Recent content by Aston01

Kind of a general question, but from time to time if I happen to catch anyone of the many financial channels prior to the market opening it seems like they are always trying to predict which direction the market is going to open based on the futures market or the PreMarket. Is there any...

I the situation above assuming a typical daily range of $4 with the current volatility levels the above stock that closed the night before at $100 and the next day gaped up opening at $105. How would I go about determining determining what a 1 standard deviation range based on the new opening...

Thanks Rhody...just wanted to know what to expect

I know there are all different levels of complexity when it comes to trading options, but as a rule of thumb for the less complex strategies such as buying a Call or a Put (to be traded not as a Covered Call or Protective Put) what do most brokers require to authorize an account for such use ?

I have read a fair amount about how liquid Forex is and the massive quantities moving around in it, but I just can't seem to nail down an definitive answer as to the size and liquidity of the Options market. Could someone possibly clarify a couple of things for me if possible? 1.) Due to all...

Has anyone come across a good technique for smoothing the color defining transitions without disturbing the entry and exit points of blatant directional changes? I am sure inevitably someone is going to come on here and say that further smoothing of an MA will lessen false signals but delay...

I have been using the Hull Moving Average to identify changes in trend direction, but I am having some issues with chop (i.e. excessively fast alternating buy/sell signals). I understand there are different types of MA and the Jurik MA is pretty highly praised, but it seems like I am missing the...

I am aware that there are a lot of things that are subjective, but when it comes to trading options I was wondering which platforms are at the top of the list? I recently signed up for eSignal Premier Plus w/ their Intraday Options History Add on. I really like the Intraday Options History add...

I am not particularly looking to trade the news, but I figured that people that did would have a better idea of the more accurate news sources out there . In effect its their business to be in the know.

A lot of times you see the news of a particular event come out and the stock has already reacted, so watching CNBC just isn't going to cut it for someone that makes their living trading the news. I know professional traders use a Bloomberg terminal @ about $1600+ a month w/ a 2 year contract...

If I was interested in finding information on historical intra-day variations between daily high & low prices (i.e. spikes & drops) is there a good source or way of finding that information ? Hopefully without having to manually download and sort the information for individual stocks in Excel...