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No, Spyder is in Tucson at the moment. He's working with Jack on various aspects of the futures and equities trading and should return to posting "full time" shortly after the first of Februrary. -Au

LOL - touche' It wasn't intended as a ding against you or anyone else - it was a way to say to everyone - "Hey, there is some good information at the beginning of the journal - be sure to review it at times" and to bring a "perfect" picture to the discussion. My apologies for any offense!

And we come full circle to this link from the first page. :p

The point being made is simply this - while using volume bars may have it's merits - it is not part of the current curriculum. I suspect it would be best to wait for now on opening this can of worms.

I know you posed the question to Mak, but I believe I can help out here. He's captured a data set of 1606 5 minute bars (see lower right) of volume and price range (I'm assuming HL). He then sorted those bars based on volume, from lowest to highest, and took ~160 bars to form a group (a...

Mak - Interesting commentary. While I think I know what you mean when you say "volume pace", rather than assume - would you please define this? Thanks -Au

Spyder's definition of a breakout. In the picture above, it's where the price crosses the RTL of the long channel.

YES! Go BACK to here and DO what you were told to do originally.

I'd suggest demo'ing Camtasia - hook yourself up to a mic and go to town. It will capture everything in real time, permitting you to go back over it later on.

I usually put channels on at the daily and weekly level. Sometimes I'll take a look at the 15 just to see how things are progressing. This post by Icarus618 is really beneficial, in my opinion. Certainly, but it's more effort. Personally I hate doing unnecessary work. I think...

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=km0VlS8yGzE :p

PointOne made such an excellent commentary on the FTT here that I wanted to point it out. Thanks PointOne - and I look forward to your input as we move forward in '07.

Joab, Add a price line study (not sure what it's called exactly) onto the volume pane. Go into the properties of the study, and set the constant value to be e.g. 10k. It will show up as a solid line then on volume - repeat as needed. Personally, I would advise you to not use Ensign as a...

Thank you - and thank you for starting this journal. I wish each a prosperous and enjoyable New Year! :)

None taken Hypo, and I better understand your viewpoint. Will you be running concurrent tests on the NQ, using a different timeframe?

FTT has been defined. Since BO and FBO are part of the beginner identification and action sequence, could we define those also? My understanding (correctly or not) is that a breakout occurs when price crosses the current right trendline to the "outside" of the channel. In other words...

I've always understood the statement to be an IF...THEN construct. IF sufficient liquidity exists in the given market on the given timeframe, THEN the FTT works (on that timeframe.) I see via your comments that someone could take the original statement to mean something else (e.g. if there is...

It is not the stated purpose (nor, I do believe, the implied purpose) to convince anyone of anything. If anyone has negative thoughts or doubts, the responsibility for extinguishing them lies solely with the bearer.

Choosing the 5 minute timeframe isn't a rule per se - it's a way to establish a common framework for the people working on the material here. Most likely the 5 minute was chosen because it's fast enough to get regular feedback, yet slow enough for a human to operate effectively on. Or maybe...