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...I'll bite. Did you backtest it? Don't want to waste my time doing it if you already have. Thanks. - Mike

...agreed. But if you hang in there those AM WRB's will overcome the small losers. The trick is to be on the right side of the news which spawns them, IMO. Re ORBs, a couple of weeks ago I tested the much ballyhooed 30 minute ORB on NQ. It works so badly it's better to fade it. Best regards...

...under what name are you published, if I may ask? TIA.

...well, doc, it may have been a grand question but you cut it down to size. I think Larry Pesavento was the first to say "You're not looking in a monitor, you're looking in a mirror." I agree with you that Mark Douglas has the problem nailed. In addition I like Dr. Elder's perspective relating...

...thanks for answering my question so thoroughly. Reading your response I was struck by how radically our viewpoints differ on trading. I am a lousy trader. I will ALWAYS be a lousy trader. I don't even WANT to be a good trader. Here's why: I will never be able to trade as intuitively...

...a pleasure to talk to you. We must have some common trading interests as we often wind up in the same threads. The reason I trade the open (NQ we're talking here) is sheer necessity. I have a day job that pays 20X a day what I currently make trading, so it is an unfortunate necessity to go to...

...these technical arguments are way over my head, but one thing you mentioned struck a chord, the word "scam". I am not making as much money as I would like, or improving that situation as fast as I would like. If you are knowledgeable about scams which have been successfully perpetrated here...

...all very astute observations. Your comments on breakout systems are of particular interest to me. If I were advising someone jsut starting out, I would recommend a breakout system. They may not make much money relative to the total move, but in my experience they are steady earners. Re the...

...yeah, I'm with you on volume. I feel really stupid trying to follow the volume-related parts of Grob109's postings and those of the similarly minded. I devote a tiny sliver of my screen to volume, but only in the vain hope that I will eventually see something that clicks. Since my account...

...please excuse the slight digression, but having a bit more than passing understanding of NLP, what's a poor trader to do who's an auditory or a kinesthetic, who can't see the pictures? Sorry. Please keep up the excellent explication of the method.

...my post was not aimed negatively at you, and I intended no offense. I don't personally know any of the posters here, they're just electronic phantoms to me. There are days when some posts seem to be written by word salad generators. I was merely drawing an historical parallel which I thought...

..independent of the immensely entertaining furor over Grob109 (which seems to intensify outside of RMH), I would like to take issue with your position that a trading approach can't be put on one page for all to see. The simple-minded but profitable mechanical system strategies I develop have on...

...so you'll trade a thin market? I made money last Christmas vacation, but it was sweaty armpits all the way. I hate seeing my own prints.

...is energetic. I only trade the first 60. Shortly I will post directions to my website, where you may participate in a big bucks lotto predicting how long it will take before this thread is hijacked.

What will YOU do on Columbus day?

...if so, t'would be in a time-honored tradition. Benjamin Franklin wrote letters-to-the-editor to his own newpaper using whimsical Swiftian pseudonyms to generate debate on important issues. In these he regularly flamed his opponents!

...I trade a morning breakout system, and it typically doesn't trigger trades on days when there are no significant news announcements scheduled. That's also why, I presume, there tends to be little opening volume on those days. Haven't tried to run a correlation, just an impression.

...maintenent je comprends. Vous etes un vrai "trou noir" des idees. Vous acceptez tout, vous ne donnez rien! Bon weekend.

...E-Signal does not.

...for E-Signal's strategy development and backtesting capability. Cheap, cheap, fo' a po' boy. It's the real "easy language" (the other one is a real HardLanguage). Glad to engage in any dialogue on system development.