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Gleno, what do you call that?? Is that one of your Famous Bear Flags?? Call It Like Ya See It, you got a record to uphold!!
LOL,
bobjack
scott64, go to "other" on right of tools in the top menu bar of the iHub page (not your browser), upload your picture, and paste the link (returned from photothingie)into your page,
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FireFox 3.0 RC1 is Out Now,
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Hi Frank, SSG very recently looks like a 2.5X or 3X Inverse Fund.
Is that normal, or has it just over-reacted recently??
Are you still looking to grab it again?
You had my attention on this and I finally got on board, but was stopped out like yourself,
bobjack
Susie924, You could try a rollback to a few days earlier if it is available --
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Susie924, For any serious printing problems, I first cancel all print jobs and reboot the computer and printer (unplug printer power cord if you have to).
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Willie, Is it over, or back up 1 more time, dumped my mvv and got a few ssg with Frank :) HUH, FRANK
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Gleno, ADX(14) on a weekly chart is like your 65,90,12 macd,
it does not respond to quick changes (relative terms).
ADX only tells if there is a trend, NOT, direction, where the DMI + and - show direction of trends. Therefore the ADX has to drop from showing a large downtrend to RESET, so that it can Start Going Up again to Show An Uptrend Starting, and Vice Versa.
Look at the same chart, except set to daily instead of weekly, you will see the ADX showing The Change In Trend, ESPECIALLY If You Set ADX to 10.
OR, set The ADX to 3 Days while on the Weekly Chart, You Will Also See The Change In Trend.
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Best Is To Watch The Same Chart in:
60 Min
Daily
Weekly
Monthly Modes -- you see all the trends
BUT, You Already Knew That, Didn't You.
Thanks For The Charts You Posted For Myself and Be,
I Use Them Everyday!!!
bobjack
Willie, FWIW, your newest chart shows a possible diamond formation,
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Hi Willie, Another Look At Your Chart
From A Channel Perspective,
Showing That Broadening Top in The Up Channel,
thanks for continually updating your charts,
AND thanks to all the rest of you that throw
out your views, sometimes in disagreement, BUT,
as the market has proven, Not One is correct
all the time -- the disagreement brings forth most of the possibilities, again, THANKS to ALL of You,
bobjack
Hi LC, DMI-9 and Chaikin OSC on a PnF Chart Look pretty Weird,
Are you switching back and forth between PnF and Candlesticks (to monitor Price/PnF and Candle/DMI/Chaikin Osc)??
tia,
with a chart showing full screen in QT, I just have to start typing a new ticker and a pop-up box for the new ticker appears with the new ticker showing in the white box in the pop-up.
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Broadening Tops - Failed and Successful
1 Definition
http://www.streetauthority.com/terms/b/broadeningtop.asp
"Broadening Top Pattern
WHEN YOU SEE A BROADENING TOP, THE MARKET WILL EVENTUALLY DROP
Major reversals in trend--those that mark the turn from a bull to a bear market--can take the shape of many price patterns.
Stocks or markets can top by creating, for example, head and shoulders or descending triangles. One of the most difficult
patterns to predict, however, is the broadening top.
A broadening top is hard for the swing trader to spot because it is seen far less frequently than other important price
patterns. It can be visualized, however, as opposite to a symmetrical triangle. Whereas the symmetrical triangle consists
of two lines that converge, the trendlines of the broadening top instead diverge. The shape that best captures this pattern is
that of a megaphone.
The classic technical analysis text by Edwards and Magee characterizes a broadening top as a market that lacks
intelligent sponsorship. It is one in which the public is being whipped around and driven this way and that by rumors. As such,
volume during the broadening top pattern tends to be irregular. During some rallies volume may expand, but during others it
tends to be tepid. The same pattern applies on pullbacks. Because it is so unpredictable, the broadening top pattern is
extremely difficult to trade. There is no clear breakout to either the upside or downside edge of the pattern.
Below is an example of a stock that is in a broadening top pattern, Boise Cascade (BCC). I started the chart in December
2003, just before the formation began in January 2004. Note the lower lows in February and March, which mark the beginning of
the formation. However, also note the ability of BCC to continue to make marginal new highs. In fact, toward the end of this
chart it reached a new high peak of $37.80 (although as the star candle shows, it quickly retreated from this level). Note the
erratic volume pattern, as the stock saw a pickup in volume on both rallies and declines.
Below you will find a chart of the S&P 500.]/b] I have included the 150-day moving average to show that prices have
gone below this key measure but have now popped back above it. Within the context of a broadening top, the S&P could reach a
marginal new high of say 1170 without changing this pattern's interpretation.
What would cause me to reject the broadening top interpretation?
First, the S&P would have to break out above 1163.
Second, it would have to hold the breakout level on a pullback.
And third, it would need to re-establish an uptrend by making a series of higher lows and higher highs.
