euclid

I like the new design, but we now have about 3 inches of fluff between each post. It's got to the point of being quite difficult to find the post on the page. If you actually want to read through a thread you have to use the print view. Is there any chance of putting this stuff to the side of the posts rather than in-line where it interferes with reading the thread. Or even better have a way of hiding it. Maybe collapse the post header down to a compact form with a little [+] button. On other sites turning off avatars and sigs leaves you with a pretty easy to read format. Not so with TL. I've just noticed the format of the topic review you get when composing a reply. Something like that would be great.

Thank you for the clarification. You have confirmed that you are actually using price. In fact, in every example you have shown here the volume pane is entirely redundant. I doubt you will be able to see that, so it would be pointless for me to further divert your thread.

And price continues in a straight line while these "volume sequences" complete? I'm questioning your terminology here. You've not shown any volume sequence that isn't coloured by price. For me that's a price and volume sequence. Do you understand what I am saying?

So price and volume move in sync, as you have illustrated, with price and volume peaking at the the same moment. No argument with that. How do get from this to "volume leads price".

Eh? The height of the volumes bars is the volume it is all the information the volume bar gives. I understand that you are trying to show fractal waveforms in the volume data. I'm not convinced you can extract four separate waves from that small amount of data. You seem to be using price as the primary cue as to where the volume waves are. I don't see how you claim volume leads price from this. Sorry, I'm not convinced about these sequences either. Never mind, whatever works for you.

I can't see any relationship between your lines/labels and the height of the volume bars.

Both price and volume are indications of transactions. Transactions change both volume and price simultaneously. Volume does not "create price" or "lead price". Combining price and volume data simply gives more information about order flow than price data alone. Maybe not more information, since everything is revealed in the price eventually, but more timely information.

This sub-forum has been sitting empty for a while now, so I thought I'd kick things off with a poll to see if anybody here uses Metatrader and what for.

I think the membership can successfully be given a role in moderating the board. Here's my idea. First you need a few very clear rules about what is not allowed. Then you need a report post button that appears on all unmoderated posts. Any member should be able to report a post and select which rule it breaks in their view. Reported posts are approved, moved or deleted by an official moderator as necessary in accordance with the published rules. Once a post has been approved by a moderator or if it was not reported by any members for a period of time, it is marked as moderated and no longer has a report post button. Each member has a moderation score. If they report a post that subsequently requires no action by the moderator, their score goes down a lot. If they correctly report a post, it goes up a bit. I think it would work best if the actual scores were not known by the members. Abusers of the report post button will end up with negative scores and their reports can be ignored. After the system has been running for a while, if it works, you will be able to automatically hide posts with a certain weight of reports while they await official moderation. Then if you find that all the hidden posts end up being deleted, you could make that automatic (subject to appeal). It can be gradually extended. If it doesn't work, well at least you've got a report post button.

I used to get punted to the error page just after the home page had finished loading, but after a few page reloads, it would be OK. It was then OK for as long as I didn't shutdown my browser. I was getting it on the home page (http://www.traderslaboratory.com) and /index.php?page=calendar. I think I also tried /forums, but I tried it again and the problem has just now gone away and I can't reproduce it on any URL.

Everytime I try to get into TL, I get this: Not Found The requested URL /profile.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I have to retry several times to get in.

And don't just complain about how it's going to affect you as a speculator. Preventing speculation is one of the stated aims. Make some arguments about how this will be bad for the country including struggling businesses which rely on low cost access to the markets. Point out that without exemptions for market makers, all derivatives exchanges will be forced to move abroad since they rely on arbitrage which would be impossible under this tax regime. With exemptions, then markets could remain, but speculation would be all but eliminated leaving the markets more expensive for investors and businesses. Also the tax lost from speculators forced out of the market would probably outweigh the tax gain. Point out that there isn't a huge pot of money floating around the derivatives markets which can be easily tapped by the government. It's all imaginary money - notional contract values. Counting derivative transactions on their contract value is like counting insurance transactions by their maximum pay-out value. The numbers are absurd. There are no billions of dollars floating around that no-one will miss.