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Intraday Stats - Posted by on June 18, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Thursday – June 18, 2009 -Asian Markets-

On Thursday Asian markets are currently trading (partly significantly) lower at time of writing. Japan's Nikkei 225 is down -1.39%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down -1.36%, Sydney's ASX All Ordinaries Index is down -0.43% and Korea's KOSPI Index

Daily Commentary - Posted by on June 17, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Thursday – June 18, 2009

Wednesday's session marked the second session in a row where the market (S&P 500) -although not to the same extent as on Tuesday's session, and although the SPY posted at least an intraday high +0.75% above Tuesday's close- did not really comply

Daily Commentary - Posted by on June 16, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Wednesday – June 17, 2009

Tuesday's session was one of those days when the market (S&P 500) reminded us that we're always talking about (and trading) probabilities and odds, not certainties. The SPY (S&P 500 ETF) opened higher +0.36% (which almosted marked the high f

Intraday Stats - Posted by on June 16, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Tuesday – June 16, 2009 -intraday update-

A preliminary note: Due to the fact that I regularly won’t be able to prepare a posting with stats and tables during the final minutes of the regular session (which was -understandably- desired by some of my readers), and if you’re interested in

Daily Commentary - Posted by on June 16, 2009

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Option Expiration Weeks and (Big Down Days on) Mondays

A preliminary note: Due to the fact that I regularly won't be able to prepare a posting with stats and tables during the final minutes of the regular session (which was -understandably- desired by some of my readers), and if you're interested in if

Daily Commentary - Posted by on June 15, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Tuesday – June 16, 2009

On Monday's session the market (S&P 500) did exactly what is was supposed to do based on those setups which were trigged on close of Friday's close, mainly: ‘the S&P 500 closed up while NYSE Advancing Issues/Declining Issues and NYSE Advan

Daily Commentary - Posted by on June 15, 2009

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Trading the Odds on Monday – June 15, 2009 -intraday update-

With NYSE Advancing Issues/Declining Issues < 0.15, NYSE Advancing Volume/Declining Volume < 0.1 and S&P 500 down more than -2.5% at time of writing (02:35 PM CET), a buy signal would be triggered at today's close (assumed everything uncha