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Interesting response to the request for statistics. An important point to note is that in real testing of a new therapy the question is asked "how many patients were better X months, years etc after the therapy." The warm glow of therapy tends to result in positive reports that are not sustained over time.

I see that the last poster didn't actually answer the question. Its more of an advert for himself. Did he ever answer your question about the numbers trained and successful after a measured period? You can find Charles Strobel's 6 Second stress reduction technique here. Initially practice relaxation response to get to the calm state for a few weeks then when you are effective at it add CS's approach to link the calm states together in your mind. Repeat that for a few week to get it stuck before trying in anger. http://www.logisens.com/PDF/resources/stress_6secondreduction.pdf

Any system that gives absolutely no control to the trader with respect to position sizing is one that provides the trader with an opportunity for learning. With a small account it is relatively cheap

When you are buying them (not instantly or you can't buy enough to move price) the price rises forcing you to buy them higher. Then it sags back a little. When you sell this large number of shares price falls while you are selling. Then it sags back a little. Result: Nett commissions you lose money.

the_z With two posts and no content but Capitalized, read shouted, assertions of great success you read like a spam supporter following google searches for your sponsor. If you want us to believe that you are a real user then how about posting some content. Details.

Sanchez, I see that your favorite markets are futures and currencies. You also use heavy or light volume to trigger PA trade activity. What source do you use for Currency volume and how effective do you believe it to be? I ask because I saw a post on FF today where someone claimed that (Alpari) volume triggered their action on XAUUSD but someone else posted a gold futures chart that showed normal volume during the period alpari showed 2-3x normal daily volume.

That makes the interesting question: why is it so hard to find eas that actually work? It seems to me that a majority of them pander to the desire of the new trader not to lose very often. Is that other peoples' experience or is it something else?

Here is a post from Zulutrade at forexpeacear "I opened their MIG investor password Login: 89844 Password: invest1 IP: real1.migbank.com:443 The robot is losing money. I am not talking about the money they withdrew or the open losing trades. Its a losing robot. "SCAM" RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting Here is the statements I uploaded it on rapidshare for the account above!!" On another site there were some "its great posts" but they were from 1 post posters (read probably spammers). The other thing you should never forget is "real accounts" can be faked. 1. They may have traded something else. 2. They may run 3 devices and then pick the one that went well over the last xx months.

Regulations allowed you to throw bad Bernie in jail.

Well, perhaps a little.

It is interesting to see that irt are software people not comms people. For most broadband connections the correct question is not: is your internet connection fast enough? Unless downloading (movies, porn, backfills (2 of these are probably illegal)) is how you judge your connection then absolute speed is not the issue. They will be fast enough (256k/1.5M and above) for operation and trading. The real issue is "what is the latency of the connection and what is the quality / reliability?" There are lots of fast internet connections out there that are not suitable for trading - because they give you a high speed but with poor or variable latency (read, ping time) because they overload the links, routers, etc.

I'll be interested to read you thread mitsubishi. As long as you only start 1 or 2 threads here then you can pretty much setup anything you want to say and attackers will be justifiably shut down. It only the shotgun style thread sprayers who invite attack by their asinine spamming of the site.

Its an ascii file. You need to use a charting program that can read it. Sierra Chart is one that you can get a demo of and read ascii files. Install the demo. In the edit menu it offers "import and load ascii data."

Here is about 5 months of HSI data spliced with back adjustment (new contract on 2nd to last business day of each month). It is in 30 second increments although there may be a few periods with IB "tick" data. Note that the file format is 7zip (change the suffix .zip to .7z) which has much better compression of text. . HSI-201005-HKFE-TD.zip

My earlier post got deleted because I mistakenly quoted Pat's scurrilous post including other's private messages. Thanks for that MMW and for responding to mine and thousands of other complaints. It seems that this thread represents how people see UrmaBlume and his repeat posts/thread starts of the same thing. Each time it wins. Each time its a miracle of Pat's genius. Each time hundreds of people pm him to tell him how wonderful and generous he is. Each time hundreds pm to ask for jobs. We all go Wow! What kind of fantasy do you need to live in to do this?

Just a thought for anyone working through this thread. The quad isn't needed for almost any trading app and the latest core2duo's give you better outright cpu speed with much lower power consumption for lower bucks than the q6600s. Try an 8400. Also the 8000 series graphics cards are not really needed for anything except the latest games at highest resolution so you can save a bit on dollars and power consumption with the 7300GS or 7900GS instead. Finally the Raptor and (newest) Velociraptor hard drives are extremely fast which again is almost irrelevant to trading. In return for speed they are noisy, power hungry and have lower bang for the buck (the sweet spot for hds seems to be about 500GBytes from Seagate or Western Digital (possibly less reliable than SG). Green is good; so is quiet :cheers:

Its not so much lagging as when you have the setting at 900ms the chart is only refreshed every 900ms. So sometimes it will be right on time ... but equally often it will be 900ms late. On average though the data was received 450ms before you saw it on the display so I guess it feels like lagging. I think 900 is only really suited to end of day or hourly bar type traders; half a second won't matter much in that case. I must admit I hadn't realised that it could be as fast as 50ms now so I must update mine to 100ms (recently got an 8500 to replace my e6600 and added an extra 2G of ram so why not speed up sc too )

I have been applying his top and bottom test rules (crudely) to the intraday opening tests of my market and finding them quite effective. My approach has been that if the penetration doesn't meet his rule from the pdf's I don't assume trend in that direction - I wait. Interesting so far.

Thanks dan. The ord volume isn't a secret or proprietary (its described in the two free pdf's you can download from his site). From the free PDF's it seems that, like db, he took what Wyckoff had written and adapted it to the modern age. Then he seemed to have set up some specific rules for swings in liquid stocks and it looks like the testing for those rules probably created the software you mention OAC. So, no one here has read the book?

It is unlikely to be Sierra Chart ... check your chart update interval (Global Settings/General Settings) although I'm not certain that would affect it. I run mine on 150ms.

Tim Ord - "The Secret Science of Price and Volume" I was working through some reviews on Amazon today following db's recommendation of Technical-Analysis-Stock-Market-Profits by Richard Schabacker and ran across Tim Ord's book. So I'm trying to decide whether its worth purchasing. Has anyone read it? What did you think? (note to mod, I posted this in general discussion as well ... can you remove that version )

Actually, mod, please remove this thread ... just realised it doesn't show in the new posts so anyone who just looks at new posts won't see this thread. I'll try posting it in beginners forum.

I was working through some reviews on Amazon today following db's recommendation of Technical-Analysis-Stock-Market-Profits by Richard Schabacker and ran across Tim Ord's book. So I'm trying to decide whether its worth purchasing. Has anyone read it? What did you think?

Are you still using Sierra Chart db? It could easily do a variant time chart where overnight bars were compressed by X (specify eod and bod + X). That would be good for showing any structure without the large number of bars and you wouldn't be hostage to o'night volumes to determine your ratio.