SO there I was at the Alexis de Tocqueville dinner party, the soup was called something but it was really just corn chowder.....the salad was something else but it was really just field cuttings with a raspberry sauce dump over it.....the lobster and prime was just that lobster and prime but to hear it from the chef, I was like.....say what???? It had somthing under it, but it was just filling that we have during the holidays...but it was great.....

During the dinner, Jim Clayton, the founder of Clayton Homes came over and of course he bought his guitar, BUT, also in tow was Logan....now Logan was worth it all. She sang a number of song with Jim doing backup, The Cattle Call by Eddie Arnold, Down in the Valley by Slim Whitman, Grandpa and The Circle will be Unbroken. Now neither are pros which made it even more special as they acted and reacted to each other.

When you hear on the news about all the bad things out there and there are alot at times.......and then you see and hear a young lady with a special voice, you have to believe the world is OK......just wish Nancy Grace could see things as they are instead of trying to get the next big headlines......

Happy Birthday Hill.........don't get upset you're lookin great for a chick at 60

Dear former President Clinton,
I would be honored to sing “Happy Birthday Mrs. President” to your wife.
Marilyn Manson

Dear Mrs. Clinton,
How appropriate, year of the dog.
Happy Birthday anyway,
Monica Lewinsky

Happy B’Day, Hill!
Hef
P.S. I for one like the cleavage.

Happy Birthday Mrs. future President
You know if I was there I would throw the most extravagant party ever for you.
Number one Bundler,
Norman Hsu
Messa County Correctional Facility

Birthady feliz mi bonito.Las rosas rojas estan para ti y los cigarros estan para el “muchacho del amante”. Tu admirerer scret,
Fidel

Happy Birthday Hillary,
Thanks for your support and taking the time to have dinner with me in the Senate dinning room the other night. I understand that yet again my words got confused. When the waiter asked me how I like my lamb, I did not say, “pushing back,” I said “less fat.”
Your stalwart friend from Idaho,
Larry Craig

A very Happy Birthday Senator Clinton. You know you can count on me and my white Bronco to knife my way through Miami traffic when you’re campaigning in Florida.
Orenthal James Simpson

Happy Birthday, there, Hillary,
If you ever get a proclivity to Greek love, I’ll be there for ya.
Gamma Alpha Upsilon,
Rosie O’Donnell

Happy Birthday/Bonne fete
Sincerely,
Stephen J. Harper
The Loonie Prime Minister of Canada,

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
476 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Clinton,
We endorse your 60th birthday.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Publisher
New York Times
Joan Blades & Wes Boyd
MoveOn .org

Dear Senator Clinton,
Best wishes on your 60th.I hope you enjoy my Thighmaster Gold, to keep you tone and fit, just place it between your legs and squeeze.
Suzanne Somers

Happy Birthday, Hillary hope you and Bill enjoy this vintage (spring ’07) bottle of Blue Nun.
Ted
The Betty Ford Clinic

Dear Senator Clinton,
Many happy returns of the day,
Please, enjoy these flip flops next time you’re walking the sands of Iraq.
Respectively,
General David Petraus

Happy Birthday Senator Clinton,
Please accept this Isagenix 30 day President’s pak and 3 cases (2736 yds.) of ButlerWeave Floss as a jump start for your universal Health Care Plan.
Sincerely,
drbob

Happy Birthday Hillary,
Where, have the years gone? Gosh, it only seems like yesterday when you were on CBS’ 60 Minutes and said: “I’m not sitting here like some little woman ‘standing by my man’ like Tammy Wynette.”
Love,
Michelle Obama

Happy 62nd Birthday,
That’s right, we know, you were born in 1945 to a Walloon mother and a Flemish father while they were attending the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. They disappeared in 1959 during the Leopoldville riots in the Belgian Congo. You were flown on Trans Canada Airlines flight 1618 to Gander, Newfoundland in the spring of 1960 and came to the US at the small border crossing of Coburn Gore, Maine, disguised as a member of The Girls Choir of Harlem. The complete story will be in next month’s issue of Redbook, available on newstands November 8th.
Better living through truth,
The vast right-wing conspiracy

JAB

All I do is dream dream dream about you........

