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great thank you david, I appreciate you sharing your insights. divergence which you mentioned appears to be a promising area for me to research further. lead/lag I have looked at quite a bit, is not stable. all the best

Thank you david and bob for the links. much appreciated. intuitively I always think there is an edge in using custom indices and custom mkt breath studies. but never been able to program them in properly. I have looked at mkt internals quite a bit over the past couple of weeks, i find and...

being stupid takes much practice -:)

david22, thank you for your reply, very informative. I have thought about creating a custom mkt breath index off a list of stocks. but as a tradestation use wasn't sure how to go about doing it. are you saying do it programatically? so a custom index of 10 stocks, programatically capture...

yes I understand your point about confusion by looking at too much. For trading the ES, I have been experimenting with various internals, even trying to combine internals, but not much luck so far. along the lines of what surinotes has developed. but I rather develop my own. Combine Market...

+1, great comment.

hello, just curious what would you do with custom index, how would you use it? Thanks.

Just curious if anyone uses market internals in their strategy design? Looking into it there appears to be a bewildering array of choices. Over a dozen TICK indices alone. Any thoughts on the use or misuse of mkt internals would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. $TICK = 5479 NYSE...

what would you do with that information? just curious. someone mentioned x-trader. I didn't think CME provided this information. X_TRADER® 7 provides integrated charting with X_STUDY™. Major enhancements to MD Trader®, include the ability to convert Treasury prices to yield and view...

little pekelo is probably hiding under his desk after reading the above. you are right about the casinos going after the big fish. There are stories every year of people losing 100's of million of dollars...

I believe this is still true. DTNIQ data feed is the best. If you do a trail, zenfire provides free data but no historical backfill.

I believe this is where reading price action pays off. reading price action (al brooks style) offers many clues to guage the 'strength' of a breakout and the subsequent trend. properly reading the context is also important. what type of trading day is it? Trend or Trading range. Is this...

One of Art Deco's recent threads was about finding ways to pass on his trading system to his wife. hmm i wonder if his wife did him in, couldn't wait. also I think redneck and AD both from texas were planning on meeting up at some convention. maybe they hit it off and are now happily married.

I think you guys are unfairly putting down people who frequent casinos. Most I would say, well over 70% go there for entertainment. I mean the entertainment of gambling, and the fun of it. We have a neighbour few doors down, a retired dentist, his wife has MS. They fly out to vegas every three...

Mark, good post as usual. I think I understand what you are saying about intuition. I believe it is very hard to seperate random results and role of luck from intuition. In your football touchdown example, for every one success there are nine other failures, which we never hear about. NoDoji...

Mark, I find it hard to believe that there are traders making trading decisions based intuition and are profitable? Could it be that these traders are just not aware of their decision making process. Doctors, experienced doctors, old doctors have been know to diagnose patients intuitively...

The op asks a serious question and 10 replies on erectile dysfunction. didn't know there we so many limp traders on ET. I thought I was the only one. 20 points rise in BP is classic fight or flight response. That is why the old timers say good trading should be 'boring'. There are many...

Well the economy goes in cycles. When the tide comes in these students will find employment. There is no choice. The difference in salary of college grads vs non-grads is astounding. To get in through the door, a college degree is a must. yes, even english and history major is OK...

dollar trailing can be set on a per share/contract basis and also position size basis. I find that most strategies that I use, benefit from wide stops. I like to give a trade room to play itself out. Exits I seperate from stops. they mean very different things to me. for one short term...

Exits are hard to determine, but I do believe there are good/appropiate exits for each of the different types of strategies. One strategy i had, after testing many different exit types, the best fit was dollar trailing. For another, no exit method worked. the best which i found by...