Fills opening gap.

Why Options? Capital Efficiency. Shaping P/L curves, defined risk, asymmetric potential payoffs,  precision, flexibilty.  Think Checkers vs Chess. And yes, income.

This is not fear - a 1% overnight fade met with IMMEDIATE buying (and put selling). Apart from Liberation Day, every selloff has been so completely muted.  We're down 2% from all time highs and it seems like a screaming buy. again. Everyday it's a buy.  good news/bad news. And (correct me if I'm wrong) but it appears to be  retail-led too! Is this just the new paradigm- buy everything everyday?

is that 5 waves?

For some time now, I've endured Tradestation's infuriatingly slow, prone-to-constantly-crashing , ancient 32-bit trading platform, primarily because the algorithms that I use -both written follow- were in EasyLanguage, even though I executed primarily with IBKR.  For kicks, I got myself a trial of Multicharts (64-bit) platform just to see if it was any better.  Lo and behold, its like night and day. Almost effortlessly, I've converted the first half of my algos (20 or so) to PowerLanguage (MC's version of Easy) with the help of Chat GPT - within the first few hours of using the platform.  The only issue i'm having right now is data - i can use Tradestation's data feed pretty easily, but IBKR's isn't configured that well yet. Going to see if I can get it sorted out with them this afternoon.

Anyway - I'm posting this since I know that some of you (ESPECIALLY YOU MATT/JAMES!!) use Tradestation and have had the same issues that I have.  As traders, we tend to be creatures of habit. No one wants to go out and "learn" a new platform.  I get it, but the step up in performance is immediately noticeable and the conversion process relatively easy.  Anyway, might be worth looking into!

TACO

would love that -thank you!

Has anyone used TitanX from Tradestation? Anyone who uses TS Desktop knows what a beast it can be. Does anyone know if you can run strategies from the new platform?

so much for VIX/VVIX. Its been the same story since April - selloffs dont even last a day. big overnight down moves get gobbled up. the panic remains to the upside. cant stop. wont stop.

This is great point. I actually meant to bring this up to you regarding futures.  When you program the system you're getting the "settlement" price. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily the "last" price. So you'll have a situation where you can trigger an exit but Tradestation will give you an exit thats not where it is currently trading.  I think its especially the case with GC as well where the settlement comes in at the close - around 2:30pm - but it trades until 5:00pm.   This is WHEN your bar ends and the signal is generated, but not WHERE. Where is back at 2:30pm.  (I may wrong on this, but that's my understanding of it anyway).

I think your workaround is the way to go! A coding pain-in-the-neck, but it should work.

CNN Fear and Greed Index is 8  (Up from 6 yesterday). (CNN)

Crypto Fear and Greed Index is 14. (Cointree)

Matt- any Mean-Reversion systems triggering here? RSI40? 

Thanks for the color!

How does AAPL have that much debt?

It's showing a gap on TOS.

Thanks Matt.

Hey Matt- are you showing an exit on the Mean Reversion Trade?

is some of it the dividend? didn't it go ex- on Friday?