Such behavior would keep the index above a rising 150-day moving average and would turn the March-May pattern of lower lows into
an aberration. Time will tell if the buying power remains to
re-ignite this kind of bull market. Until proven otherwise, however, the broadening top explains the market's current choppy
action." End Article Quote
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Looking at the past and present, these charts show some POSSIBLE "Failed and Successful" B/T's or Megaphones,
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Susie924, "I went to the Verizon site to troubleshoot and they say I don't have an e-mail address with that name in Outlook.
They ask if I want to creat a new one and when I go there, all the information for my existing one is there!"
When you say,"when I go there", you do mean, when you go to "accounts" In Outlook, Right??
I have had to delete my accounts on occasion,
(In Outlook Express, That is),
and re-create the same account as a new account and then my email was totally functional again -- happened to me and a few fiends over the last 5 years, but not very often tho!!
bobjack
The Bottom Address Choice from imageshack is the one you want to use, BUT, you must delete the http:// from the address:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3871/vixspx425ep4.png
will become
img181.imageshack.us/img181/3871/vixspx425ep4.png
with your "chart" and "/chart" before and after.
You can see if it works in the message preview, it it doesn't, just go back to edit message again
Deva, here's one of chart posting "How-To's":
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1277
your chart would be posted as:
chart img181.imageshack.us/img181/3871/vixspx425ep4.png /chart
chart and /chart should be enclosed in brackets [ ] , just like b and /b are enclosed in brackets for BOLD
BTW, thanks for your posts,
bobjack
Sure, Dell has em for sure:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
And if you hate Dell, look at this link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+notebook+computer+new+sale&btnG=Search
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I don't follow OIH, but he got my attention -- OIH is up from low of 160 to High of 208.5 today (about 30%) without any real correction -- looks due for a haircut of about 1/3 of that rise.
don't know what his reasoning was. I won't play with it anyway -- just watching, he is pretty slick,
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Farooq is not long OIH -- He said,"I am going long OIH May 210 puts at 9.00." -- He's Going Short thru the puts.
Hi Dan, Will you venture an opinion on what LVS is going to do if the short term bottom is in -- it has not popped like the indices this morning??
TIA,
bobjack
Hey Gleno, I like that 5-min "be-chart" also , Thanks Again,
got it marked,
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Dang Gleno, I asked for a 12oz Latte and you gave me a 20oz Latte,
THANK YOU BERRY MUCH,
I am Bookmarking Them,
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Hi Gleno, Will you please add $NDX, $TRINQ, and $NAUPV:$NADNV to the indicators, as Price Iindicators on your $NAADV:$NADEC chart.
tia,
bobjack
ukie, why don't you just transfer the tax data file from the old hard drive to a memory stick (thumb drive) and then to the new computer. Forget the cd business,
good luck,
bobjack
Aire88bro, That is certainly a shocker, and will cause hundreds of us to pause and remember him, as well as your family.
Our prayers are certainly with Aire's immediate family, as well as your whole family.
He, Like Zeeve Hed, will leave a void in these boards.
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Newly2b, Did you see the BLURBS about FireFox 3.
I installed it and it is great, I also keep tons of windows open, AND now even more open with FF3.
I have 54 open now, just kept opening one here and there gradually.
It's supposed to me MUCH faster that FF2 and IE6/7, they fixed memory leaks and such...
I LIKES it a lot.
Few minor user interface wrinkles to be ironed out for the final release.
I can't get hold of Beta 5 yet -- I have Beta 4 only.
bobjack
Good Show there Mr Smith, I still have no ability to follow intraday,
Keep up the good work,
bobjack
AMEN, AMEN, and AA-MENN!!!
Hokay Mr Smith, I hear ya, :),
as it turns out, today I never had a chance to check on Mr Smith except before 8 am and after 5 pm. Terrible day at work... My congrats to you! Them 50centers ya bought this afternoon exp tomorrow, right? You be brave today, Sir!
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Hi Bliss, dumped my xle options at about 10 til 4 today.
ended up close to even, didn't wanna tempt fate since fri was expiration. been sporadic about being able to peek at the market at work.
cheers,
bobjack
Yup, hoping to be in these no more than 2 weeks on the last two, and actually extremely afraid of the decay on xle n qqq (die fri). They were not wise choices.
I'll probably just keep eatin my peanut butter fudge and try to chill n not think about the decay. Peanut Butter Fudge soothes me, but sometimes (often) gives me indigestion -- hoping not to get it this time. I have a bad habit of eating too much of it. A reasonable portion with proper time between pigging out events will probably allow me to enjoy and not pay too severely for lack of self control. I have to watch my pigging literally and figuratively. I have lots of stomach problems,
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Hey Free, I went with a real creamy peanut butter fudge (with peanuts and marshmallos swimmin in it) the other day. A lady at church made it. Much lighter than reg peanut butter fudge, and very creamy (melt in your mouth).
As an aside, i bot MDYCN -- 1@5.60 wed morn and 1@4.90 thur morn.
my xle's n qqqq's gonna expire worthless next week if we don't get a jam job this week,.
bobjack
Tweety, is there a Q & A or troubleshooting source at the netflix site. You might get some info there, or try searching for similar problems and solutions on the whole web thru google
good luck,
bobjack
Tweety, you'll probably get more responses later today.
