Today's Pivots

Discussion in 'Trading' started by waggie945, Jan 29, 2004.

  1. balda

    balda

    pivot points sucks for today
     
    #41     Jan 30, 2004
  2. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Why do you say that? Bounced off S1, met R at R1. On the NQ, anyway.

    Edit: Sorry. Make that "bounced off pivot".
     
    #42     Jan 30, 2004
  3. balda

    balda

    do not have enough screen space to watch all markets, only ES. And ES was wiggling around pivot all morning.
     
    #43     Jan 30, 2004
  4. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    I take it you trade only NYSE stocks?
     
    #44     Jan 30, 2004
  5. balda

    balda

    only ES
     
    #45     Jan 30, 2004
  6. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    You may want to think about tracking the YM, ES and NQ simultaneously. You can usually cue one off from another.
     
    #46     Jan 30, 2004
  7. The Pivots are working today.

    We are simply seeing a contraction in the range of trading which is not so surprising given the markets activity earlier in the week.

    :)
     
    #47     Jan 30, 2004
  8. Look at the weird spike down at 10360 on Globex how the cycle was finished (in counterclock path this gives a Feynman Local bottom at 10362 see same chart below posted yesterday and this time it's overshot by two points and not undershot by two points) :D

    As put in my guide : "during globex session future contract behaves as if it was the spot "

     
    #48     Jan 30, 2004
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    #49     Jan 31, 2004
  10. Waggie, could you explain your earlier comment about not using volume?

    When I was on the floor (ags), it made a huge difference whether, say, ADM was bid for 1000, or whether mainly the locals were bid for 50 here, 20 there, 35, somewhere else.

    Also, the locals were famous for running up the price on one lots to draw out paper from someone sitting behind a screen who didn't know how much real buying (in this case none) was behind the move.

    One of the challenges I've faced is trying to figure out how to trade off the floor without this kind of info. Maybe in a big, liquid market like the S&P this matters less?

    Thanks for any comments!
     
    #50     Feb 1, 2004