Tag: "opex"
Opex Options Expiration
How to Trade OPEX (Options Expiration) OPEX brings many new risks to speculative traders that most other trading days do not. Simply put it is 1 of 4 days of the year (actually 3 days of 12 as the effects of roll over tend to last for 3 days) when all the larger institutional traders [...]
View PostEmini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 7/20/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 held a tight 7 point consolidation range throughout the entire day Friday. Continuing to hold these levels and reject the previous attempt to take out lower value shows the short term acceptance of the continued consolidation range traded of the last month. Now with options expiration behind us, [...]
Emini Trading Market Preperation June 10 2009
The E-mini SP’s rallied on light volume to test 945, no real surprise as we had mentioned yesterday that this is what we were looking for. We continue to hold this neutral area, neither losing nor building value. As long as we continue to consolidate above 925 the market will attempt to push for higher [...]
Futures Market Update 2/19/09
Futures Market Update Yesterday was options expiration Wednesday and true to the typical day during opex, the emini S&P remained range bound throughout the day session around the market profile TPO level of 789. Choppy price action was observed throughout the day and is another typical characteristic of the S&P 500 market during OPEX week. [...]
Futures Contract Roll Over
Futures Contract Roll Over for Equity Indices products; TF, ES, NQ, EMD and YM roll on Thursday Sept the 9th at 8:30 am Chicago time from the September 2010 contract to the December 2010 contract. The month code for December is ‘Z’. Contract Roll Over is a special and different kind of trading day, and [...]
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