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MT4 allows a maximum of 8 lines per indicator so that would be the 3 main lines and only five more, not much of a fantail. Blu-Ray, like the way you put the black and yellow lines in the foreground, Magenta to the background, seems like the best way around to me.

An "alumni" audience will be difficult to anticipate. On talkback radio your clinical experience seemed to kick in and have you delivering the goods. Remember to bring yourself flowers.

Gee you have done a lot of work. Looks very promising, good to see the 1min chart being used for verification. Thanks Walter

Good luck with the webinar Doc. Looks like the public might be able to eavesdrop... but 1,000+ people?? Might have to communicate with pit signals... Let us know how it went.

Hi Erving Might need to tell us what market you intend to be trading eg e-mini, forex etc. If you have money to spend there will be plenty of schemes you can buy into, not that they will necessarily work. Otherwise you may need to go for a trading platform that allows you to develop your own trading robot and backtest it which requires a bit of programming skill. eg for forex the MT4 platform has provision for what they call experts or trading robots but I would not call it good, more like basic to primative DIY. Tell us more of your needs and someone may know something useful.

Link to archive of articles by Steenbarger, quite big. http://www.brettsteenbarger.com/articles.htm

The universe moves... Dr Janice Dorn

It uses function calls to VT's inbuilt Wilders ADX, Chande and MA functions. Any other platform would probably need to have similar inbuilt functions if it is to run fast. Need to be expert in two platforms and languages I fear :crap:

With any luck there will be a copy of Bemacs Fantail VMA attached. Had to rename it with a .txt extension. DL fantail_vma_vtscr.txt, rename to fantail_vma.vtscr Once it has been imported into VT, look for Fantail Var MA's in the indicator list. Use the same time period chart as Walter or you will get different results. fantail_vma_vtscr.txt

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VT platform DL and demo account- http://www.vtsystems.com/ 13.8M PDF Manual- http://vtsoftware.fxserver.com/VTtrader/stable/doc/VTtrader_Manual.pdf

http://www.alpari.co.uk/en/metatrader4/open-demo-account.html Alpari UK has MT4 demo with no expiry, other Alpari locations may also. Forex Liquidity LLC, US also but they sometimes stop the feed to fiddle the charts. http://www.migfx.ch/en/open-an-account/free-demo-account/index.html Mig Investments is Swiss, they offer MT4 Swiss etc based account options, might be worth a comparison to US $/pip payouts.. Just got the expiry warning so don't know yet if it will actually expire. Swiss account might be less volatile than US at the moment, but it works both ways. They seem to pull the same tricks as all the rest, figures. You can also dl MT4 from the manufacturer, Metaquotes and there is a support forum.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20021209-000001.html One more.

This is an article on intuition, I wish it had more to say. A search brings up other articles but I haven't looked at them yet. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070424-000001.html For me the final go/wait judgement on a trade seems intuitive. Judging risk, deception and reliability of signals. I rely on it because it seems crucial, but I don't exactly know where it comes from and that makes it seem like a gamble or wishful thinking. It does rely heavily on experience and not just pattern recognition, its like everything I know being weighed all at once. Yet I don't "know" what it is, only parts of it can be itemized. It is good to see it being taken seriously anyway.

Thank you Soultrader, you and Dr J have something exceptional going on here. I see some really sound people here, making an effort and when they seem to be beating themselves up unfairly, I dunno it just started coming out. Don't like to see unfairness. The constructive stuff does need to be recognized and rewarded, thats how you keep it growing and keep it doing you more and more favours. Its a pity people don't support themselves the same way they try to support their kids, with encouragement for the good stuff. You come across as sound and considered, much older than your years. It has surprised me that I can still learn so much market stuff in my 50's, it seems if you have the need you can keep on learning, it isn't all downhill past 25 or 40 after all. There is hope for all of us yet.

Doc Have been in a day dreaming place. Asked myself what reality looks like through your eyes. "The universe moves"... and human reality does not have to be a state of quiet despair. Thank you for the gift and for the love of humanity that motivates it.

