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Why not trade IWM? It moves tick by tick along with the e-mini russell. A little bit more commision but you can keep your routine.

HEre is the attachment Bonds Prior 2005.xls

Ben at tradersaudio has a bonds squawk. Sign up for a trial and see how it works for u. They used to post all the big options trades at the end of day. Not anymore now. Here is an attachment of the whole 2005 big options trade. U can see for urself whether it has any predictability. But from what i remember, i heard a lot of big boys bidding when we bottom on June 06. But anyway, i dont trade it anymore. I have found little success trading it. The crowd is too professional and not a good day trading market. This market almost exclusively move on reports and has limited range during non-report hours relative to the minimum tick size. I think it is good to position trade.

Bonds squawk are mostly on options and yield curve. Not much outright quotes. At least u know PIMCO and goldman are huge sellers of puts or buyers of calls, then u can develop a bias. Better than watching the screen's time & sales trying to figure out what the uptick and dntick means.

Maybe tape reading in the bonds isnt as useful as the dow. There are a lot of curve trades and locals scratching contracts that they got from the pit in the bonds. So, hitting the bid might just be the other leg of a yield curve trade. U might want to listen to the bonds squawk and get a feel for what goldman is doing in the pit.

Crude oil is useless unless you dont turn it into products. Most of trades on crude oil are spreads. That's what the exxon's of the world care. Not the price of crude. Maybe they are not market internals, but it is a industry internals. These spreads and oil prices are affecting each others, just like the S&P uptick because the NYSE tick is moving up. If crack spread move up, dont you think refiners would want to buy crude and run it thru the refineries?

IMO, there are actual market internals for crude. Crack spread, Gasoline spread, Heating spread, Back month spread, Nat Gas up down tick are all good clues for crude prices.

Here is the theard i started on TS. Looks like it is getting closer of being done. https://www.TradeStation.com/Discussions/Topic.aspx?Topic_ID=62261&Reply_ID=297233

Ok. Thanks!

Hi, Here it is: { This study plots the basic ActivityBar, together with a value area zone based on standard deviations around the ActivityBar's mode price. } inputs: ApproxNumRows( 10 ), { approx number of rows in each activity bar } CycleColors( true ), { The CycleColors input determines whether the color of cells is varied from one cell group to the next. This input has effect only when this study is applied to chart in which Data1 is daily or minute bars and when the hidden ActivityData is in minute bars. In all other cases, CycleColors is ignored - the cells are drawn in the color specified by the DefaultColor input. } DefaultColor( DarkGreen ), ModeType( -1 ), { 1= highest mode, -1 = lowest mode - see inline documentation in function AB_Mode for more information on this input } ZoneNumDevs( 1 ) ; { number of std devs on each side of mode price to be included in the AB Zone } variables: CellGroupColor( 0 ), MinuteInterval( BarInterval of ActivityData ), CellGroupLabel( "" ), oModeCount( 0 ), oModePrice( 0 ), SDev( 0 ), ZoneHi( 0 ), ZoneLo( 0 ) ; AB_SetRowHeight( AB_RowHeightCalc( ApproxNumRows, 3 ) ) ; if CycleColors then CellGroupColor = AB_NextColor( MinuteInterval ) of ActivityData else CellGroupColor = DefaultColor ; if CellGroupColor = GetBackGroundColor then CellGroupColor = DefaultColor ; CellGroupLabel = AB_NextLabel( MinuteInterval ) of ActivityData ; Value1 = AB_AddCellRange( High of ActivityData, Low of ActivityData, RightSide, CellGroupLabel, CellGroupColor, 0 ) ; Value2 = AB_Mode( RightSide, ModeType, oModeCount, oModePrice ) ; SDev = AB_StdDev( ZoneNumDevs, RightSide ) ; ZoneHi = MinList( High, oModePrice + SDev ) ; if ZoneHi = 0 then { ie, if oModePrice + SDev = 0 } ZoneHi = High ; ZoneLo = MaxList( Low, oModePrice - SDev ) ; { if oModePrice - SDev = 0 then ZoneLo = Low, so don't need a check here } AB_SetZone( ZoneHi, ZoneLo, RightSide ) ; Value2 = AB_AddCellRange( zonehi, zonelo, RightSide, CellGroupLabel, red, 0 ) ; I just added the last line to the default price distribution. Can you figure out a way to get it to plot the color between zonehi and zonelo?

Ant, I am trying to figure out a way to simulate a volume profile in activity bar. I figure using a 1 min interval in the activity bar gives a fairly good representation of the volume profile and it requires less calculation than using marketprofileplus on a one minute bar (See figure 1). The activity bar can calculate the value area with the function AB_SetZone. Although it doesnt seem as accurate as yours, but for a rough estimate, it is good enough. I try to paint the value area using the ZoneHi and ZoneLo in the activity bar code and added the follwoing line to the default price distribution indicator Value2 = AB_AddCellRange( zonehi, zonelo, RightSide, CellGroupLabel, red, 0 ) ; and came up with a painted area that doesnt fit within the value area bracket. (See Figure 2). What lines can i add to just tell tradestation to paint the bars within the zonehi and zonelo in a different color? Thank you in advance for your advice.

Probably. Canadian only problem. It's ok. I got out when i re-connect. No real loss, but loss in the expected value of the trade

I was kicked out twice in the 1st hour of trading and i called the desk to put the stop in and he said i was the only one. Am i really the only one?

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