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Time was, from the Enlightenment to Ante-Bellum days, a gentleman could dabble in an expensive hobby without fear of being found odd (one would have said "queer" then, but this is now). Dilettantes, they were called. Or Renaissance men. They wrote poetry. Designed gardens. Created elaborate...

De temps en temps, I may post pithy (with a lisp) observations about how ET advertisers view us and how they approach us to get our binness. I was one bottle of Gloria into the morning, having made enough in one sweaty angst-filled 65 second trade to buy three, when the GFT Futures ad popped...

Professor Doaks' admonition to keep trading systems simple and binary has a psychological advantage as well. If in fact 95% of new traders go bust, the least the market can give them back for their money is an education. Not an education about markets, but about themselves. And the clearest...

Steve, I think you are on to something for us gerrie traders. I have traded from bed before while recovering from increasingly frequent illnesses. I follow the progression of feeling well enough to eat half a heavily-salted PB&J sandwich, to being able to stomach champagne, to discovering that I...

Greetings, Steve. I was summoned by the OP because I am ET's backup holistic wellness expert expert while Jack is en vacances (although he spells it wholistic, not being much of an etymologist). First, permit me to express my condolences at your incarceration, er, incapacitation. One trusts...

Spydertrader, just because you made fun of me I added hoot1.wav for an NQ spread of two ticks. Been getting hurt too much by that lately. Hard to make money with an expectancy of two ticks when a widened spread and the round trip commission takes it all away. Well, it does leave me 20 cents.

You have THREE girlfriends, BigHog?

Ah, yes, I play the overture to Don Giovanni at the end of the trading day when I look at my poor execution reports.

Where were you in prison? Where I was they didn't play good music. Which reminds me that I meant to mention another reason for using audibles. Perhaps you can perceive multiple separated parts of a visual presentation simultaneously, but I cannot. However, I can follow perfectly clearly all...

You may laugh, but you have not fully lived until you have experienced Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" at full electrostimulation amplification. But one must be careful not to let the lubricant sizzle.

Also I suppose it is safe to share, since so few here are actually reading this, my latest trading alert innovation. The trading industry is second only to the sex industry as a powerhouse of technological innovation. Throughout history, the sex industry has jumped on the bandwagon of new...

Given the recent positive responses to audible trading, I will share another gem with you. I use the .wav sounds Blip, Ding, cowbell and Boing to represent spreads from 3 to 6 ticks. An easily recognized scale in terms of horribleness. The key to setting audibles is to have them represent as...

Vienna, thanks for sharing your philosophy. As my students here know, my most famous statement is a shameless paraphrase of Carl Jung: "All trading is autobiography." Your trading speaks well of your character.

Condolences also. And thanks for describing the simple version of the method in a mere seventeen words. Very eloquent.

Ah, playing to the strains of "Tommy"! "He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist! A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist!" I am off to learn how to use this monster tool I have created. The world's greatest analyst and algorithmicist cannot trade for shit! Not even with 16 brains!

Spydie, thanks for the clarification. I knew there was some reason I couldn't follow the bouncing ball. But you recall that Jack DID originally recommend sweeping. I especially like your idea of harmony. That never occurred to me because I see the market as a pinball machine, with the ball...

To wrap up this little trifle, permit me to describe how I use audibles. I have a primary simple-shit system that works on a one-minute chart, highly tuned to NQ. I want to watch it closely for multiple scalps throughout the day, but I also want to take advantage of perhaps fifty rare events...

Now to return to SCT as an example system that might benefit from the use of audibles. I cannot imagine glueing one eye to fast YM and ES charts and the other to the DOM, while somehow trying to keep up with a myriad of slower events, all for 405 minutes a day, less piss breaks. So I would code...

TD, today was a relatively wide range day with a lot of range outside of yesterday's range. So there was not a lot of bunching up on the daily scale. But at the level of individual moves on the scale of minutes, there is always bunching up. That's where I trade, preferably inside long one-minute...

Nobody was talking to you Janed. MYOFB.