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So its not really the whole book, but rather certain core principles? The Miyamoto Musashi book (5 rings) talks about the five stances - void, fire, wind etc, so am I right in thinking that these "stances" would be irrelevant? Apologies for using this book, when the thread title is Sun Tzu...

I have been puzzling since I started looking into trading as to why The Art of War, and other such works keep being mentioned. I first read The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, when I was heavily into martial arts, many years ago now. I even read the Tao te Ching! Now, whilst I could...

I think this thread has gone cancerous! The original post (does anyone remember) was about new alternatives available for new traders - ie. advanced simulators, which compliment paper trading. To which the answer is, yes, new traders are lucky in that they have more ways to learn. It...

So has anyone ever achieved this "Dr Spock" state? I think not. I know the goal is not to be INFLUENCED by the emotions, but that is a completely different thing to having no emotions!! I would much rather "waste" a SMALL amount of money in the markets than waste a LARGE amount of time on a...

I must say that the idea of paper trading does not appeal to me as people have said - there are no emotions as nothing is at stake. Being new to trading index futures I have started trading in the smallest amounts available - via finspreads. This amount is 1penny per point which I find does...

Yep, I'd already seen that one thanks - the thread title doesn't relate exactly to the book in question. Mutts

Unfortunately I can't see what you mean as I don't have access. Mutts

Pete Thanks for that. I am looking to test the Dow Index Future, on a 15 minute chart basis. The problem I have is getting access to those charts going back longer than, say, 7 days. End-of-day charts are obviously a lot easier to obtain, but of no use to me. Mutts

I read with interest the Training section here on ET, accepting that its built around Tradestation platform. However, I wonder what other options there are? Mutters

I've had this book recommended to me, but can't find any real "proof" that is any good - it doesn't seem to be on any trading web-sites top books lists. Anybody who's read it like to comment about wether its one of the best, if not the best, book youve read? Mutts

I appreciate all the responses so far. I have found these indicators (includes ones above) which fall into all categories identified by Grub109 and also within volume only and volume/price combined. Obviously some groups of these are varaitions of a theme. 1) Accumulation/ Distribution...

waggie945 Can you explain what this pricing involves - $0.25 per side. Does this mean you only get charged when you place a trade? i.e. the software and data feed is effectively free?

hoodooman Is this an indicator that is provided with charting software or a "roll-your-own" calculation?

Hi Can anybody point me to the usual suspects? I would like a feed that includes volume. Any idea of subscription fees and in-built charting would be very useful also. Regards Mutts

Sorry, I don't get your meaning, WDGann.

Any views? My (basic) research seems to say the only price and time are factors. Please correct me. Mutters

Thanks for all the responses so far. So if I understand, consensus seems to be that TA uses price, time and volume to feed into its analysis. In which case, how important is raw volume? Let me explain my agenda for this thread - I wanted a view as to the validity of using a data feed that...

Hi Apologies for the basic nature of this question. I was wondering if CBOT is the only exchange from which I can get a live datafeed on these contracts. I heard that Eurex may provide this feed also. Or am I getting confused between originating exchange providing the data, and other...

Hi Murray t turtle - Afraid I may have misphrased my post above - sure I can see price is hugely relevant - I guess I was just wanting to isolate my question to volume as a primary indicator vs TA as a primary indicator. 50c - thanks for that.

Being relatively green on trading - I'm receiving conflicting information. On the one hand volume is the main, reliable, tradable indicator. On the other, TA such as Stochastics and MACD combined are. I have two questions: 1) Is there any relationship between underlying volume and TA...