Day after day I dream about you, you are always on my mind, you are always there.....so I dream, about becoming the greatest trader in the world. I dream about a private jet to fly around in, a big house and fast cars....but it only a dream. I don't understand because there I am in that chat room....day after day and everyone is making money, I can read it....yea yea I bought it here and made 4 ticks, then 8 ticks and finished out the trade with 11 ticks.

But I can only sit here and dream of that day since I can't figure it out...I bought everything, I even attended the Advanced Workshop and still I sit here dreamin.....is that your problem??????

Maybe you are not cut out to be a trader, maybe it's because you are slow or just to lazy to go and study the charts......or you think you are to smart for that crapola....it doesn't matter what I think, now does it, you are the one that just sits there dreamin.....

You should have been in the chat room this week as we have been smokin....but you sit there searching the internet....searching for an answer and just keep dreamin....

Exercise for Older Adults

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.

Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level!!)

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

So you are studying your charts.........

You decided to come to the workshop and see if there was any nuggets you could use to help "you" make money. Then you logged into the chat room this past week just to see if you could understand the mountain of stuff that was presented. One thing, you were told to do, that could benefit your trading is to print out your charts and after dinner go back and study them....mostly the losing trades.

Why study the winners, you already know how to find them....what you want to get rid of are those losers...well, at least half of them...RIGHT? In reference to finding a tradable trend and YES, I know if the last six bars have been above zero the trend is up and if they have been below zero for the last 6 bars the trend is down. Well, if using the 14/6 CCI to govern this idea you are short changing yourself. The reason is simple, go up a chart for 10-19-07, this past FRIDAY. Even a blind squirrel from Alabama can tell that the trend was only one way....SOUTH...PERIOD!!!!!

Heck the Woodies CCI even had a Zero Line Reject setup for a long at 12:32 which meant you were someone else order flow, now nothing wrong with being someones order flow but I have to believe most people don't want to make at a habit. What you need to find is something that will give you a tradable trend that is independent of the laggin indicator you are using to find an entry with. Now those in the chat room were shorting all day and we even had the price and the time at 4:13 to cover and we knew this back around 2;00pm give or that a nana second, and only had to have the stones to hold it until then......MOST DID.

Did you buy the market on FRIDAY and got slammed......then you need to clear your head a little and take a serous look at the all the noise on the charts and consider finding the junk-b-gone feature or it might be called the delete key.

See how simple this is Woodies CCI Club......so belly up.

The Woodies CCI Club likes to boost about how much "they" have given to Make-a-Wish over the years, shoot back in the Spring of 2004, Ken Woods would talk about over $100,000.00 was given from the Woodies CCI Club. Well that was true to some degree, I know I gave over $40,000.00 and even flew out to Scottsdale, AZ and had Jennifer Rossi come over the "Country Club" for apple dumpling and presented her a check. This check was from a workshop that I did for Fibonacci Trader in Orlando. it was my cut from the workshop, and a big deal was made about it at the time. Well that was 2004 and now it's 2007 and the TAL just kept coming from the Woodies CCI Club, one after another, heck, if you wanted to do all the work, take on all the responsible, set the whole thing up.....well Woodie would fly in, do his dance around the room asking if this was helping anyone....(other then him). Don't believe me, just ask folks like DrBob!!!!

He took the money and that was the end of that......Traders helping Traders....."YOU" helping Ken Woods and TonyUK.....Traders helping Traders. People have fallen for these lines until their account falls below the zero line and they just move on to the next guru.

He had it all, but deserved nothing......Just think about it this way, if someone can really trade and it wouldn't matter what market, after 6 years or whatever he claims now, you would have to think they would have more money buried in the backyard that he would have to move into a bigger house instead of just a hot tub sitting out there.....

I guess if you can't really trade....you have to do something besides waiting for those SSI payment each month. Either you can trade or you can't and if you can't then marketing dreams is the next move.

You can click on the picture, to view the article, to read about walking the walk,
instead of using the DrBob-b-gone, the Gio-b-gone, the TW-b-gone, the Cheese-b-gone, the text-b-gone and of course the famous Dax-b-gone, the list is almost endless, when someone tries to stand up or do something that hasn't been approved by the Duke of Wood himself. Truth be told, he is only the mouth piece....right TONY?????

