At that time of ET, there were many skilled traders using methods that were Fairly successful.
Times have changed and now only short posts prevail.
That thread was discussing how to "read" markets and it progressed to a point where capable people were reading the DOM in exacting ways.
It was very possible to "see" various types of smart and big money players and converse about it among ourselves.Spd has it correct. The vocabulary of those days was kind of telegraphic and skilled people caught on in a New York minute. Today, it doesn't mean anything because, mostly, spd types can't carry on a conversation.
On DOM games are played. An attachment I made in 2007 explained this.
I assigned jersey colors to the types of players who played specific games.
In real time, events and their context would require a person to speak at four times the speed of normal talking. By making videos and narrating them slightly ahead of what is going to happen, it allows people to steer and focus on the important places and just what the signals are that are important.
Anyone can recover those past days by reading the exchanges and learning how to excel in trading.
Books do not get into actual expositions of how the market works. A while back webb sites did. Today's electronics have replaced those forums of the past.
