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Congratulations David, I know how many years you've been in frustration mode. My apologies for stealing some of your thunder, but I'd like to say that the last few days have been starting to be like what you described. The effort and patience that Spyder puts out is almost inhuman. The man is a...

I've known about flaws for several years. I've read and studied Jack's descriptions and Spyder's descriptions numerous times. Nice intellectual pursuit. Did nothing for my trading. Once I started forcing myself to consider flaws in real time, make myself call out flaws and/or ftt's AND be ok...

This is how I saw it, hopefully Spy will not give me 50 lashes if this is not right. The 10:45 bar bounced off the LTL and price started heading down, so price direction is down at that point. THe 10:50 bar sees significantly decreasing volume, suggesting a flaw. THe next bar is opposite in...

This isn't exactly correct. You can still trade "day trade" twice in a five day period without getting stuck in the pattern day trader rules. All you need to do (for a small account) is make sure you never enter more than two positions in a single day. If you get blown out of both in the same...

Wow, I am (was?) an avid IB supporter. I had no idea this was going on, until I just received an email earlier today telling me about this. In a most unbusinesslike fashion, the emial said mandatory, and then on the sign up page it gave an opt out choice. How the hell is a client supposed...

One area where I seem to lack some skill is seeing what's going on at RTL's. This am's 10:35 bar is a case in point. Actually, it's not so much seeing, but rather knowing what and when to do it. The setup usually goes something like this: I get an FTT (like 10:20) and price retraces to the...

Not to worry. Price did leave the channel, breaking the RTL on increasing black volume. Note that the 12:25 bar is a spike bar. That is, it opens and closes at or about the same point. That means the bar is roughly 1/2 selling and 1/2 buying. In these cases, we (mentally) split the bar into...

I did Steve. I don't just look at the closes, I look at the context: that is, bar overlap, general price movement, etc. THis is how I understand forced gaussian synching.

The bar you shorted on had volume which was less than 1/2 the prior bar. Such low volume suggests flaw, not FTT. When volume plunges to 40-60% of the prior bar, think flaw.

There is much dis-information about ethanol. First, you don't need corn. Purdue has an enzyme that you can use with plain old grass (cellulose) and more technology will come along. Garbage can work too. Root crops and even high sugar crops like beets are doable. I believe in what I see, not what...

They aren't separate symbols, but rather specific syntax. You still use the symbol for ES and the proper expiry, but then specify "last", "volume" , and other parameters like those for market depth. You can download and review the API documentation from IB's web site.

I'm enjoying the high gas prices. Farm land values in the corn belt are going up, up, up. Yes, I've got some farm land. Yep, ethanol is for real. There are individuals distilling in the tens of thousands of gallons more or less on a hobby level. And the higher gas goes, the more attractive...

Sorry Bear, I got even and odd mixxed up. My bad.

Thank you Jack. Reading this and feeling good about how it's all coming together seems right. Your last paragraph I have begun to relate to. Two months ago I could barely do channels on the ES. Now I can do ES, YM, guassians, glance at S/S and grab a bite to eat without my heart rate going up at...

Bear, maybe this will help, but I admittedly don't know a great deal about this and I suspect there is some deeper meaning to harmonic action beyond merely a labeling tool. Odd harmonics is like a square wave. On the chart it would appear as a lateral, price moves out of lateral, only to form...

I am posting this because I know many following this thread use IB. I do not want to bash IB (I'm a happy customer for years) nor want to get the thread off track, but felt it important that users be aware that there are most definitely data problems when IB fills charts. In particular, the...

If you'd bothered reading another page or so in the thread you'd see an updated link.

How about this this.... Viewed this way, that black bar is just part of a lateral which is a non-dominant traverse. Also, that bar is right at Pro's RTL and one would expect increasing blk at that point. The fact you don't get it is probably a pretty good clue.

cough, cough, indeed, how 'bout you come on up to Wisconsin and we'll work on it together:) Anywho, the back and forth you and Spooz are having deserves a comment from the peanut gallery (that's me). If one thing is becoming more and more clear to me, it's that so long as you have the correct...

Pt2 is not an FTT on the same resolution. This is not correct.