I am so proud of the people who came, and gave with their open heart, think about how much can be done, building a network of friends, sharing ideas, enjoying each others friendship.....you will never have that in the Woodies CCI Club...never and that is the sad part of this whole entire 6 years soap opera.

Take care Ken Woods and Tony Holden some day you will be standing in front of your maker and will have to explain yourself and your actions......and he has the ultimate-b-gone tab.

Woodies CCI Club and the latest twist........

So I get email all the time about this and that from people that I never met or most likely never will, you can click on the email to read it if you like. But the bottom line is pretty simple in my opinion.

My response is easy, do they have actual broker statements, certified to be true and factual and that real money was traded in the account or was it a sim account like Steve Matrix tried to pull off a while back....see archives.

What is the drawdown if they do have actual statements, it important to understand that you might have to suffer thru a period of drawdowns until the system turns around and becomes a winner again. Now, it doesn't matter what BSski they say, ALL SYSTEMS HAVE DRAWDOWNS, just ask around. If the drawdown is 25% then the question is can you live with that or what if it's 30%. If you can't then the answer is clear....DON'T!!!

Has the system been submitted to Future Truth for review? You can click on the title to go to their website to check and see if the system has been tested by them, who provide an independent review. If it hasn't then the question would be WHY NOT??

Then the last question is who controls the funds, is it setup for a discretionary trader to just trade the funds or are the funds thrown into a pot and stirred around, who trades it and what is their background and so on.

As far as Make-a-Wish, I can only say that Ken Wood and TonyUK have put on at least 3 maybe 4 of these TAL a year since 2003. They took in 30k at the door in Chicago, I was there. They had over 120 people in CA later in the year but they had to pay for the room, internet and so on there, I was there also....but still we are talking about 40k at least. You can call The Make-a-Wish Foudation at (800) 722-WISH (9474) and ask them just how much money the Woodies CCI Club donated.....now not what people gave in honor of Ken Woods, but what the Club gave in their own name. Ken Woods has made claims in the past of over 100k given and that he is a personal friend of the President of the Foundation since it's located in Phoenix just down the road from where he lives.

PFG made two donations from the first two TAL after they worked a deal out with Woodie to promote their brokeage firm, but that seems to have dried up. The deal is live and well as they will be the official AutoTrader firm.....hummmmm.

But in the end, you have to believe in it...but only after doing some homework, but this should be about any investment and it doesn't matter what it would be...real estate, new business startup, antiques, coins, stamps, wine or stocks and futures or a CD down at the local bank......RIGHT?????.

So people see things as they are and ask why???

You can read the article by clicking on the picture....:)

Well, right after the workshop we started putting the finishing touches on the Oktoberfest event for the United Way. We had 7 kegs of Oktoberfest beer and 25 cases of German beer from Beck all the way up to Warsteiner and we even manage to have some Heineken chilling.

Walnut cakes and Shoo-fly pie....TastyKakes and pretzels flown in from Philly....Lebanon Bologna and Johnson Brats...Sausages grilled to perfection...Pork and kraut with mashed potatoes were all spread out over the buffet table...yep we were all set.

The German band all decked out their outfits...and girls decked out to keep the place tidy....and of course, the girls had their Heidi outfits on....yep we were all set.

Tables and chairs with blue table cloths, center pieces done in steins, beer banners and posters were all hung around, 48 Bavarian Flags and a couple of German flags were also hung around the property...yep we were all set.

The United Way volunteers were at the front door to check people in, so no one got a free ride. The auction items were placed just after you walked in so you could view them before moving downstairs......yep we were all set, it was 5:30pm.

Now it hadn't rained here for several weeks, it seems like months but it was really only a couple of weeks. The amount of rain for the year...well, we are down 13 and a half inches. But there they were.....rain clouds, dark, thick, rain clouds. It started to rain around 5:30 and just enough to make everything wet, soak the table cloths and so on. During this time, a lot of people that had paid to come just didn't.......

But those who came had a blast, the band played until 10:00pm. The cake and pies disappeared along with the brats. They danced to the chicken dance and sang songs that I thought they didn't even know. The stein auction was interesting, as we had put $5,000.00 cash in one stein along with prizes in all the other ones. Some had great prizes and some didn't but since you didn't know which one had what, well it was interesting.

