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nlnn this is a bird
Doesn’t every one look at the board? Maybe I’m missing something
I asked the Q...What’s changed? QQQ Vol 30M and its not even 10:00 pacific...had no response… If I have a question, this thread is usually a wealth of information. As I sit here scratching my head in confusion of why so much Vol. In the QQQ so early in the day, I guess I drifted to the edge of loosing my mind. (G)
Na... their busy
ya think?
You must be on everyone’s ignore list.
Was that a rhetorical question?
What’s changed? QQQ Vol 30M and its not even 10:00 pacific
Adjusted my ask for call order..Filled..Sell Call to Close 10 QAV-FW Limit Completed $2.55
Orders out QQQ swing-trade options
Sell Call to Close 3/11/2003 10 QAV-FW Limit $2.70 Day Cash
All Or None
Buy Put to Open 3/11/2003 30 QAV-RA Limit $3.70 Day Cash
All Or None
my shorts are packed after that last down turn common PPT step in...every body cover...i need to get out of these calls
get Tyler off the air I have calls I need 2unload
Sell Put to Close 30 QAV-RA Limit Completed $3.80
-Sold 30 contracts @ $3.80 on 3/10/2003 at 12:41 pm
I may have sold prematurely
Large orders being filled every time the qqq nears 24 upon further investigation http://finance.lycos.com/home/livecharts/default.asp?symbols=AMEX%3AQQQ
Set Int at 10… click study tab and choose money flow…They just wont leave it alone
Sell Put to Close 3/10/2003 30 QAV-RA Limit $3.80 Day Cash All Or None
Looks like the PPT may have stept out of the way, at least for today http://finance.lycos.com/home/livecharts/default.asp?symbols=AMEX%3AQQQ choose INT. "D" for day and click study and money flow to answere the Question, Are they doing it again 2day? Data not shown on chart below
It's the subdivision of the PPT "the media" Breaking news (NG)
I would imagine after or at the fry low
Plunge Protection Team... Its crap like this that just makes me want to give up
http://www.marketweb.com/commentary/rich0306.htm
The Short-Term Outlook: In this space last week we noted the highly unusual action of the McClellan Oscillator -- something we haven't seen during the period for which we have records going back to 1962, thanks to its inventor, Sherman McClellan: passage of the Oscillator up and down through the Zero Line five times in five days. (We wrongfully attributed it to Mercury being Retrograde, which is what often happens during those periods -- trouble is, as Fred Miranda corrected us, Mercury was NOT retrograde. It indicates unstable markets -- churning-- lack of direction and uncertainty. But it wasn't caused by Mercury being retrograde . . .
So -- there has to be another reason -- one more worldly, or less out-of-this world -- and indeed, there undoubtedly is.
In a word, it's "manipulation" . . . or some other euphemism like "stabilization" or "intervention". By whom ? By the "Powers-That-Be", of course -- the Fed, the Treasury, and their surrogate minions, the large banks and wire houses. It merely goes to show that the markets these days are by and large completely and totally rigged. When we have 2-3 days of decline that the Powers fear may lead to a crash, they send in the "Plunge Protection Team" in the persona of their surrogates -- Goldman, Merrill, Morgan-Stanley, etc -- to buy futures and options on the indexes and the handful of most heavily weighted stocks in those averages, and thus prop up the markets. Beginning first in the 1987 Crash, we've seen it happen more and more frequently over the past few years, so that now it's become almost routine. And the spins put on these "sudden" and "unexpected" events by wide-eyed market "commentators" are so far-fetched and ludicrous as to put Baron Munchausen to shame. Of course, it's always "for our own good", isn't it ??? ( -- or that of the private banking interests that own the Fed.)
As we said last week (and the week before that, and the week before that, etc.,etc., etc.), along with a lot of other technicians (too many, in fact, for our comfort) we're looking for the "nestng", or coming together at bottoms, of the 39-week and all shorter cycle lows later in March -- our exact target date is Friday, 3/21 (which also happens to be options expiration!) , but it could come earlier or later. We HOPE to see a Buy Spike on a McClellan Oscillator Bottom Formation at that low, but the present choppiness up and down above and below Zero MIGHT instead lead to a new Complex Bottom formation. That would be bad news. Any rally from there out of that formation would be a poor, short-lived, puny affair, and a new Complex Bottom would start the Bottom Formation clock all over again. Yuck.
