Don, Ya, I'm curious about the CBOE thing too (as you can well imagine). I've been eyeing IBM for the past few weeks and scalping for ~20 cents is almost like shooting fish in a barrel. Enlighten me oh Master of the trade...I must have been sleeping in class that day. Thanks, Jim
The traders in the IBM pit on the CBOE have a lot of money, a lot of clout, and they know a lot about trading...and have the ability to trade tremendous size. All this adds up to having the market somewhat dictated in a place other than the NYSE at times....and this is something we cannot "read" very well.
Check out http://www.daytradingstocks.com/stocklist.html for a nice list of wide range, large volume stocks. Both Nasdaq and listed.
"AOL, MWD, GS, LEH, GE, .....all good trading stocks" Hi Don. Why are these good stocks for trading? How do you play them? Strategy? Do they follow any indices? Thanks.
Large cap, medium beta, excellent volume, "readable" specialists - they all include the basics for tape readers: Short seller read, bid/offer gap plays (almost daily!), and they have enough "general interest" to have participation by many levels of "players" ...this is important to keep the activity during all trading periods. They'll follow the futures pretty well, and when they don't, you have even more valuable info (news, earnings, inside selling, whatever).... Hope this helps!!
I have been trading NVDA for a while, but i have to tell you NVDA is your best friend or your worth nightmare. I usually follow MACD to trade NVDA. I think NVDA have two good trading period one is at morning and one is around 2:00p.m.-3:00p.m. I usually do not trade at the last hour.