Software Used to Trade Jack Hershey Methods

pr0crast you once shared how you recorded the ES during the day and then played it back at 3x speed to practice drawing trend lines and gaussians...

Could you share again the software you used and the setups?

Edit: found pr0crasts post:

Camtasia

http://www.techsmith.com/download/default.asp

30 day free trial. I think it costs $40. For screen recording.

Virtualdub

http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

Open source, free. For video editing.

Funny you should mention this. Lately, I have been recording the market day with camtasia and speeding it up for "practice."

1. Record the entire day (even if you are absent for part of it) into a camtasia file, around 6 hours long and 700 megabytes.
2. Use a freeware program called Virtualdub to open the file.
3. Start camtasia recording your screen again.
4. Press and hold ALT and the right arrow on your keyboard to play the day in fast forward.
5. After 10 minutes or so, the day should be done. Stop recording and you have your first market "fastplay" video, clocking in at under 20 megabytes.

An example can be found here I have shown this video to a couple people who are trying to learn to spot the FTT, and both seemed to have multiple "aha" moments as a consequence of watching and rewatching the video.
 
Better tutorial for the camtasia stuff:

Follow these instructions to learn how to make a time-lapse video of the market.<!--break-->

1. Obtain a copy of Techsmith's Camtasia software (<a href="http://www.techsmith.com/purchase/default.asp">legally</a> or <a href="http://www.slyck.com/bt.php">otherwise</a>).

2. Install the software on your computer.

3. From the start menu, open the "Camtasia Recorder." This can be found within the "/Camtasia Studio 4/Applications/" folder. Do NOT open "Camtasia Studio."

4. After the Camtasia Recorder opens, open the Tools/Options window.

<img src="http://pr0crast.com/files/tutorial1.png">

5. Under the "capture" tab, set it to "save as .avi." Under the video tab, check time time-lapse box and then open the time-lapse settings window.

<img src="http://www.pr0crast.com/files/images/tutorial2.png">

6. Set your capture rate units to <b>minutes</b> and your playback rate units to <b>seconds</b>. Depending on how long you want your video to be, set these two numbers accordingly. If you want the entire market day compressed into a 12 minute video, set the first box to 10 and the second box to 5. This will play back the day at a rate of 1 minute per 2 seconds. If you want to slow it down so the video is 18 minutes long, set the first box to 12 and the second box 4.

<img src="http://pr0crast.com/files/timelapse.jpg">

7. Click "OK."

8. Set your recording area.

<img src="http://pr0crast.com/files/tutorial3.png">

9. Click the <img src="http://pr0crast.com/files/tutorial4.png"> button to begin recording, and press F10 to stop. Make sure to click the "save" button when the preview window pops up or else you will lose your video.
 
Quote from bi9foot:

Why should jack pay it forward?. The man has been generous enough to give away this method to anyone who would listen and do the work.

Why should he provide the automated code to anyone? So that anyone that is not willing to do the work can reap the rewards?

If anything, you could write the 'fully automated' code and give out for free as your way of paying it forward.
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I only mentioned about paying it forward, because Jack is always bragging about paying it forward. Just want to see whether he follows through!
 
Something cool to try in Quotetracker:

Right click your horizontal lines on the STR/SQU charts and choose to set trendline alerts. You can use custom audio, use a pop up, etc.

What I did is record .wav files of myself saying "STRETCH" and "SQUEEZE" and placed those alerts at +/-3 so if a serious STR/SQU happens and I'm not looking at it I'll have the heads-up.

It's very comforting to hear the words SQUEEZE SQUEEZE SQUEEZE when holding short :cool:
 
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