My gift wish list for Christmas 2007:

Dear Santa,
My gift wish list for Christmas 2007:
Dick Cheney - a ‘partridge in a pear tree’

Condoleezza Rice - ‘two turtle doves’

Nicolas Sarkozy - ‘three French hens’

Bill Clinton - ‘four calling birds’

Boston Red Sox - ‘five gold rings’

Hillary Clinton - ‘six geese a-laying’

Ted Kennedy - ‘seven swans a-swimming’

P.Diddy - ‘eight maids a-milking’

Helio Castroneves - ‘nine ladies dancing’

Senator Larry Craig - ‘ten lords a-leaping’

Miami Dolphins - ‘eleven pipers piping’

Rosie O’Donnell - ‘twelve drumsticks drumming’

George W. Bush - a rainbow-colored plastic slinky

Kim Jong-il - Chia Pet

The UN - a gig at the Laugh Factory

Al Gore - a carbon footprint strong enough to hold me

Joey Buttafucco & Amy Fisher - Bada Bing, Bada Boom

Dog the Bounty Hunter - an “Al Sharpton Action Figure”

Paris Hilton - “Piece on Earth”

Loonie - buy the United States, make it the 11th province of Canada and call it U.S.EH!

Nancy Pelosi - a bikini wax

Ron Paul - a reunion with my half brother/half sister RuPaul

Vladimir Putin - mouseketeer ears hat (adult)

Harry Reid - a bikini wax

La Macarena - Al Gore for president 2008

Dennis Kucinich - steroids

Barney Frank - a bikini

Norman Mailer - oops, too late

Rudy Giuliani - “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the DVD

Prancer & Donner - same sex-marriage

Prince Charles - to be King for once

Freddie Mercury - to be a Queen again

Australia – a Nutter like the Mayor of Philadelphia

Pope Benedict XVI – “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin

Mike Huckabee – the biography of Gomer Pyle, “Shazam, Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!”

Hugo Chavez - the Clapper, ‘clap on, clap off’

Conrad Black - Soap- on- a- Rope, made in Canada

John McCain - a %@#* anger management book

Britney Spears - a double-wide trailer

Benazir Bhutto - get General Pervez Musharraf a job at Apu’s Quickie Mart

Heather Mills - a grande ratte

Sudan – a Three Stooges poster of Larry, Curly and Mo – er, Maurice

John Edwards - a picture of John Edwards

Rudolph - rhinoplasty surgery

Writers Guild of America

Fred Thompson - Get Smart: The Complete Collection

Paul McCartney – a woman, who eats meat, drinks milk, wears fur and can stand on her own two feet

New York Times – a Perry Como sweater

Don Imus - a supply of adult size nappies from England

Michael Vick - a ‘hot’ dog

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - a name, people can pronounce, like Darth Vader

Barack Obama - Politics for Dummies, 2nd Edition

Andrea Mitchell – “irrational exuberance”, from Alan

Viagra - mistletoe and office parties

O.J. Simpson - NRA membership

Mitt Romney - ringtone, “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!”…

ACLU - nativity scenes, in court

Redwood - a hug from Al Gore

The US Military – Aretha Franklin’s “…R-E-S-P-E-C-T…find out what it means to me”

Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism - Peace on Earth
JAB

WOW what a day in the chat room..........

SO there we were it was 12:03 and lunch time had arrived, I had been trading a 6 lot up until then as the market just bounced around with no direction. I was in the hope mode, praying to caught the next big swing and there was no follow thru. Since I am a trend trader and this was a swingers only morning it wasn't lookin pretty as I sat there eating my sub......not at all. Eighty people in the chat room had seen the worse trading in a month. I told them that these narrow range eat you alive but out of that comes wide range and I only had to stay out of trouble until then.
Then the sixth trade of the day trigger and I shorted, only to get clipped out yet again for a small loss but by this time, I was in no mood for any losses much less even a small one......then is triggered again just as I was getting stopped....and I thought..........................THE HELL WITH IT and went into hammer down mode, I had just had a total of 6 losses and I knew from my research it was time to get'r back so I load up the boat and set sail....

I use ninja charting and order entry to manage the trade and once I got to BE, my world started to turn around, the light of day can thru the windows, but until then I could feel my heart pounding in my throat......I had my target the world was good again......

IT was real good, as the next 4 trades were just nailing the entries and exits....tick extremes, stoch pullback and the secret sauce, shoot we even had a crown pattern setup that was worth a few bucks.......The traders in the room must still be talking about the live show that went on today...I have to believe.

OK some ground rules there SPOT!!!!

