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    Most noobies lose money, but that is exactly what they should do

    I tried to send you a copy but your email is blocked, sorry.
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    Most noobies lose money, but that is exactly what they should do

    There is a lot of self selection that goes on in trading. For whatever reason since day 1 I was always associated with winning traders. Looking back, the reasons were probably obvious: 1. Affiliated jobs We all worked in cutting edge areas at IBM. 2. Fields of study in college...
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    Poll Are You having trouble getting credit?

    I agree with your paragraphs. There is a great book on being your own bank. The Arthritis Foundation (begun in Tucson 60 years ago) local annual auction and gala was last Saturday. We noticed that the event, ordinarily @ 150K, was just over 72,000 this year. A couple of noticable trends...
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    How to trade the various bailout scenerios?

    the two scenarios I like big time are : Price movement, and Volatility. ALL IN, ALL THE TIME and CARVE EVERY TURN. It is as they say it is opportunity that is: UNBELIEVABLE and ASTONISHING.
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    What more bad news could come out?

    For me the word "torsion" comes to mind. Opposing forces tug and pull and twist in opposite directions and rotation. The failures coming up will be as consequences of sharp pokes into the economic fabric and not so much the long list of dominos that are being knocked over. Bad stuff is...
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    700Billion $ bailout = 3.5 Trillion $ problem ?

    I'm reading 3trillion at this point. Reading means using some graphics as a consequence of gathering published data. The money is one dimension, the more significant is the time axis. I see trends as overlapping and the overlap started end of JUN06. We are now accelerating up to the...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Pace is a volume characteristic. As seen elsewhere in script and on platforms, the divisions of one pace from another is done through distributions of bar volume data. In software terms, this is a maintained lookup table. Deciles usually are used in pairs except for the extremes. There...
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    For newbies by a newbie

    Sector rotation is a well known and comprehensively fleshed out trading strategy. The leader/ lagger aspect is similarly well documented and understood. The main feature, in my opinion is its unlimited capacity to handle large sums of capital. 4% a week is standard for profit making and...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    And Illustration 21 the technique part. <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2082836" width=800>
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Here is a quote (21SEP08) about the middle of the process for creating ATS's by any means. "If you have the analysis, design, and architecture skills for software development, then you need to leverage those to build your strategy." There is a choice of what to analyze. That has been made...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Here is an annotated chart of the price (100 tic) and Volume (smart volume) of a forex chart. I erased the volume and put a Channel Gaussian chart in its place. This shows the traverse volume in the channels of the chart. I only showed the channel RTL's (in pink for clarity) and the...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Hi Wayne, I sniped your post And pasted it below: "Again, were not talking here about people, persons, average or otherwise, it's an ATS. So I simply need us to focus on the charts. The baseline, are the tapes okay? You said 10% are off, which ones please, and on which chart, the most...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    I am up tp date on the reading. I request that you review OODA, of John Boyd. You need to recognize deeply and completely, the flaws of CW. Then you need to spend a lot of time finding out how you work and particularly how differentiation works and more importantly how repairing...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Wi Wayne, Here is the second one. ED: Sorry about those two parallel lines on the left. <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2079123" width=800> For the chat here I have been using the word "value" to describe Price of the P, V relationship. I have been...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Hi Wayne, I've reread the thread to better get down on the BPA and BPR. I see you are do a forex pair and you weren't able to connect with the ES. The anotations you did missed the mark and volume was missing on the chart. I see that a good 3 level proto was provided and it was color...
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Missing illustrations 17 and 18 (tomorrow) Illustration 19 last one. you have to rotate it maybe. This is an expanded view. The rings can be pushed to the left to make the learning levels concentric. There are four mor rings.
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Illustration 16 P, V Loops level I and II <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2077057" width=800>
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    How to Build an Automated Trading System

    Illustration 15 Level I pre FTT and post FTT considerations chart form
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