» chop http://traderpsyches.com Trading Psychology, the Thinking Man's Market Psychology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:16:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Rollover Chop and Slop http://traderpsyches.com/rollover-chop-and-slop http://traderpsyches.com/rollover-chop-and-slop#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:09:24 +0000 DKS http://traderpsyches.com/blog/?p=307 Were you listening to the S&P pit this afternoon? or, just watching the ES trade…. now THAT is the movie of chop and slop. Typical for rollover time – days better spent doing something more productive than trying to catch a decent intra-day trend!

]]> http://traderpsyches.com/rollover-chop-and-slop/feed 0 Evidently chop and slop can be in 100 point increments … http://traderpsyches.com/evidently-chop-and-slop-can-be-in-100-point-increments http://traderpsyches.com/evidently-chop-and-slop-can-be-in-100-point-increments#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:32:53 +0000 DKS http://traderpsyches.com/blog/?p=136 Wow – what a chopfest. … which I have heard is the sign of a bottom. I could really see and feel the fight for value – with about equal players on both sides. Hard NOT to get aggravated in that and even harder to apply the “well if it can’t go down, it must be going up” idea. …. although that did work finally in the last 10 minutes of the cash markets.

Now we know what a range bound day looks like in this market. THAT is something to think about.

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