So as the evening came to a close, yes we could have had more people come I guess, but the ones that did went away full of food and good beer.

During the last 6 days, with having the workshop and then the Oktoberfest we raised the following:

1. Virgil came to workshop and won the shark race...a cool $10,000.00 and gave it all back to the United Way "IF" they would do just one thing.....hang a Gator flag over my third floor deck during the Oktoberfest....well we had a lot of fun with that.

2. The attendees at the workshop wrote a total of $42,000.00 to three local charities that I support locally. The Mountain Hope Good Shepard Clinic, The Boys and Girls Club of the Smoky (Gatlinburg building fund) and the Humane Society of Seiver County.

3. The United Way had it's second biggest event ever this year during Oktoberfest and raised $32,000.00 which support all kinds of agencies locally.

4. Chip, who won the beer stein auction and the cool $5,000.00 also gave it back to the United Way, now how cool is that and you wonder why I do what I do, it's because of the great people I know.

That comes to a cool $89,000.00 but I have read some comments about some that came to the workshop might have be a little cheap. The idea, agreement or even covenant was that I would show you exactly how I trade, define the trend, triggers and how i would develop a trading plan by doing research and so on and in exchange the attendees would open their hearts and stroke a check to my favorite local charities.

Now some could stroke a check for $10,000 and not blink an eye, while others just don't have anything to spare. But the amount was between you and God, not between you and me. People came to the workshop so they could find answers that would allow them to move to the next level. In the bible, there is a story about how people would go to the temple and as they entered they would drop their offering into this steel chamber, of course, it made noise as the coins rolled around. An old women came in and placed what would be about 2 cents in todays money and seeing this Jesus came over and laid his hand on her and blessed her. The reason was that she had given all she had with a pure heart while the others gave to make a show.

So it's doesn't matter to me, what was given, I don't even what to know who gave what because again it's not between you and me. Those who came and believe that they can go home and use it effective are blinded by greed. We have had a chat room up and running since the workhshop for those who attended. Of the 74 people that came only about 52 have been in the chat room...WHY???

Well, I have to believe that they are busy comparing their stuff to my stuff and working on how to get it to take them to the next level, do you think that will work? I personally doubt it. Over the past several days, we have been fine tuning the things I talked about for three days, well except for that long I took off the low at 3:32 today without warning, but after 5 days of playing by the rules....I just had to take it when the ticks spike down on a double bottom......sorry

The people who came and gave their hard earned money (no matter what amount) to the charities I can only say .....A heart felt, THANK YOU SO MUCH, ya'll are the best.

The charities all say a GREAT BIG THANK YOU!!!

You can click on the letter to make it larger so you can read it.....:)

The deal was....I would put on a workshop and instead of charging a fee, I said, that all you needed to do was open your heart and write a check for what you believed would be right and just.

Here is the letter from Jane at the Humane Society, you remember Jane...she was in the presentation at the Woodies CCI Club World Universal Conference held in Las Vegas back in December of 2003. Wow, that was a long time ago...wasn't it????

Well, as time has moved forwarded we discovered that Traders helping Traders, Lighting someone elses candle doesn't take away from yours, there will be better trades down the road and of course....we donate all the money left over from the TAL to MAW has only been a smoke and mirror, dog and pony show. Jane was there as was the fellow from the Eagle Foundation, The Bear Center, Dolly Foundation and hell I even had one of the largest donors from Make-A-Wish come to Vegas and speak about her grandson and what MAW meant to her and her family.

What a waste, to have the right message only to have the wrong messenger, those who have come and seen, in person, understand completely when they visited my office and saw the mantle over the fireplace. It's of the market, of course, with the NYSE cut out in wood, a bear, a bull and chart patterns running on both sides of the NYSE. On the bottom of the mantle there a some traders waving their hands and ticker tape laying across the front of the NYSE building. In that tape is a message and it reads.......KM 5 7/8....HD 25.......BMI 34 1/2.....JNJ 53 and so on, but the first one is the important one.......it reads CCI 666.