In the meantime, again as we said earlier, with the markets changing direction not only every day or so but intraday as well, it's very hard to make money in the Rydex/ProFund funds, where for all practical purposes we can only get in or out near the close of the trading session. There's no way to make money in those funds without gambling and likely getting whipsawed, so until we get some sort of trend going that will last more than one or two days, our advice is to stay on the sidelines in cash.
What is good for you is good for you and I’m ok with that. I’m comfortable with any one expressing their ideas. I JUST CANT STAND ML's
keep posting
Thank you…bear I wanted to respond to that but was not sure how without exploding rudeness in all directions. Your's was most appropriate
Swing-trading QQQ Options Orders out and filled
Sell Call to Close 3/7/2003 10 QAV-FW Limit $3.20 Day Cash All Or None
ORDER FILLED
Buy Put to Open 20 QAV-RA Limit Completed $3.40 $80.00 $7280.00
-Bought 20 contracts @ $3.60 on 3/7/2003 at 11:20 am
delet
no fills
Also adjusted bid
Buy Call to Open 3/6/2003 20 QAV-FW Limit $2.80 Day Cash All Or None
Adjusted my bid
Buy Put to Open 3/6/2003 20 QAV-RA Limit $3.30 Day Cash All Or None
Ya gotta ask yourself; The market doesn't move as Britain calls for Immediate compliance, whats holding it up...It's hard to type while I'm holding my nose!!!!!!!!!
Question is can you trust this Russian website?
Geopolitical trading just mystifies me.
QQQ Swing-trading options
Orders out...Reaching for the discount. Adding to existing positions.
Buy Call to Open 3/6/2003 20 QAV-FW Limit $2.80 Day Cash
All Or None
Buy Put to Open 3/6/2003 20 QAV-RA Limit $3.40 Day Cash
All Or None
(lofthouse)
Generally I would consider volume greater than open Int. for ITM (in the money puts) IE; qqq 25’s Bullish but…this took place before 10:00 ……the qqq 20’s took place all Am. and at 10:00... I thought it was rolling from one to the other…but now I don’t have a clue… All and all It could be a number of reasons, a big number.
interesting option play vol.>open Int May qqq 20 and 25
20 QAVQS 0.4 0 0.3 0.4 10,030 150
25 QAVQY 1.9 -0.05 1.9 2 10,017 6,180
I hope my visualizations aren’t affecting yours in a negative way (VBG) thanks again
Interesting
came from http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID369857
see my previous post
call me crazy Buy Call to Open 10 QAV-FW Limit Completed $3.00 $60.00 $3060.00
-Bought 10 contracts @ $3.00 on 3/4/2003 at 3:46 pm
Buy Put to Open 10 QAV-RA Limit Completed $3.60 $60.00 $3660.00
-Bought 10 contracts @ $3.60 on 3/4/2003 at 3:55 pm
Feels like push starting a canoe, Is it pointless to sit here and watch the fed push start a bicycle up hill? I wonder if they have distributed the recent prop job at a profit yet. Lets call it an unauthorized loan from the investors of mutual funds ETC. How deep are their pockets? Will they continue this? If Bush can’t “save the world” He will have to save the economy if he wants his re-election. If he doesn’t get what he wants passed by congress, He can’t save the economy. So when does this so called (PPT) plunge protection team step out of the way and let nature take its course? Can you believe the nasd just turned pos+?
I was wondering where everyone went
Swing-trade QQQ options orders out
Buy Call to Open 3/4/2003 20 QAV-FY Limit $1.70 Day Cash
All Or None
Buy Put to Open 3/4/2003 20 QAV-RA Limit $3.00 Day Cash
All Or None
When and If one fills I will cancel the other
Either position will work for a dip my toe in position
Swing-trading QQQ is kind of dead; everything seams to be stuck in the middle. Don’t want to pay the premium for the puts and I’m not at all encouraged to buy calls. I was interested in puts this am but did not get a high enough spike on QQQ was looking for at least 25.75… the market is Denmark and its obviously rancid. With the feds propping it up and the negativity holding it down, they can’t seam to get “so called investors” to bite hard enough or long enough to hook another bogus rally. With March QQQ max pain at 25.00 and the $QQV.X swinging from 38 to 41 for the past six days negates my interest to get stuck with June options eroding on a daily bases while the crooks flat line the Q’s at 25.00 for three weeks. I need at least a dollar swing with the safe distance of June strike dates. I sold the remainder of my puts last week and I’m patiently waiting for the next set to show it’s self. Sitting this out for a while.