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and that's pretty much that on that trade.:\

maybe there is a problem with my install then. will try a re-install later.

My plan so far is working. Play the gap fill then short the close area. Needs to roll over soon though if we are to test lower otherwise 1397.50/1400.00 might be on the cards.

No. I mean specifically a horizontal reference line.

Any horizontal drawing tool line. Could be other things too, but that's all I've noticed so far. You can still change the price manually in the item settings, just can't drag to move it. Try it to see if you can replicate the problem.

Interesting little bit of info is that if you felt there was a possibility of downward extension given that it looks like market is struggling more to upside and so at least is coming into balance, the longer term target of 1377.00 we had would put the current RTH balance VPOC virtually slap bang on the midpoint. (if it were 77.25 it would be exactly on the mid).

Another picture to show you the balance:- The figures there are the total profile volume (21.14 million) and percentage volume difference above or below VPOC (3.7% of 21.14m above VPOC @1397.50 in this case).

It could be interesting today ahead of the holiday. Long weekend and NFPs could mean there are books which need to be balanced. We'll see. Either way, it's the market which has been balanced more recently. Here's a chart to see that:-

Ninja can use DTN and automate. As can (I believe) Multicharts and Sierra.

A word of warning if you are going to upgrade to latest IRT release- I can't seem to move any of my horizontal lines anymore (and no they aren't showing as locked).

Came across this article in just and thought I'd share it. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57409617-93/arizona-pushes-law-to-make-annoying-comments-illegal/ I particularly like the "free speech advocates say the law's language is too broad making any "annoying" or "offensive" comment made on the Internet illegal." part. Amazing.

Which bonds are you looking at? Govt bond futures for example, are a basket of issues. The rate is determined by the price and the coupon. Like recently in Europe, they have been saying how the governments' costs of borrowing were going up and up. The coupon didn't change, nor did the nominal value of the bond. But as risk in this example goes up, the market auctions lower to entice buyers. So the price they sell their bonds for goes down. e.g. a Eur100,000 bond with a 5% coupon will pay 5% per year then Eur100,000 at maturity, but it might sell for lower or higher than the nominal Eur100,000 value depending on demand. If it's lower, the 5% goes up and if it's higher, 5% rate effectively lowers. Typically if you are going to trade bonds you wouldn't need to get too technical imo. You need to know the effect interest rate changes effect prices, inflation, geopolitical events and curve changes. It depends what your requirements are though.

I thought I'd put the question to our community of what you think about Solid State Drives (SSD) for data storage. I use a large databases for instrument data and having a drive with high performance is something that I feel is an extremely useful thing for me. Technical or not, I'd really like to here the opinions of other members. If anything remotely technical simply puts you to sleep, I have sectioned the next part out ################################################# Yesterday, saw the release of the new OCZ Vertex 4 drive and this is what prompted me to start a thread. You can see it here. There are a few major considerations in selecting a quality SSD. Probably the two most important:- flash memory type and controller. Without getting too technical, the flash memory type will affect the life and ability of memory chips on the drive. At the moment, Toshiba make the best "toggle" flash. The main thing I would say about it is compared to the other types, it does not get the same kind of performance degredation as the drive is filled up. A full drive using "asynchronous" flash memory won't be likely to achieve anywhere near the specified performance. The controller is the other main factor. Recently a popular choice for drive manufacturers has been the latest Sandforce offerings. They give the highest headline read/write peformance with current generation drives using the latest controller topping 500MB/s read and write. The thing is, different controllers use different methods for transferring data. Specifically, the Sandforce controllers compress data, transfer it, the decompress it. What this means is that incompressible data (already compressed data amongst other types) does not transfer at the same kind of rates as other data. My data uses compression and so Sandforce based SSDs will lose read/write performance in this case. The reason I mentioned the OCZ Vertex 4 is that it uses a new controller - Indilinx (controller manufacturer which OCZ purchased). The 128GB drive has a similar read but really low write speed (200MB/s compared to Sandforce ~ 500MB/s). So what is the point then? Well, the drive tends to get much better all around performance and does not suffer so much from the incompressible data issue. There is another major controller make due to release a new model soon - Marvell. They should be able to show all around performance which I need like OCZ's Indilinx controller. I'll be looking out for Plextor drives when the new Marvell chip comes out. ####################################################################### Anyway, my point is that an SSD for charting is at least for me, a very useful thing. But, not all SSD's are made equal. What do you think?

91 or 92 here could top out a rotation. Would want to see it above the 92's if view is to change.

This market is beginning to feel like a slippery slope.

Bill Gross saying last FOMC mins doesn't change his opinion on QE3 (i.e. that it'll happen) "Gross: #Fed likely to hint @ QE3 in April meeting." twitter

I missed a possible reshort there, but I am wary of this market as we had an auction type open and really, the amount being sold doesn't fill me with confidence. It'll probably get to 77's now! Ha!

Phew. thought that wasn't going to go for a min or two. Was long into the number hoping for a little pop to properly test 99/99.50 then reversed quickly and got short at 97.5. Out at 94.5 looking at that balance low vol. Nearly reversed, but just mindful that recently it usually goes to the next level before turning. So will watch 92 area.

Any thoughts so far?

Although if it's climbing like that it could be some kind of buggy indicator.

There is a full release now available which you probably want to consider. Investor/RT - Quick Download Center version 10.5.1

What version are you on now?

So Fed were fluffing their lines over QE3 in the FOMC minutes then? What is Bernanke trying to achieve then I wonder, if he came out after the meeting suggesting QE3? Hmm. Not sure on that one. Looks like the market isn't certain either. Whatever happens, there are a number of great looking areas to watch today. Of course this is as always dependent on where and how we open.

No. I closed a few charts with big vp's on, did database maintenance wizard and turned off a load of pointless crosshairs. I'm sure the first point makes more difference, but a couple of weeks ago I was on 800mb now I'm just over 400mb. Btw, did you move to the full release at all yet?

Fair enough, I can see that makes sense.