Why you might ask, because that is the "Mark of the Beast", and the "False Prophet" among other things I could think of.....but it tells a lot. The Woodies CCI Club and Ken Wood could have been the best thing since peanut butter and chocolate found their way inside a candy wrapper, but instead he and Tony choice the dark side of things. Having Tony fly over the pond was never about just hooking up the internet....it was about talking privately "after hours", it was about being face to face and talking business at the expense of the attendees and "the kids". We all know now, that "The Kids" were never in the mix, but it does sound good...doesn't it.

Back in 2003, I got a lot of shit from the Woodies CCI Club and all thru 2004, but if you look back, I am exactly what I was back then....nothing more...and nothing less. Just a person who wanted to help others, share ideas and network with traders, I didn't sell out for a few pieces of gold, and once I figured the truth out....I WAS OUT OF THERE!!!!!!

I enjoy doing a workshop for a number of reasons, but one of them isn't to make a living, to sell books, t-shirts, coffee mugs, trade-a-longs, advanced trade-a-longs, provide a platform so other can sell their wares, click thrus, promote data providers and of course a "preferred" broker.

The people that attended the educational workshop and trade-a-long came with an open mind, watched and got some ideas to study at home after the market close, they met other traders and shared war stories, met new people so they could develop new friends, and they watched as I traded live with all the problems of trading live in front of a group of people, in unfamiliar surrounding, people asking questions, people talking and walking around, the news media was there for the upcoming Oktoberfest and phone calls. They came, they saw and there wasn't any smoke and mirrors.

I have to thank everyone that wrote a check to my favorite local charities, you showed me the value of good friends and for that I am so blessed...THANK YOU ALL!!!

The workshop in the mountains.....what does a red bar mean???

Well, it was Saturday morning when we started talking about trading, the conference tables were to be 18 inches wide, but ended up being 30 inches. Now 12 inches doesn't mean much unless you need 6 rows and end up with only 5 rows of tables. So needless to say we were close during this three day adventure into the wacky world of trading. I had made a wall 12 feet high and 24 feet wide out of drywall so I could walk back and forth without having to fall over the projection screens like in Denver 2005. Which worked out nicely since the group had moved about 3 feet closer then I was planning.

During a break, everyone got the chance to tour the house, but the first thing you had to do was hike up the stairs......

After the workshop on Saturday, we had a cookout for the gang, ribs and beans with cornbread was the order of the day. A couple friends of mine came over and played some good ole mountain music. The bar was open upstairs and several enjoyed draft beer and some good ole German beer that was for Oktoberfest....:) The party lasted until about 9pm.

The Amercian Eagle Foundation brought over some of it's bird that they are taking care of. These birds at one time had been injured and couldn't take care of themselves. A balled eagle was also here and will have pics of him as soon as I can find the transfer cable...:)

Well, as you can see I was on the phone while we were trading on Monday...the reason was that coach Fulmer called and asked if I would like to join him for breakfast on Saturday before the game. The reason was, the University wanted to give me a pin in honor of me be coming a member of the Victor Society. Of course, I said.....YEA BABY.

The workshop went as planned except for an opening marcos BSski from TS, but we got it straighten out and traded the rest of the day...simple as that.

Live or Die by your data feed.....

During the workshop we talked about a trend day and LBR ideas....about if the market opened at one end of the range (20%) and closed at the other end of the range that day and then if the $tick closed above 400...that there was an 87% chance the market would trade higher the next day....yada yada yada.

I have had a couple comments about the ticks not closing above 400 but at a lower number....which brings up another problem. I have posted the chart of the $ticks on Monday with a circle at the close and if you look over to the left you can see the value. The problem is, your data provider, your internet connection, your computer and all the crap you have loaded up on it.....like Hotcomm or other chat rooms and so on. I can only trade with what I see on my charts at the time I see them and can't run around the neighborhood seeing if everyone else has the same data.

The comment said, that after checking back.....and I went....WOW, someone is actually going and doing a back study of an idea to see if there is something there for them to use.......I mean WOW. That was one of the theme of the workshop and people are already wearing out pencils drawing lines and making notes. This is GREAT.
Keep up the good work, because you are just this close to your own secret sauce....:)

EMAIL IS OUT THE DOOR

If you attended the workshop last weekend, an email has been sent with the info I promised. If you have not gotten it yet.....it's because Mittens is working for airfare back to AZ and fell asleep.....just send me an email and I'll get one of the goldens after her....:)

Also, if there is a problem, just email me and I'll get to it as soon as I can...my first job is taking care of the little women....my second job is trading...my third job is walking, petting and feeding the goldens....my fourth job is keep up with the kids.....and my fifth job is running the vac after the goldens....hair, hair, everywhere there is hair...my sixth job is getting ready for Halloween.......so you are on the list, just not a the top.......OK.

