I've noticed Monday's are generally crappy for the market. Makes sense I suppose, since people don't work weekends and any news are more likely to be bad news. Also, political uncertainty is poison to a bull market.
my method was tweaked and perfected in this low volume/low volatility time frame. It works, but I do recognize that some trades just don't have the volume to give me the follow thru up/down from entry point. I use a volume criteria for entry, but it is relative volume, not absolute on the ES.
I get my fills on MGC on forward months with no problem. Volume there is grossly low. So what is the problem here?
Why do you guys think volume is declining in the markets? Im genuinely curious. Does this mean perhaps that perhaps there is less participants in the markets?
wow,,, now that is a terrific boy isn't that the million dollar question. HMMM, there could be so many reasons. I put up a link that explained that volume of common stock trades was down, but volume on options was way way up. But I do not think that is it, not that many people buy options. I think people just don't have the funds to invest, and so yes there are fewer market participants IMO. Of course, that does not account for the massive Institutional volume and I expect they are still in the game.
Well I figure people nowadays have more funds to invest with the economy doing better at least by the numbers. Unless the answer is that the people who had funds to invest already invested and there is simply isn't much new money coming in.
When you have lemons make lemonade. I am making a killing selling straddles. Up over 40% this year. I could quit and take the rest of the year off