PET RULES

To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.

Dear Dogs and Cats,
The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack.
Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years --canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!

To pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted the following message on our front door:

To All Non-Pet Owners Who Visit & Like to Complain About Our Pets

1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (That's why they call it 'fur'niture.)
3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

Remember: Dogs and cats are better than kids because they:
1. Eat less
2. Don't ask for money all the time
3. Are easier to train
4. Usually come when called
5. Never drive your car
6. Don't hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don't smoke or drink
8. Don't worry about having to buy the latest fashions
9. Don't wear your clothes
10. Don 't need a gazillion dollars for college, and
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell their children

WoodiesCCIClub.com had another problem.......

There he was, he had worked so hard on everything...you know moderating, answering the endless questions from newbies, doing those recorded session of how to play options, emails, TAL and whatever was needed, mPlay was there.....BUT!!!!

The day came when he had to go, Woodie had had enough of mplay, the reason isn't important when "HE" is in one of "HIS" moods, the decision had been made and TonyUK had approved......and then it came......BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Like so many before him, like DAX, remember DAX.....and the famous commodities trader that had taken just 10k and turned it into over 100k in a few weeks, well before the truth came out, up until that point however it was praise, praise and here is your own (praise) chat room DAX. Then it happened, DAX-b-gone.

When trader talked about it, then came the famous....text-b-gone, which was another of hotcomm feature we all enjoyed. Out of the blue, zap....and the text had been adjusted.

Then came the Gio-b-gone tab....and the JeanYus-b-gone tab, the Teddy-b-gone tab, Rover-b-gone, Cathy_FL-b-gone, Olmikey-b-gone, CluelessTrader-b-gone, TraderDave, RMK, Kate, Bonnie, Won, Shanti, DesertDude, R7, DrBob, Eman_CA, JoAnne, TraderDoug, BobCathy1, Jayscat, Fitzy, Blinky, Kart, Sgt. J, MoneyPenny, Dloomis, Kiwi, KenP, KenC, Hoot, Heart, Samira, TL3, Busa, tHEfED, Verus, Dharma, Kiwi, Croc, Iceman, LcL+3, Rainman, Biker_NJ, BrB, codehead, Hammer, BigCheese, Maggie, Antiicc, TW_WI, Jeanann, Ave3, Lobsterboy, WB_NJ, Spike, MarkB, Frank P., Egor, Sammy, Rocco, Janie,
Esmeralda, Donna, Nick, Vinnie, Fat Louie, Woodman, RG2JH, DrSatish, Raven358, Steve4223, Taku, DebbieDeb, Folls, Angela, David_UK, HC-ED, Soren, Edgeseeker, Fritzer, KenC, Ricky, Fitzy, Bobby, Kiwi, Fill_or_Kill, Jeff, Sally_CA, MoJo, Hanksterr, Boatguy, Viper_CA, Shane_CA and yada yada yada yada......

It appears that the website has been adjusted for the latest "OUT OF HERE-b-goner" and there is no mention of mPlay....no more no more.... All those years of helping people to get a grip on trading ....GONE. All those years of answering emails and endless quesitions from the newbies...GONE. The recording session of option trading after hours...GONE. Moderatoring to help others....GONE.

Who then is the real loser here, well it's not mPlay for sure....he is still the same person as he was last week. The real loser is the WoodiesCCIClub as so many many times in the past someone has been deleted. The good news is that mPlay has setup his own chatroom over in TradingRooms.com for those who enjoy his two cents on things.....

Thanks there Ken Wood for letting anyone get away from the cult. NO KOOLADE for mPlay anymore....:)

Minnesota Bridge collapse so a man can understand it

For Engineers:OBJECTIVES:
To identify the S.H.M. ( Simple Harmonic Motion) as a periodic, oscillatory and vibratory movement.
To visualize a body which describes an S.H.M.
To define and identify the principle physical magnitudes which intervene in an S.H.M.
To visualize and interact with the graphs which represent these magnitudes.
To visualize the relation which exists between the S.H.M. and the Uniform Circular Movement.
*Below is a simple laboratory device used to exhibit the mechanical parameters.

However, for those of us who aren't engineers, but just beer drinkin, rib chewing, chicken eatin rednecks, if you click on the picture....WELL you'll understand the principle also.....

We have come a long way from those paltalk days!!

When Mr. Lambert first wrote about the Commondity Channel Index indicator, it had two pages with mostly charts.

Then Barbara Star wrote an article on a different way to think about the indicator back in February of 1992, that is over 15 years ago now. The recent journey of the indicator has now lead us to this point........

