This is why I like the QQQ or other indexes, such as SPY. They are a mixture of lots of different stocks..
So every now and then while I am waiting for something big to go down in the market (such as the drop thats about to happen) I like to play the time machine game. If I had a time machine, what stocks would I go back and purchase and when? For this game, we will need one simple tool here in 2015: hindsight. And we will be using yahoo finance and its chart plotting widget.

Yup. Looks like my teacher was in the right place at the right time with Amazon in 1997.


THE MAIN THING YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU TIME TRAVEL 

There are two time points you should be aware of: 1986 and 1997. The first will require that you have 2 thousand dollars to invest in 1986. So lets say that you go back to 1981 and you are say, 12 years old. Time to start hustling, kid. Start mowing lawns, and start carrying golf bags for middle aged guys wearing bad plaid golf pants. Start saving that birthday and bar mitzvah money. Because you have a couple of years to come up with 2-3 grand which shouldn't be that hard. I knew one guy who was double bagging 18 holes as a caddy earning about 60-100 dollars a day as a caddy in the early 90s. That figure due to inflation will probably be 30-60 dollars a day in the early 80s, but that will do. Get out there and hustle.

Microsoft had their IPO in March 1986. I remember being on a college tour while I was looking for the college I was going to attend in spring '86 and when I was looking in one of the laundry rooms there was a tech magazine with a young guy on the cover: Bill Gates. He was about 26 years old and how he had big plans. Just another geeky tech guy I thought. Had no way of knowing that his operating system would take over the planet. What did I know. Well the second time through with my time machine, I now know everything. So this is what to do when you are looking around for this stuff. Go to Yahoo Finance, type in the ticker symbol of the stock you want to look at and then on the left column look under charts, where it says 'interactive'. Click that.
Right above the stockchart there will be things you can click like 1 day, 5 day, 1 month, etc. Click 'Max'. This will display the stock growth from the beginning of its IPO until the present day. It will also display the price and percentage change adjusted for its current stock price after splits, etc. So take your mouse and hover it over the chart without clicking and you can see that the interactive chart as you move the mouse will go like an x-y axis and display price at whatever time you hover over.
As you move all the way back to the beginning, it will adjust the stockprice in relation to the stock price as it is now after splits, dividends, etc, so even though say Microsoft had an IPO price of 21 dollars per share, it had split 9 times, so looking at the chart you will see that it on the chart has an adjusted starting price of .089 per share. Adjusted, that's like a micro penny stock.. now drag the mouse on over to its peak in Dec 99 and you can see that the interactive widget chart says that the stock has grown 61,347% since its IPO. That would mean whatever money you put in during that first day of trading, multiply it by sixty one thousand three hundred forty seven percent for a stupidfying return rate. Now grant you when you were 18 like I was you were just concerned about going out with your friends and scraping together some gas money for your car and going to concerts. But that's what the time machine is for. We purchase in this example, $2000 dollars of Microsoft stock on its IPO date in March 1986.
The second stock that we are going to Parlay this with is Amazon. Amazon had its IPO in April 1997, so we are going to have to sell our Microsoft stock before the peak in '99 in order to be ready to plug the money into Amazon. Remember, after 1999 Microsoft's main growing period was over, and things just kind of walked sideways through the two stock market meltdowns of the 2000's. Amazon on the other had had one of the largest growth periods in IPO history.
So we would exit Microsoft in April 1997 with a 15, 887% return. Lets plug our $2,000 dollars into that: After holding Microsoft for 11 years while it takes over the planet we now have in our trading account $316,000. Not too shabby. But the magic is just beginning. We roll our 316 grand into Amazon where we get in at 23 dollars per share at the end of the trading day. Here is an article about the first trading day of amazon. We then hold amazon until its current peak (as of this writing) at Dec 2013, where we have a return since inception of 26,486%. We then do the math with our $316,000 and we now have $83,424,000. MSFT (1986) [2,000]>AMZN(1997)[316000]=83424000.
Hindsight is easy. Building a time machine is hard.
Makes me think of how I would have lived with that kind of money, how hard I would have partied. Better yet, what kind of things could I have accomplished freed from the banal constraints of being forced to work for my nut 8-10 hours a day? Not only are you working towards these hours, but additional hours of your day are also requisitioned toward support for these main work hours that you are actually working. You have to factor in travel to and from work. Getting ready in the morning.
Sleeping early so that you can get up in the morning. Looking at it, it almost gets to 11 hours a day. Being feed from this can let you go up higher on the self realization ladder to do the things that will make you a better person (in theory) rather than doing the things you have to in order to survive, to support your Maslownian hierarchy of needs. Looking at the hierarchy people are lucky enough to reach the love/belonging level, and few go above. Where are you on the above chart, and what can you do to climb higher?
For most people this involved the freeing factor, money. Money increases options and opens channels, freeing you to work on your higher levels.
Time Travel would sure be a great way to kick that in high gear. Just be careful when the time police come after you.

Keep the safety off,
Mark


www.the1045report.com

Just wanted to remind you that there is a graphical representation of this blog at the1045report.com. Every call I make is also on that board (which links back to this blog).

So go ahead and check that out. As for today? No more orders as there is not a clear candle formation on the chart.

