Quote from Joab:
Jack,
I'm by no means trying to circumvent the process but being at a disadvantage of time and not being a student of the Equities Journal I was under the belief that it would be possible to jump in to this Futures Journal without the all the benefits of understanding the Equities processes?
If I'm incorrect in this thinking please tell me now and I can revisit this when I can dedicate more time to studying the entire process.
Mucho appreciated 
I was just trying to be responsive to you.
Spyder is suggesting the route and his advice is, as they say, priceless.
People can choose. For me, were I you, I would just not get anxious about keeping current and following the suggestions of Spyder.
Spyder (Todd) is a very special person. It is not hard to explain why what he says has the stongest basis you will ever see imparted by a person.
He is a person who is devoted to the well being and success of others and he has been through what he is speaking about.
Simply stated, you are not going to see anyone else connect with others in the manner that he does and with the concern that he has for giving a person the "fix" that is called for.
You are a positive contributing person as well. Communication here is only so effective. Stick with this and proceed. It may be that someone lives near you (see profile). I was at a brunch this am of 16 people who are part of Tucson IBD. One of the members hosted. It did not matter who was next to whom, there was some exchanging going on about something or other. We broke up at 2:30 after a 10:30 beginning.
It is hard to say to you at this point, but all of these people a while back were just starting out. Now, most of them are in the category of passing it forward.
As you work through the information that Spyder put up front, always be sure to ask about anything that comes up. My main goal was to help you see that annotating price and volume would put you, immediately, in a place of being connected to the markets.
We all are so glad that you are getting involved and everything will fall in place fairly rapidly for you.
EDIT: Spyder posted while I was formulating this response. In particular he explained the "paradigm" for learning under way here as compared to the Rocket>>iceberg>> sct older route.
Both are low risk strategies and ,personally, I find that the FTT route has as the drug industry would say, less side effects.
The emphasis on things rolling along and then the FTT coming into the picture is, again, priceless for "no side effects" in considering continually the main event.
As MAK says this is a tag team event here and someone will pop in and help with whatever comes up.