There are 22 different things to think about now....no more batman setups just these:

An alert message bar shows at the top of the chart when the CCI line is above 200 or below -200.

Woodie's pivots for Pivot Point PP, R3, R2, R1, S1, S2, and S3.

Pivot levels show graphically on the chart with price and label.

34 EMA study

25 LSMA study

Candlesticks, Ensign Rockets, Ensign Zebras, or Ensign Flutes. Chart example shows Ensign Rockets.

Big yellow block markers showing past CCI extremes above 200 and below -200.

Small yellow pegs are shown for the first occurrence of a higher high at the top of the sub-window, and for the first occurrence of a lower low at the bottom of the sub-window.

Day Session High value and the Net to the current price from this High.

+200 grid line colored green when Close is above the 34 EMA and colored red when below.

Net distances to the nearest Woodie pivots above and below the current price.

Number of seconds remaining in this bar's time period. Information is shown in yellow when less than 20 seconds left.

High of prior bar and current bar. Current price. Low of prior bar and current bar.
The High values will show in green when the current bar has a higher high.
The Low values will show in red when the current bar has a lower low.

Number of ticks in the current bar.

Angle in degrees of the slope of the LSMA study line.
Angle in degrees of the slope of the EMA study line.
Total of the 2 angle values. Trend labels of Flat, Normal and Trending based on the Total value.

Day Session Low value and the Net to the current price from this Low.

-200 grid line colored red when the angle sum is Flat, yellow when Normal, and Green when Trending.

-100 and +100 grid lines colored with the CZI study which is a nearness test of price to the EMA.

0 grid line colored green when Close is above the 25 LSMA and colored red when below.

Primary 14 period CCI study indicator. Plotted as a thick black line.

Fast 6 period CCI leading indicator. Plotted as a thin yellow line.

Histogram colored gray after crossing the zero line, yellow on the 5th bar, and red or blue when trending.

Make ya wonder what the next 15 years will bring........doesn't it? I hear that the WoodiesCCIClub is now talking about how they invented range bar and are the only people that understand how to use them correctly.....WOW.

It's that time of the year.....

Looking into the magic "8" ball

Well back on October 11th when the market stalled with an outside bar, the formation, at the time would be considered a Haggerty 123. So it dropped, then it rallied, but where could it stall again was the burning question????

A fibonacci level at .618 which is the first circle, the market held that area for 4 long range bound days before giving it up. The next question on everyones mind was where can it go from there. Well of course, the first place is a .786 of the rally swing and then a double bottom, but for us fib guys....we were all looking for a 1.272 extension and praying for it to get down there to even a 1.618.

Then the market rallied again, which makes us wonder what is next.....RIGHT????

Well it quite simple from my point of view, back down to 13,000 which is .618 of this latest rally swing and by the 11th and then one hell of a rally.....just my opinion, ROTFL..........

What's yours???

What is VALUE?????

To realize the value of ten years:
Ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

Is there a Judias among us now?????

We all know the story about the man that hung out and broke bread with Jesus and all the time was smiling, laughing while enjoying the fruits of his work. Not much is mentioned about him before that night and only a few lines after the betrayal, but the name Judias has come to symbolize, in a lot of ways, a person who betrays while pretending to be a friend.

I personally believe that the phrase WWJD actually means "What Would Judias Do" more then the common view of "What Would Jesus DO" because without a Judias among us then how would the rest of the story of salvation EVER be fulfilled? Sometimes, when you think that a person is blocking your way, they are actually empowering you to do something else in your journey thru life.

If I didn't get that promotion, WELL, then the reason is that there is something better waiting for me. If I didn't win that item on eBay, WELL, then the reason must be there will something even better next time. If I missed that plane, WELL then the reason is that I need to be at the airport long enough for someone to come into my life for a brief time to talk about something that is either important to me or to "them".

There are hundreds of stories I could about tell about those little things, a note on a windshield, a chance meeting of an old friend, a letter delivered to the wrong address, some one who just started to talk to me over lunch and so on that has defined who I really am, what I do and why.......

Back a few years ago, someone spent a lot of time spreading false rumors about me and my family. Trying to tell people that the bridge that we build to access the garage was actually a bridge being built by the city to enter a park. About how my wife was rich and that I was just living off her money. The attacks were at times interesting if not annoying. Those who knew me, knew it wasn't true because what my Judias didn't know that most of them visited this area on a regular basis and knew the entire family and all the history, most had talked to locals while in town and so on.