See you Friday,

Tradinginsider

Exit both dayput options (the DD) for profit

This should clean up my overnight call oops plus put us in the green for the day, I will have to take a look at the numbers. Now is a good time to get out. My out:

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.66 Up 0.24(57.14%) 1:49PM EST
Prev Close:0.42
Open:0.30
Bid:0.62
Ask:0.62
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.30 - 0.66
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:5,878
Open Interest:15,197
That should be all for today, unless I find something in the last 15 minutes of trading that piques my interest. Thanks for going along for the ride today.

Tradinginsider

This is a good video

This is a video about trading and I find that it contains a lot of truths that I eschew in the contrarian trading paradigm. Take a minute or two to watch this. Some very good points.

Get in again dayput option DD

Today we Double Down on that put option. Is about at the same price. Hopefully the sparkline is correct and we see some downward action today. Below is our in for the second time:

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.54 Up 0.12(28.57%) 11:12AM EST
Prev Close:0.42
Open:0.30
Bid:0.52
Ask:0.54
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.30 - 0.62
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:2,715
Open Interest:15,197
I will be watching the market.

Tradinginsider

dump yesterdays overnight option

Dump that option from last night our exit is below at about minus 60 percent, but dont worry we are going to Double down on an put option today to get that back.

QQQ Feb 2016 102.500 call (QQQ160219C00102500)

-OPR
0.28 Down 0.46(62.16%) 11:09AM EST
Prev Close:0.74
Open:0.87
Bid:0.28
Ask:0.30
Strike:102.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.28 - 0.88
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:5,741
Open Interest:14,032
A bit of chop, but we will see what pulls through. Next update is the put option to get into.

Tradinginsider

Sparkline says down today

The Sparkline is contradicting last nights order. However, I am going to follow the sparkline...below is my entry

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 put (QQQ160219P00101500)

-OPR
0.58 Up 0.16(38.10%) 11:00AM EST
Prev Close:0.42
Open:0.30
Bid:0.48
Ask:0.49
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.30 - 0.58
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:1,801
Open Interest:15,197
I will stay on the market watching..

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

I am checking the market right now and seeing what is happening. I notice that it is opening a bit lower. I will be back in 35 min with my day call/put

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

hey everyone

Here is an option trade to hold overnight. I was looking at the candlecharts and there is a good opp to purchase this and hold overnight as there have been 2 upward gap up white candles in a row (Loose Candlestick Trading parlance) and I feel there is a good chance for a nice gain by tomorrow. Our in is below:

QQQ Feb 2016 102.500 call (QQQ160219C00102500)

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0.74 Up 0.61(469.23%) 2:12PM EST
Prev Close:0.13
Open:0.18
Bid:0.73
Ask:0.75
Strike:102.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.17 - 0.78
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:8,531
Open Interest:6,871
Also I am going to be doing some outlining this evening on my trading mehology including some charts.

Have a nice day, and come on back in about 3 or 4 hours for that post. I have some things to do today including heading on out to the health club to lift some wieghts. Healthy body=healthy mind=good grasp on the markets.

Tradinginsider

27% gain is 27% gain.

I think I am going to go ahead and take the money. Below is my out:

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 call (QQQ160219C00101500)

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1.40 Up 1.05(300.00%) 12:34PM EST
Prev Close:0.35
Open:0.58
Bid:1.39
Ask:1.40
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.49 - 1.40
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:2,970
Open Interest:8,644
I got in at about 1.01. and exiting at 1.40. Pretty good day.

Tradinginsider

Keep holding...doing good

Ok, we might just have a homerun on our hands today, we are going to keep holding this.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

Sparkline says big recovery day..Our in is below

QQQ Feb 2016 101.500 call (QQQ160219C00101500)

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1.00 Up 0.65(185.71%) 10:58AM EST
Prev Close:0.35
Open:0.58
Bid:1.00
Ask:1.02
Strike:101.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.49 - 1.02
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:1,835
Open Interest:8,644
I will be online watching.

Tradinginsider

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

I now understand what happened

I have just adjusted my time points. We should be good for tomorrow..I misestimated the graphing correlation points between the sparkline and the daychart. I will update on todays chart and sparkline with a graphic later tonight.

Tradinginsider

sparkline fail...

Exit. Here is the order..

QQQ Feb 2016 99.500 put (QQQ160219P00099500)

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0.78 Down 1.50(65.79%) 3:27PM EST
Prev Close:2.28
Open:1.17
Bid:0.77
Ask:0.79
Strike:99.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.75 - 1.44
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:5,126
Open Interest:6,584
I am going to pour over the data today and see what went wrong, will update in about three hours.

Tradinginsider

"Sonofabitch"

"Sonofabitch, will you DROP? Are you just going to race all the way up to the close?" is a statement I just caught myself saying.
I have to realize that there is no winning 100% of the time. Some piece of news must have hit the stock trading floor to make the daytrading leave the premarket sparkline. If you just had a printing press making money, you would be bored. At least there is some excitement in this. We will hold and see how this pans out in the next hour....

Tradinginsider

Double down new entry point on that dayput

Ok, I am trying something here and I am going to double down my entry is below

QQQ Feb 2016 99.500 put (QQQ160219P00099500)

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0.81 Down 1.47(64.47%) 2:13PM EST
Prev Close:2.28
Open:1.17
Bid:0.83
Ask:0.83
Strike:99.50
Expire Date:19-Feb-16
Day's Range:0.78 - 1.44
Contract Range:N/A - N/A
Volume:4,098
Open Interest:6,584
We are going to hold this until almost close. Suprizingly, this option has not eroded as much as I thought it would during the day.

Tradinginsider