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Does anyone know how to colour code line slopes or place markers on the price chart in the GFT chartbook package? I've managed to sort myself out a simple MACD but haven't got a clue what to next. It works ok eyeballing the lines but I get envious seeing all these little dots on the tradestation...

Dod, yes indeed your suggestion of weekly/daily charts is a good one, and the cci signals do show some excellent moves on those timeframes, but they don't trigger that often and stops need to be very large. Still, I keep an eye on them and am looking to keep one account separate to trade those...

I've found the combination of cci patterns and 34 combo as used by fitzy and gboo7 to be very useful, although I must say that if I had to dump one and keep one I would keep the 34 ema. The cci just gives a nice visual of when to enter a pullback but if you have a nice slope on the 34 anyway its...

I also tried setiing this up with a 34 ema as long trend, and a 16 period sma of a 14 cci, and the 14 cci as the medium and short trendlines and they throw up some good signals on a 4 hr chart. I tried this as the book does say the it's the concept and price that is the key, not the actual...

Tis has happened to me twice in the past 3 years with different machines, most recently last weekend. It is typical of an overheating cpu - I got a warning that it was too hot, but I think whether you get an actual warning or not depends on your setup. Anyway, that was the kiss of death for...

Has anyone read this ebook? It's got to be one of the best trading book titles ever written, but is it actually any good? I can't find anything here on searches, apparently it advocates scaling in a price zone and using a median technique to help gauge entry and exit. There's a thread on the...

Joe Ross has a method a bit like this in one of his books - one of his methods of determining trend change is to start counting lower highs/higher lows. When he gets to 3 successive lower ones he will go short on the break low of the bar that made the third lower low. I haven't really tried it...

I emailed the guy: Reversal Magic is a time based method of trading that uses the geometry of the markets. In a sense it is an indicator, but not as we normally think of indicators. It is manually determined (although it does have a mathematical equation that could be set up as an indicator)...

I've also been using variations of it, mainly on forex and with longer time spans. Robust trendline breaks on 60 min charts are very effective, especially with divergences, as are hooks from extreme on 480 min charts. I use more price patterns these days, but aside from a few emas it is the...

Thanks very much to you both for taking the time to reply. The reason i was asking was that I spend a lot of evenings in a Hotcomm room, but 95% of the guys are american and a lot of them do these covered calls on the side. There have been a lot of discussion about them, but obviously biased...

Some great stuff here, not sure I'm totally ready for the dark side though, but I do often trade with just the 34 ema. Usually use some cci as well though. But tonight was a great example of waiting until 14.00 EST and then taking the first decent signal whatever you do - for price only trading...

Thanks for those replies, but RogerM - can I ask you one more question about what happens if the share price rises strongly? If this is the case, can't you just sit it out, wait for your shares to be called and accept that although you haven't made as much profit as when owning the shares...

I've been trading ES with a spreadbet account for about 16 months and am going to start with an IB account shortly. This also opens up opportunities for extending my investments and i have been looking closely at covered calls. However, this whole options field is totally new to me and there are...

ChartMan, I'm willing to divulge my loss making system for nothing :D ps. thanks for the networking help - got a router on order as the first step.

Hi everyone, I'm now 5 weeks into spreadbetting using real cash with CMC after a few months paper trading previously. I'm up 19% at present, but have had 5 losing trades on the trot - i was up 32% last weekend. I enter all trades into a spreadsheet for analysing results. I seem to be torn...