Kids gettin into it........

when I mentioned I was going to buy them dresses to wear for the Oktoberfest, of course, I heard a lot of complaining.......but I think they look pretty hot. The one of the left said, "WEll, Hiedi Ho." The one on the right said, "Yea, you are Hiedi and must be the Ho." Needless to say we have gone a lot of mileage out of that comment.......ROTFL!!!!

Try and get a 19 year old male into an outfit was easy, he asked what do you think it going to take for me to wear that outfit? I replied, "A new set of tires." He gets them on Monday......ROTFL.

But we had a blast at the party and I'll post a very very interesting picture once I get some sleep.....and how did you like that rally today, you should have gotten a few easy points.........hehe

the name of the song playing is the clarinet polka, by the way.

OK, now......I luve you guys too.......BUT!!!

Ok, now for those who were here last weekend, you know that I would do anything I can to help you become who you would like........BUT.

We have found stuff all over the house, little bags of this and that and don't know where it came from....:)
The florist wore himself out on Tuesday and Wednesday driving up to the house with the most beautiful flowers arrangements for my wife......:)

UPS has been bring boxes of chocolate and other goodies all week.

We even found a Christmas tree ornament in our mail box....wonder who that was....:)

We are blown away with all the things that you folks have done and emailed me, and the weekend was great. Monday was a little !_)!*$^!)*$^_!$^@^!*!#%~&(%#)%, but by 11:00am we had gotten our feet on the ground.....

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING...........from the bottom of all our hearts, we love you also.

So we talked about SYMMETRY......

We are now within 18 hours of the start of OKTOBERFEST and everything is ready, well everything on today's list is done, tomorrow it's go get the kegs and hook them up and a zillion other things. Now during my research of beer is kegs, years of it actually, there are two kinds of keg taps....American and European. So it's important to have the right tap, but it's more important to understand where the beer is brewed in the first place.

As I look over my list of a hundred things for tomorrow, the Philly pretzels are somewhere in a FedEx terminal looking for a plane ride along with TastyKakes. Now if there are some amateurs out there who might not understand dessert...... then just go to

http://snackcakesonline.com/catalog/index.php

and check it out.......there are the best.

40 family pack bags of those cooked in lard thickly sliced potato chips salted just right to make ya want to drink at least 3 liters per bag...Lebanon Bologna and Extra Sharp Longhorn cheese.......and let's not forget the shoo-fly pie....

Brats and sausage on a toasted bun with mashed potatoes and kruat........and good ole German potato salad.....well good grief.

Oh yea, and the beer...lots and lots of beer, which is now in the cooler and chilling down..
It should be an event....picture on Friday.....:)

The biggest party of the year........

Well, less then 24 hour before over 800 people will be heading for the mountain...as the Oktoberfest starts.......with German music, food and lots and lots of "drink". This event has raised over $60,000.00 just in ticket sales and people who couldn't come this year have spent in their donation to the United Way. This event will feature over 7 different German beers that where brewed for Oktoberfest and 12 kegs of "other" brands.....:)

A women and men beer stein holding contest, the chicken dance are all on tap for tomorrow night, but I think the highlight will be the beer stein auction. With orginal old painting from Vern Heppenstill, Jim Gary and Robert Tino, 7 day vacation in Aruba, a cruise, and a $5,000 cash will be placed in different steins and auctioned off. Now, no one will know which stein contains what prize....when you are the winning bidder, you come up front, pick out a stein and put your name on it.
Once all the steins are gone, then there will be a 5 minute horse trading period if someone wants to switch theirs, should be interesting.

Within 3 hours of the workshop ending, the projection screens came down and things went into high gear...trying to finish everything today......OK tomorrow morning.