You can post to the dream machines board also.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=2128
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your video software??
that might help -- you will prob get better ideas from bruce or wccaa when they see your posts,
bobjack
Tweety, try to find your windoz system restore and set your computer back to an earlier restore point -- maybe a few weeks ago. My win system restore (HP Desktop Computer Win XP)is in my:
start --> programs --> PC Help & Tools --> system restore
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Hi Free, Sorry bout the late reply -- been back to work for a week and it's killin me -- by evening, I am ready for bed. Thanks for your reply, and some more good ideas.
James Altucher is a name that I have never heard before.
I am considering an option play on next piggie -- NAH, I thought about it, but I guess I am not considering it.
Got too old, senile, and soft, gotta go to bed,
bobjack
Hi Dan, Looks like an inverse relationship to me -- 370 down and 11 up -- so 100 up on dow should be 2.973 down on goog if inverse relationship held -- , the footster was off by a factor of 10 and a minus sign. I read it wrong the first time too, Foot.
Funny thing would be to see goog go up 29.73 tomorrow. LOL
Gleno might whip us both over this..
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Hi John, I have three words to say to all this --
Druster --- Decisionmoose --- MVPsystem.
These three can painlessly achieve more % with same or less involvement. Decisionmoose trades at most once per week while druster and mvp can trade daily, BUT, normally do not.
druster n decisionmoose are free, while MVP is currently $45/month. MVP has highest gains, but is more complicated to trade. That said, we all like to fool around with trying to build a system and tweak things. It's the thrill of the chase, the same reason some go fishing or hunting, and the same as some going to garage sales or auctions to try to find that big deal that slipped past everyone else.
I am currently subscribed to MVP ( for about 6 or 8 weeks). It has been a bit painful for several reasons -- I got caught up in something called cross-opening -- a policy of my broker that gets different opening prices than AMEX (where MVP vehicles are trades) which was quite painful; and starting with MVP as it hit a short losing streak as all systems do. I have decided that I will never go all in whenever I try something new. Either papertrade or stage into a set of signals and never jump into the middle of a signal.
Those things would have made me a winner and been much less painful, and allowed me to trust a system and not jump out early or second guess a good system. I would have been profitable by now had I just trusted the signals :) -- (drawdown is scary and painful).
I am mentioning these three for profitability, NOT, Fun Factor.
I think maybe freemarkets is trading 2 or 3 of these system at once in different accounts/situations -- IRA and their limitations are easy with decisionmoose.
MVP works best with a marginable account.
They all have few years history to look at.
This is just my opinion and for consideration, while one plays and tinkers.
Nocona, Chico and many others have sorted out the intraday stuff quite well, had I tried papertrading as Chico and others have suggested, I would have been MUCH better off.
YA Know -- FOOLS RUSH IN!!!!
I Be One Big FOOL,
If you want to read about all three of these systems, read thru posts by mvpsignalsystem:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profile.asp?user=43947
you can join the druster and mvp groups on yahoo and just go to www.decisionmoose.com
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Hi Bliss, saw your post about 3:15 (while I was at work) and got a few (when I had a chance) at about 3.35 -- hada give .55 for em then. They were rising, and then I think they fell right after I bot em. LOL,
bobjack
edit: do you have a target for them -- I won't be able to monitor them all day, like I have been able to do, for several months.
John, Looked like getting out was a lot of the problem and was alluded to by gloe. Every normal fixed exit point seemed to leave a lot on the table (quite often) to me. I could not manage to get a trailing stop to work. A trailing stop by % might be useful, OR NOT. The problem with trailing stops appeared to be gaps and big reversal days. What do you think about that.
I am thinking the slingshot thing with cci(50) above 50/below -50, instead of zero, would give less triggers, but more likelihood of successful trades. The cci(6) dips/peaks certainly appear fairly often. I tried to use daily slingshot entries and 15 to 60 minute adx exits, but could never get my backtests to work out.
Stockcharts has an indicator called force which footquarters has had on some charts. The force (13) looked promising. I have played visually with Williams %R above/below zero and moving average cross' for Williams %R (30) and (50). Using them for exit on 30 to 90 min periods might offer something, but would not work for you, where the %/$ trailing stop could work for you.
Sheet, mon, IF I knew anything, I would be dangerous. 1% sure does not leave much margin for error, does it. With my luck, the 1% avg winners would habitually turn into 5% losers.
Thanks for all your effort!!
bobjack
Hi Bliss, THANKS for thinkin of me. I was at work today (back at my old job -- off n on, for a while) and looked at ihub a couple of times for just a few minutes (last time was bout 1:30). Just catching up tonight, and saw your message.
I was ticked about missin the post and then pulled up a 5 min chart of XLE. It made a sharp rise at 2 pm and a dive right after you posted at 3 pm. + 2.5 and then - 2.5 for a round trip of $5 in 2 hrs. I might be home friday --if we get freezing rain thur night.
take care,
bobjack