It looks to me like the whole industry is overtrading and undercapitalized. Competition tends to drive all players towards the higher risk edge. It looks like nothing was learned from LTCM.

If you assume that the $5B fund was making 10% or 1/2B per year, then the 1.4B they lost in one month would take them 3 years of trading under normal conditions to recover. They are not going to get normal conditions. After the 1.4B injection, they stand to lose 6.4B and they presently stand to win only the 3.6B that was left. That 3.6B can only be expected to shrink before it might start to grow again. Would you trade with a tp that was half your sl, and would you double up to do that? Or would you close out and keep the 3.6B? It looks to me like they cant close out, at least not fast enough to save the 3.6B they report as "assets". Only 50% of those assets have to become liabilies and the 3.6B is toast. The 1.4B they lost also used to be "assets". Where is the up side, zero net profit for 3 years?

Well its good to discover that the shift of manufacturing from the US to Asia had nothing to do with the balance of trade deficit or the decline in US manufacturing. Now I can stop worrying about the next shift to India and China. For a while there I thought the entire developed world would have to find work in the insurance and finance sectors because that would be all that was left outside China. It was just George Soros shorting the dollar for 15 years and he has learned to behave himself now. Don't worry, be happy, coz every little thing gunna be alright.

Couldn't find the one where she breaks his neck with her foot. But anyway he'll be bahk for another beating.

So she is distinctly kinky and he is the only one taking damage...

I rate it as addiction. Got all the above and going nutso about it. It aint my idea of businesslike. Nor my idea of love despite the parallels. Fwiw you can add physical and mental fatigue to the list of triggers for cupids arrow but while it is potent it is resistable. Workplaces are actually the most dangerous, when you see someone daily it wears down your resistance and leaves you with no options. First you notice them, progressively you need to see them or your day is meaningless frustration. Addiction.

I'm going right off topic here, but governments around the world have acted quickly to prop up the banking system. It seems to me that the only thing that governments do by reflex is deception and PR, same thing really. It is making me uncomfortable. False confidence is not what I want.

Thank you Doctor Janice As far as I can tell the child/fun thing is the bottom of the iceberg, the least visible bit and the part that was most reluctant to be questioned. It surprised me that a most trivial aspect seemed to have the most compulsive kneejerks. The old me has been a durable model, have a lot to thank it for. Not sure I trust the notion of rebirth, yet there has also been obvious reason to aim at one, extensive reshaping that addresses the future rather than the past. My overview comes but slips away again. I need to revisit the scene a few more times. It is about entraining constructive habits as you say. In business, once you see the need and see the means, it really takes care of itself, just happens and it is pleasing to see functional stuff happening on auto pilot. In my family I see people identifying themselves with a rat phobia, its as if they cling to a lead weight believing it to be a life belt, believing it to be "me". You should have disposed of that in infancy, what do you gain from carrying pointless baggage? It denies you freedom to act and think. Not so easy to see it in yourself. Thing is if I can genuinely see the need, it should largely fix itself. Thats how it used to work anyway. Regards

Umm maybe it will save me some time on the dissection slab if I tell you what you don't want to hear. I have probably been trading or demo trading 40-60 hrs/week for the last 6 months, plus about 20hrs/week of mundane business. I got used to working 80hrs/week some years ago, brain fog sets in at around 100hrs/week and makes you useless at around 120hrs/week. Provided you alternate, paperwork and thinking in the morning, doing from then on, it is actually efficient. It worked anyway, so now I tend to expect it when needed. Switching to a trading time window is one of the things I will be looking at with some reluctance. Learning involves questioning and it is the more difficult questions that are last to get answered. So there is a tendency for the questioning to increasingly undermine the thinking that the trading relies on. That is also getting looked at, there is a spiral involved when I go off track, it is the early warning things that I need to pay more attention to. It isn't just the siren song of the market, there has been another siren calling for much longer and that seems to be where my heart lies. So be it. The choice of a golden bull for an avatar has less to do with the markets and more to do with recognition that while stubborness is no substitute for an adequate IQ, you just gotta go with what you have got. On second thoughts, that lot might get me certified. Bone headed Taurus.