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I don’t use AI for anything particularly sophisticated, but I do find it quite useful for special circumstances. For example, there was an article I read today featuring a list of stocks that were most prone to movement following today’s record OpEx. Here is the graphic that was presented.
Hello everyone — after a bit of a hiatus, I’m back. I’ve been busy behind the scenes building a few new tools that I hope you’ll find useful in your trading.
Below is a small table showcasing three markets I’m currently analyzing using a DAILY model. I also track other markets using a WEEKLY model. The choice of timeframe isn’t random — it’s driven by options expiry cycles. Since these models are designed to work hand-in-hand with options trading, I align the model’s frequency with the available expiries. For example, SPX has daily expirations, so it gets a DAILY model. Stock ABC, on the other hand, might only have weekly expiries — so it gets a WEEKLY model. Simple logic.
(more…)As a side note, I drove to my childhood home of Moraga last night, which I hadn’t visited in years, with the wife and little Duke. I am sentimental by nature, so going to a place where I spent the happiest years of my life was a turbocharged blast of sentimentality. Duke behaved himself beautifully, even with all the attention he was getting (“can I pet him?”, “can I take his picture?”, etc.) There must have been a hundred other dogs there, most of whom he got to meet.
Well, folks, I just woke up and took a glance at the most important chart for me, the /RTY, and I can tell you whatever feelings I had about the mandatory shut-down of markets yesterday has been amplified ten-fold, and permanently.
The reason is simple: yesterday, errr, Juneteenth, the /RTY was doing the following:
