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I am not 100% sure, but it appears that, at least on my hourly chart, we have broken the neckline on the Head &Shoulders formation that formed over the last 2 months on the S&P 500.

Mr. Slege: Unless you are already wealthy, which you probably are. Most of us would have to get a 9-5 job or another type of business if we are going to trade long-term. I can't imaging making withdrawal for expenses every month if I am going through a period of drawdowns unless I started out with a big pile of cash. It is not called trading any more, it is more like portfolio mangement.

Sorry newbie. Our top performing systems are confidential. After all, we still have to put gas in our Bentleys.

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/the-false-break-trade-1994.html also known as the Gotcha trade.

The key is not the software, Top Gun is just as good any other good softwares. The key is to internalize it which takes tremendous amount of screen time, and I am talking about thousands of hours.

Has anyone ever studied this intraday timing method called the Alan's Box ? Looks facinating: http://amgallo.com/daManual/

Yeah, nothing groundbreaking about Stephenson's book. If you want more practical stuff, Michael Parsons's stuff is worth a read if you haven't already done so.

It is not going to be a paid subscription of some kind, right ? If you are that good, you should be running a fund.

Blue BMWs may be nice, but I like the length of mini-skirts better !

He is a regular member here. Handle: Alleyb

Here is an useful article from a past issue of Active Traders magazine: terry_april_2002_AT.pdf

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f34/trading-reversals-3913.html

Jerry: Can Ensign do a composite or merged profile for a number of periods either daily or intraday ? Thanks

Read the other thread: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f24/introduction-to-inter-currency-analisis-3943.html

Ok Oz, looks like you have been more active in the other forums, or rather they have been more active in this discussion since February.

Welcome back. Walter. :thumbs up:

Then they should be posted here as well, otherwise Traders Log here we go. This thread title is got to go too, unless he can provide verifiable statements.

Some old-time technicians use the close rather than the high or low to count the numbers of bars between two pivots. For instance the highest bar inside a high pivot is not the bar that has the highest high than the surrounding bars, but rather the highest close than the surrounding bars. Other technicians also include holidays in their count, last Monday for instance.

Can you post some charts and explain what you are doing ? Just posting your signals here everyday provides little educational value . Otherwise, I 'd have to move your posts to the Traders Log section

Justlurking: Depend on the charting software you are using, meaning whether it will accept Opentick.com data ? If it does, I think all it cost you is $1.00 NYSE exchange fee per month to get $UVOL and $DVOL.

As far as I know, IB doesn't have these, only the Advance/Decline Ratio.

Oz: I do have a couple questions for you : (1) The standard Stochastic indicator has a scale that runs from 0 to 100. With your entry signal triggered with Stochastic going above or below zero, Is your zero line equivalent to the 50 centerline in the standard stochastic indicator ? (2) Your stochastic indicator shows 2 lines, I guess one of the line is the signal line. Do you use the signal line ? If not, why do you show it on your chart ? (3) When I look at the AC Oscillator histogram some of the times, I can't help but notice the nice divergence with price prior to an entry signal. Is that significant at all ? You did say that reading this thing is like an art, therefore I can't possibily imagine the entry signal to be 100% mechanical ? Thanks

There are 2 canned indicators, one is Volume Profile which only read real-time data because it also differetiate volume at the bid and volume at the ask. The other one is the Volume Zone which reads historical data, only thing I am not sure Whether it only gives you a cumulative volume over a number of days or just a single day as you have requested. You may have to go to the NinjaTrader Forum and find out if you can do a minor modification if needed.

cosmicat: On February 17, 2008, Thrunner posted his TS Performance Report on this sytem.(Post#22) He stated that the short trades were not profitable with the EUR/JPY pair even with the 200sma filter. Can you compare your results with his and possibly make some meaningful observations ? Thanks

NinjaTrader 6.5 which is free. If you don't have one of the datafeed that is compatible, you can open an account with Opentick which is also free for their historical data.