jkent77

I don't know how long you have been trading, but I find it useful to have a bullish or bearish view and slant my trades in that direction. But when I trade, I trade what I see, and I admit I was wrong easily and stop out if the market goes against me. We are definitely in a bear market (medium to long term) now, which to me means, it's a traders market (not for investors). I trade bear markets and ride bull markets. I follow only a few market services, 99% are worthless and will lose you money, particularly the widely marketed ones. I have subscribed to over 100 different market services to try to learn. One large heavily marketed service was bearish during the whole recent bull run (his followers lost their shirts). In this bear market, I am short term bullish until about the 23rd or so of Sept., then short term bearish into early November and expect a short term "Christmas" rally after the elections (if conservatives go back in). If liberals stay in spending money we don't have, then all bets are off - down she goes and God help us.

I have an.eld called the equity counter. It will show the open profit and loss in real time as an indicator on a chart, green where strategy is profiting, red where loss, giving the accumulative dollars on the right side. If you would like a copy, send an email to jackkay@bellsouth.net This indicator is great for showing basically the same information without having to access the strategy performance report. If you have any neat indicators or strategies, I am always on the look out.