I thought I'd follow up on the Dirty Laundry Posts: One matter must always be considered. The market is influenced by an infinite number of variables. There is no magic formula, no perfect multiple regression that will unfailingly predict the market's direction. The guy with the fool proof black box does not last, or you would have read about him by now. Although no one has discovered El Dorado, certain people do emerge as consistent winners in the stock market or futures. They are outnumbered by losers. Fifty years ago, those consistent winners may have been the people who had the most access to inside information. There is virtually no inside information today that will dramtically move the market as a whole. Yet there are still consistent winners in the markets. Can market feel really help if stock prices do indeed take a random walk? Consider a migrating goose. It may appear to be on some sort of random flight, but an ornithologist who has studied the behaviour of geese in similar circumstances might feel comfortable makinf certain predictions about a particular bird. If it's October, that goose is flying south even if it temporarily changes direction for no apparent reason. Maybe it tends to fly at between 1,200 and 1,800 feet. It usually follows a leader. The more you study the more you know. Even the experts won't know where the thing will land. But to them its flight odes not appear quite so random. So what is this mysterious market feel? Developing a sense of how the market has reacted to similar circumstances. Assessing what is different about this situation. Talking to eople because they may have thought of something you overlooked. Assimilating new information quickly. Adhering to rules to keep losses small enough to minimize the amount netted out from the gains. Playing the percentages. Maybe a facility for numbers. Maybe a dash of luck. Perhaps ten years of experience, rather than one year of experience repeated ten times over. I'd be happy to continue discussions with interested parties since I have copious amounts of spare time. Right now though, it's write code time. Reagards, Istvan