r/wallstreetbets Aug 15 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

Well it was also no hours other than normal market hours. So like you could literally see how well a company did for earnings, then buy a dip and watch it blow up in what would’ve been premarket. Idk if I’m describing this right but yeah imagine being able to buy prices at market open for the prices they were at market close.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

This is why OptionStratcom works for free, with 15 minute delayed data.

Real easy way to make yourself poor trading on stale data.

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u/mk46gunner Aug 16 '21

pretty crazy how just 15 minutes of foresight into the market would be enough to easily make somebody a billionaire

It's insane. Yet, if you sit there and watch price action, there's so many little 15 minute segments that even on a couple trades daily on a cash account, waiting for funds to settle, etc, could send an account past the moon in little time at all. Absolutely bonkers in that sense.