We are waiting for a final count on the donations made from the workshop and should have that tommorrow. Also will be sending out the indicators to attendees this weekend if you emailed me....:)

For those at the workshop....doesn't this just bite?

No need to make a mile long comment, I'll just go and bang my head against some drywall.......ROTFL!!!!

A 20 dollar investment turns into a wind fall....but that is only half the story

GATLINBURG - A man visiting Sevier County for a conference won the $10,000 grand prize in the Great Gatlinburg Shark Race by a rubber nose - or tail.

More than 4,700 rubber sharks bounced and bobbled their way downstream to Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, where one of Virgil Kapp's two sharks edged the second place competition in a photo finish.

Kapp was in town for a day trading conference hosted by Dennis Bolze, who will be hosting another event for United Way this week with an Oktoberfest celebration this Thursday. He bought his sharks Saturday from volunteers who came by the Pancake Pantry.

"It's been quite a week," he said. With the water still low from this year's drought, officials decided to put the sharks in the water closer to the finish line.
"I think it makes it more exciting if everyone sees the sharks going in the water," said Jon Elder, events coordinator for the city.

The sharks made a colorful wave as they bunched up together starting out, but a few pulled away from the pack as they made it into faster water.
A crowd gathered to see if their shark won started to cheer as two came to the finish line close enough to make it an exciting finish.

With the sharks selling for $10 a piece, along with donation jars set up in different places, United Way officials were still tallying the proceeds Saturday afternoon. "We're still doing the totals, but we feel like we raised a lot of money today," Chairman Steve Layman said.

Virgil told us after we received the check that he and his wife have decided to give the money back to the United Way.....which speaks volumes about what kind of a person he is......what have you done lately and you wonder why you don't receive any blessing......hummmmmm. Virgil, I personally don't know what to say, I only hope that God continues to bless you and all of your family each and every day.

Buy on Blue and Sell on Red from eASCTrend Indicator

Well, just how much better can this get, BUY ON BLUE and then just trail that good ole stop using the blue line.....I'm RICH Charlie Brown....I'm RICH.

Looking closely at those blue lines, I see 4 spots where the price hit or went below those magic bean lines.....so what am I to think? Maybe those ghost traders over in the Woodies CCI Club and tell me how that works.......other then just being magic, you know....

Hangover from a Trend day....

Starting on Friday before the workshop even started, I was talking about Monday being two things, a trend day and a trend day with an upwards bias. I learned from LBR about defining a trend day, opening at the lower end (long) of the range and closing at the upper end of that days range. In fact, you even have to have had the open to be within the 20% of the daily range and the close to be within the top 20%.

Well, first of all, my ideas of it being a trend day and with an upwards bias seemed to have nailed the market......around 3:00pm I started talking and talking about the $TICK. If the $TICK closed above 400 when NYSE closed the odds are that we would trade higher the next day eithty-seven percent of the time. Well, when the big board closed the tick reading was 440. This meant, a trader could hold overnight...maybe not a full position, but you could hold something....according to your trading plan and money management rules.....

Well, this morning, sure enough the market even gapped up and continued to move higher during the first hour and even moved to a new high later in the day.....so, IF you see a trend day and the tick close above 400 (in this case) and you don't hold overnight....you do have a heads up for tomorrow.....LOOK TO BE A BUYER....

Check it out, because a trend occures about twice a month.....

WOW, what a day

The three day Educational Workshop in the mountains of Tennessee ended today....most know I can easily talk for three straight days about trading to say the least. As night falls over the mountains, with a bum left knee, a stiff back, one sore left eye and a shot voice.......all I can say is HOLY CRAP BATMAN.

I will be writing about it, from my view point over the next week or so....after I got some sleep and spend a lot of time in the hot tub. But there were some amazing moment over the past three days and the great people who traveled here to let me share some ideas about trading with them.

Now is not the time to talk about some things, but the way everyone treated my wife who at the present time is having chemo treatment for breast cancer was just overwhelming to all of us....and we appreciate the effort everyone made....help cleaning up after it was over to helping setup the lunch buffet while my daughter took her for her treatment today.....

I hope out of all this, comes a new approach for us who trade in this lonely world of chasing our dreams will surface. With no hidden agenda, just buds getting together to share stories, ideas and become a trading community.....won't that be great??????