Quote from MAESTRO:
Now that is a good question! In order to answer it let us think of what characteristics of the environment are crucial to us when we drive a car or fly a plane. Many researchers (including myself) agree that the most critical component of the information about our environment is the frame of reference. It enables us to create our decisions both in time and space and it is the most fundamental knowledge that is required to make the right decisions. The more efficiently we as humans can get this information the faster, better, more accurate decisions we can make. If we also can represent this information in a format that enables us to use our sub-consciousness we then can free up our Logic and start to adapt to the environment much better. One of the ways to achieve this enhancement is by creating much more intuitive visualization devices that could convert the signal into a shape or an image that triggers our visual cortex abilities to intuitively recognize it. That is what I am working on in a nutshell.
Hence your well-justified pride in your emphatic big red down arrow. Would your ideal trading workspace have no charts at all in it, just instantly recognizable icons like a stopsign or a yield sign or a rad-hazard sign or a mens room sign? Actually, I am with you on this to some extent because all twelve of my indicators are in stoplight form or slight variants thereof.
For example, if volatoilety is low, would you have a commode on your workspace?
BTW, don't feel that you have to respond to me just to be nice. Nobody else here is. But it may say something about your thesis if I am the only one actively responding. As we say in NLP, "The meaning of your communication is the response you get." Or perhaps the responder.