Yes, NLP is the way to go. Many famous people have written books about applying NLP to Trading. For example, Ruth Barron-Roosevelt's "Exceptional Trading - The Mind Game" is perhaps the most well known.
I have also bought Tad James's "Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality" from...
A previous version of ZoneAlarm was a slow shutdown culprit for me.
I installed Microsoft's "User Profile Hive Cleanup Service" to fix it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b286e6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&DisplayLang=en
It made my shutdowns trouble free.
HTH
Paul
There is a very good video on this subject in the Articles section of this site by
Phil Newton called "15 Minute Break-out Strategy.
http://www.trade2win.com/knowledge/articles/general_articles/15-min-break-out-strategy/
It is the best advice on ORBs that I've seen.
All of your other...
Before getting carried away with this system I suggest everyone have a good read of
"Fooled By Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
(I suggest keeping a dictionary handy as almost every page had at least one word that I had to look up to make sure that I was not reading it out of context.)...