The Tail That Wags The Dog’s posts

Nov 6, 2024

1/2 All stocks and options posted are examples only. These are not recommendations to buy or sell any security and they do not represent in any way a positive or negative outlook for any security. Potential returns do not take into account your trade size, brokerage commissions,

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Fri Jun 13 | 8 PM So, let me show you where I'm at on getting you guys a Thinkscript study that plots high options premiums in real time. There's a cool little trick to this ... but first, I just need to get a sense that what you see in the labeled image below ... is TOTALLY

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May 19

Sun May 18 CODE GIVEAWAY In an effort to accelerate your implementation of a very decent trailing stop and a great momentum indicator ... I'm sharing mine with you. First: 1) I can't take time to teach you how to install a Thinkscript (I'll tell you the basic part, below) ...

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Tue May 27 | After Market Feelin' sort of philosophical. Yesterday, I posted this picture of me in the Navy, during the Vietnam war (circa 1969). Some of you might have thought, "Whoa, how old is this TailWagsTheDog dude?" I'm old. 74. And the photo on my website ... taken at

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The Tail That Wags The Dog

@TailThatWagsDog

May 26

Mon May 26 A National Moment of Remembrance is observed at 3:00 p.m. local time, during which Americans are encouraged to pause for a moment of silence to honor those who have died in service. To my fellow military veterans, "Thank you for your service." Stephen Harlin U.S.

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Mar 1

The unceasing quest for simplicity. Okay, I'm callin' it. Close enough.

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Dec 3, 2024

The only thing that truly matters.

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OMG ... I think I'm going to be able to get you guys the killer subgraph study ... that everyone wants. Just had a breakthrough.

I *think* I've got it. Let me test a bit.

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@TailThatWagsDog

Jun 14

Fri Jun 13 | After-market Review of 0DTE in micro-Nasdaq futures I've been showing you guys this strategy. Essentially, you use 0DTE activity in QQQ options to signal trades in /MNQ. If you traded the (confirmed) signals I've placed on the chart ... and traded like a machine

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Feb 20

Category: 'How To' Gift All you do ... to get the GEX distribution ... is: 1) create an empty Watchlist 2) load a range of strikes above and below the ATM level 3) write the one line of code pictured below 4) follow changes and interpret based upon price action on the chart

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@TailThatWagsDog

Feb 20

Wed Feb 19 Category: DIY Live GEX Distribution (using Thinkscript) Some of you will immediately know how to do this ... just from seeing this.

For the rest of you ... I'll have to come back to this, as I'm time-crunched. (It's really easy code.) What's cool about this is

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Feb 11

1/ Based on the article I shared this morning, you wouldn't want to miss buy signals ... as framed in white, below. What you're looking at, in this implementation, are buy side points of confluence ... first, when dealers are forced to buy back their hedges.

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Mar 28

Thu Mar 27 | 10:00 PM Category: Hey! It's been fun ... twittering with you guys. But this does take a considerable amount of time. And. Got a ton of other obligations right now ... so I'm going to take care of other commitments. Stuff like: • dinners out with my wife ...

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Jun 13

Thu Jun 12 | 6:30 PM Warning: There are "grave signs" in today's index options flows. I'll mention a few measures of market fragility that are present ... and are new ... today. • $NetPutDelta is near zero. (When customers are buying as many puts as they're selling ...

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Jun 17

Yeah ... it's a variation of Bollinger bands. Here's the simple code.

I like 'em. Hope you do too.

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Socrates the Trader

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Jun 17

Replying to @TailThatWagsDog

Doc, are the grey dashes a variation of Bollinger Bands, Keltner Channels, or Envelope Channels (or something else I'm overlooking)?

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Mar 5

Tue Mar 4 | 7:30 PM Tonight's dark pools flows. The liquidation continues. S&P 500 index holdings on the left. S&P 100 index holdings on the right. The task confronting investors, now, is to position portfolios to endure stagflation + economic slowing (spelled recession) +

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Feb 9

Image Left • YTD, dark pools buying support, selling resistance, buying more than they're selling. • Also buying more than they're selling of QQQ, TLT, and GLD. • See insets for details. Image Right • Until recently, dark pools were trimming positions as the market moved up.

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Jun 15

Sat Jun 14 | Noon Progress Report Okay ... the Calls version is working swimmingly. Emphasis: We can't know what the motivation for these large dollar-volume positions are ... can only infer. But the spiking and clustering of these positions ahead of directional changes is

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Dec 5, 2024

So, how did last night's undervalued options scan do? As of 2:15PM ...

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And here's the call study. Notice the difference in $$ transacted in calls (lower) than puts. (See graphic framed in white on the right) And with posting the call premiums ... I realize that you've got to be able to match high volumes to price action ... and ignore the excess

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Sat Mar 22 | 4:00 PM Consider this a continuation signal.

Institutions were, unequivocally, buyers on Friday ... marking the second day of accumulation ... and taking the cumulative flows to the buy side.

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Mar 7

Thu Mar 6 | 8:30 PM Folks ... it's time for a break. I have a sizable amount of coding work to do on an options database. And I have some catch-up to do on life outside of this space. Soooo.... I'll check in after a little hiatus. But in the meantime, every good wish to you all.

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