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[Conrad]

Thanks Clive,

I get the drift of your point about different trading strategies in response to what the stock price is actually doing. I concluded something like this is especially true for my idea of the progressive Trading ladder as referenced form the Mid Point. . .by definition the trades size =0 there and low amplitude cycling about the midpoint would point to regular Vortex AIMing there with high aggression factors. . For standard AIM I think this means using negative SAFES. But stock prices behaving as they do often just change doing what they wee doing and therefore one has to be on the ball every day to try to capture that change appropriately.
For me the most difficult thing that remains to program the things I have figured out so that the trading system responds to the change in price behaviour.

The Trades you showed and the Fractional Increase to the bottom I have the trade ladder and the Fractional change like this. . .I try to show it here as you showed me:

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No, it does not work, so I will show the link itself:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30976&id=100000376827032&saved#!/photo.php?fbid=169128376443055&set=a.169128193109740.30976.100000376827032

This distribution of trades is quite different. . . as I have it in mind. Your linear trade size from the top down covers 100% of the range. In my case I have the Ladder split in top-side and a bottom-side. I understand that in your example "stepping out" towards the top takes smaller and smaller steps and "stepping in towards the bottom you the buys get larger. . .this makes sense.

Actually I wanted make a post on this topic but you beat me to it.

This way of trade distribution you have shown is actually how standard Vortex AIM works when the aggression factors are set equal. Automatically then the trades for selling get smaller towards the top and the buys get bigger towards the bottom.
By using different aggression factors this effect can be amplified:

Weak Selling and Strong Buying
Strong Selling and Weak Buying
Selling as strong as Buying

I suppose I do not need a ladder!