Tag: "Quadruple Witching"
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 PostS&P 500 Futures Market Update 3/20/09
Futures Market Update Yhe S&P 500 market gave up some of its ground gained resulting from the FOMC announcement yesterday. What was more interesting was the extreme indecisiveness and choppy price action in the market. This type of market behavior is common for options expiration week Tuesdays and Wednesdays. By Thursday of options expiration, [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 6/19/09
Futures Market Update Today is quadruple witching which means it is expiration of June stock index futures, options on stock index futures, options on stocks, and options on single stock futures. Watch for choppy price action off the open and the remainder of the day should be good trade now that the M contracts have [...]
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