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Daily Commentary - Posted by on May 14, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Friday – May 15, 2009

On Thursday's session the bounce on the upside materialized as expected (see my postings Trading the Odds on Thursday – May 14, 2009), but the outlook for option expiration on Friday's sessions remains negative due to the fact that 1) the S&P 5

Studies - Posted by on May 14, 2009

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Does Sector Index Out- or Under-Performance Really Matter ?

There are a lot of adages in the market, and some are related to index out- and/or under-performance compared to other major market or sector indexes and the respective implications for the market's outlook over the course of the next couple of sessi

Daily Commentary, Studies - Posted by on May 13, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Thursday – May 14, 2009

On Wednesday's session the market confirmed it's historical (negative) tendency to close lower the session after the S&P 500 outperformed the $SPXEW S&P 500 Equal Weight Index by a wide margin of +1.17% on a single session and/or +0.75% on tw

Daily Commentary - Posted by on May 13, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Wednesday – May 13, 2009

Posting will resume from today onward, although the transition to Matlab® is far from being completed, but I'm at least able to produce most of the figures and stats (with respect to the quantity and hopefully quality as well) via Matlab as I'm able

Daily Commentary - Posted by on May 4, 2009

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Blogging suspended for a couple of days

Dear reader, due to the fact that I've started a platform transition to Matlab® today blogging will be suspended for a couple of days (unfortunately I've to assign priorities because to manage 8 hours of trading a day plus the respective trading pr

Daily Commentary - Posted by on May 2, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Monday – May 4, 2009

Trading on Friday was very light, although the S&P 500 posted another higher close despite the negative setups which were triggered at the close of Thursday's session which indicated at least a limited upsided potential (but one might regard a ga