The "Appearance" Agenda

and attempting to converge all the different opinions, ways of following market etc.. looks like focus leans towards enhancing knowledge, deriving useful data and research more than money, hope or investment (but resulting in something monetary down the line of course;)..

thinking over last few months of posts and more, it looks like we end up with: short-term trading (from high-frequency to one week say), indices and currencies, inter/intra-market dependancies, big caps and their influence (timing/outlook), sectors, identification/picking, volume, momentum indicators, breadth, hedging perhaps even modelling and volatility..

More I look at it it rings of an attempt to concentrate on array of the above over the coming weeks and work towards something common, either data source or software or something that does the job of alerting, classifying or warning signals or just plain giving nothing useful statistically or without manual input but crucially 'tweakable' .. just to see what can be learned and times it works or doesn't..

Sure, you have x kind of systems out there on sale, but I am not aiming for a buy/sell signalling revolutionary movement ;-), just report of a true or odd picture in a condensed or more readable format than chaos of hope, frustration and/or dispair regurarly thrown-in out there on a daily basis.. BB is a pretty informal way to exchange observations, short-term happiness of a position, wasteful, valuable or derived information... pick one ;) Systems work great and fail, and they all base themselves on pretty crude mechanics incapable of outperforming what institutions have with their modelling and market making might..

Just a sketch of x random thoughts for the new year..