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look, you said the "eyeball strategy" was a crapshoot....but that's how it's done. There are no hard and fast rules. It takes thousands of hours to get it. Think of the old pit traders you read stories of. They would see, hear and smell fear and greed around them all day. When it was time to...

From the pro who's looking to hire a bunch of half-starving guys from the other side of the world to execute his trading strategies.........

http://www.amazon.com/The-Guide-Traders-Robert-Green/dp/0071441395/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330728260&sr=8-1 Dated, but a good place to start.

Yes I am in agreement that volume profiles seem to be the way to analyze the markets these days. I believe that's what Steidlmayer was trying to get at with his lecture. You have to be sure you have a good data feed, though.

Why would you need to advertise your free of charge indicators and solicit peoples emails? If they are really free just post them...

The people telling you to ditch the TA stuff are giving you sound advice. Start by learning how and why prices move and you'll be way ahead of all the momos who think the market just rallied because their 21 rsi just did a backflip off the 33.6 fibonacci

Steidlemeyer himself came out last summer and said market profile is dated and of little to no use. The lecture is on the cme website. There was no tick data like we have now back in the 80s so why would you want to trade using only price and time when there is so much volume information available?

or you could just use marketdelta/investor rt or even ninjatrader with the gomi indicators...

The people telling you to ditch the TA stuff are giving you sound advice. Start off learning how prices really move and you'll be way ahead of all the momos who think the market just rallied because their 21 rsi just did a backflip off the 33.6 fibonacci...

Steidlemeyer himself came out last summer and said market profile, the way it was originally developed, is outdated and no longer of much (if any) use. The lecture is on the cme website... It was never an indicator anyways. Read the CBOT guide to market profile if you really want to know what...

Out of curiosity, do you generally stop trading for the entire session if you find the moves to be a tad random at the open?

Not a bad day for James!

hey I am enjoying reading your journal as I trade the DAX. Good job with that last short, worked out nicely.