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I believe Xincom can accommodate this but I am not sure, you'll have to double check with them.

To receive the full benefit of a Xincom router you must have two (2) highspeed connections. The peace of mind you get is exceptional and the speed is friggin' ridiculous.

I have this cd. Found it relaxing but it didn't have a positive impact on my trading. If you want something to put you in a good frame of mind try mindhabits.com. They have a free demo that supposedly works miracles. If anything it will make you feel more positive.

BF: Try Xincom's stuff. They combine DSL and cable connections in one box that provides combined speeds, fail-over and redundancy. Can't beat that.

As stated in the indicator code: "colourDeltaBar: Set this to 1 if you wish the colour change to be effective on the actual bar where the direction change occurred. Set this to 0 for default behaviour. " As the indicator's author stated, "The colourDeltabar merely controls when the display colour change occurs, and thus will not cause your trades to occur earlier. The suggestion was to make sure there was no confusion with seeing the colour change on the HMA a bar before the trade was taken - thats all. " In essence, it is a personal preference. Please closely read the following thread: https://www.tradestation.com/Discussions/Topic.aspx?Topic_ID=40589 Hope this helps.

Ant, good work. Your idea has been studied/proven a number of times in the past. Larry Pesavento's 'Opening Price Principle' (http://www.ensignsoftware.com/tips/tradingtips67.htm) and to some degree John Clayburg's DDF (directional day filter)(http://www.clayburg.com/ddf_home.htm) expound on the exact same phenomenon.

Oops. Jack is a CBOT trader. Anyway, he's a a little fuzzy and harried in the morning so maybe that's why a level is missing. I will post more floor numbers in the coming days and perhaps some mathamagician will be able to figure out how they calculate them.

Perhaps these guys are using pre-opening or opening numbers (sort of like a rolling pivot) to come up with these levels. They seem to account for the frequent opening gaps.

For the past few days I have been listening to CME trader Jack Broz's opening bell discussions. After an initial overview he goes down to the floor to get the daily pivots from the traders there for the S&P 500, Bonds and Dow cash. The numbers he comes back with have no correlation to any pivot formula I currently know. Can anyone figure out how these figures are calculated? Pivots for S&P500 for Fri. Feb. 15/08 1357.25 strong resistance 1350.75 1347.50 1339-1340 Daily pivot area 1333 1328 1323 1320.50 strong support Obviously, if these are the support and resistance levels the floor traders are using - I need to retool. And yes, I have asked Jack how they are calculated and he says he doesn't know he just uses them.

The thing that separates this site from many others is the free exchange of ideas and the utter helpfulness of same. It is unfortunate that PivotProfiler has pulled his contributions since it defeats the entire purpose of TL.

Thank you. Here you go.

Since the CME bought the CBOT they have begun amalgamation of services. One of the "improvements" is the combining of websites into one large, unusable one. As of Feb. 2nd cme.com and cbot.com will no longer exist - we will have to use cmegroup.com instead. My question is this: where on earth did they hide the daily settlement prices for the indices:crap:? A free coffee to the winner who posts the new link here!

Best trading advice I ever received, "Buy a rising share, sell a falling share". Hunting for tops and bottoms is a fool's errand. Darvas confirms this: "You can't fight the tape, or the public." ... "I never bought a stock at the low or sold one at the high in my life," says Darvas. "I am satisfied to be along for most of the ride."

Google Hull and esignal to get the efs.

Good point. I use Infinity and for about $25/mth you get Sierra Charts - a whole charting program for less than the cost of CBOT data at TS! I still will keep my TS account tho' since redundancy is always good.

CBOT data fee is a direct result of the CME takeover - gotta pay those bills ya' know. If you are just trading the ES, a cheap (free) workaround in TS would be to use the DOW cash index ($INDU) instead of the futures.

cjstrader5: start by studying this thread, I believe there's already a strategy completed. https://www.tradestation.com/Discussions/Topic.aspx?Topic_ID=40589&SearchTerm=hull%20moving%20average&txtExactMatch= Walter: the Hull's have proven themselves extremely useful. I use them in conjunction with tick charts, momentum, pivots, etc. to get a really excellent idea about market direction and frequent 1-2+ point ES scalps. ssswwwweeeeeetttt.

The lag will eat you alive. Why not just send your money to me? If you absolutely have to use MA's why not use Hull? http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/screaming-fast-moving-average-2082.html

Thanks folks for all the advice. Now I have one monitor right-side up and the other upside down.:o

Joe, first off let me commend you - 50+ years trading!! That is phenomenal, no doubt you have a lot to teach us. As per your topic, I too suffer from stress (but it is self-induced). I have a nasty trading bias for the long side of everything, 'perma bull' in other words. Do you have any ideas on how I might overcome this ridiculous bias of mine?

Okay, we are circling the block on this one. Regarding success/failure rate I strongly urge everyone to study Vilfredo Pareto. His work is frequently referred to as a 'principle'. Franky, I believe what he posits is closer to a law of nature. The fundamental difference between most gambling (ie: casino house games) and trading is that failure is a mathematical certainty in a casino (given a large enough sample period). Whereas, with tremendous study and effort one can attain an edge in trading that put the odds of success in your favor.

That is the great, and frustrating thing about trading, different people can have diametrically opposed results from the same thing. I'll reserve final judgment until I finish the book.

Currently reading Kiev's Trading to Win. As soon as I touched this book my trading has been a mess. Coincidence?

Tradestation has a built-in Indicator called "Correlation" you may want to try.

Yes, until Ant told me to remove the selection "Update value intra-bar (tick-by-tick)" under the General tab when you format the analysis technique.