He blasted me while in WoodieCCIClub.com for either not showing up to call out trades like the day that the Dolly Foundation gave it's one millionth book away to kids from low income areas of the country or for a number of other issues he had. I had to leave the WoodiesCCIClub once I figured out that it was cash at the door during those early TAL and no donations to Make-a-Wish back by Ken Wood in 2004. At the time it was just Ken Wood and not the WoodiesCCIClub, LLC.

He came into my first chat room called TradersParadise in Hotcomm. But I had to leave that software because of the voliation of privacy issues of having others come in behind the password protection and were able to view "private things". My stock and options transactions, talking to a programmer about system trading and so on.

He started a blog and blasted everyone that had anything to do with the WoodiesCCIClub and kept making up stuff about everyone from Gio, JeanYus, DrBob, JW, and or course MYSELF.

So for the past 4 years we have been tracking visits to this blog, viewing the logins from the Hotcomm chat room and now of course, "HE" has shown up in the chat room in TradingRooms.com. With todays technology all entries are time stamped, IP address and in some cases even a chocolate chip "cookie" can be tracked. Patterns develop that stand out, word patterns that one normally use and so on. During the past 6 weeks, in the Limitdown chatroom in TradingRooms.com "HE" didn't show up at first, but every entry into this blog must have caused him pain as I posted the newspaper articles about the educational workshop at the end of September, 89K was raised for 3 local charties. It must have caused him even more pain to learn that I wasn't selling anything either, it was all open code, NO SECRET SAUCE you had to buy...nothing....zip.......:)

If it wasn't for "HIM" I don't believe I would have started the chat room over in Hotcomm, nor had the educational trading workshop a few weeks back or would have done the current loose chat room we have now. But, trust me, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE NOW....so there is no need for you to play games anymore unless you want to really play games........

Married to a wonderful middle aged women and live a 4 bedroom house that you paid just over 120k for. Now the really funny part is that you have 4 sex offenders living within 4 blocks of your house....check it out dude. The number 4 comes up alot .....if you know what I mean.

The bottom line is "J"udias, the fun and games that you have enjoyed at my expense are OVER, unless you are interested in having everyone know who you are, there is a time and place for everthing, but your time is has expire.......I have posted a few things, think of what else we know about you....do you really want to go down that road????

I don't think your buddies do, better email them and ask.......even your email address has the "Mark of the Beast" in it.....now doesn't it???

And where were you on August 2, 2005?

Who would have thought George would say this.....

I truly believe that George Carlin is an extremely insightful man and has always tried to open people's minds with his comedy, his wife had recently died when he sat down and wrote this.

A Message by George Carlin: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology canbring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones,because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most o f all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares
George Carlin

A reason to give thanks.........if you need one.

As we sit around our warm living room, watching football and enjoying our family time, shopping and eating (like most of us need any more food) taking naps and looking for boxes of Christmas decorations this weekend......it is also a time to think about what we can be thankful for this year.

My youngest daughter overcoming her medical problems, my wife is winning her battle with breast cancer are at the top of list for us and of course, the rest of the tribe is safe and sound. But there are those who will be having their Thanksgiving dinner away from their families.......and for that is also give THANKS.......

BE SAFE.......

Daytrading Educational Workshop....May 31, to June 2, 2008

So here we go again.....another educational workshop.....another day of live trading.....another fun filled weekend....May 31 to June 2, 2008...

ATTENTION....ATTENTION....ATTENTION
RED ALERT....RED ALERT....REALERT...
A 3 DAY EDUCATIONAL TRADING WORKSHOP IN THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE complete with a day of "live" trading!!!!!!!!
MAY 31st to the JUNE 2nd.......Ya'll Come Now...HEAR!!!!!!!

DETAILS.........

FRIDAY May 30th
A meet and greet at "The Brewery" on the Parkway in Gatlinburg starting at 8:00pm just ask for me.......
Here is the address but you can ask any desk clerk for directions to the Smoky Mountain Brewery: 865-436-4200 1004 Parkway # 501 Gatlinburg, TN.

SATURDAY May 31st
7:45am Breakfast is served at the Pancake Pantry starting a 7:45am, you can't come to Gatlinburg without enjoying some East Tennessee pancakes.......it's located at Pancake Pantry 628 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 865-436-4724 again any desk clerk can give you directions.....this will end at 8:45am so we can get to the house for the workshop......

9:30am Money Management and we will start out with what I believe is the most important part of any workshop...and that is money management. But this part is also about having problems, fears, depression and so on. Getting out of a slump and how. About believing in yourself and not in some market guru. And how to design a money management system for "your" trading style and then how to monitor it for the best overall results.....there will be a new twist this time around…..:)

11:30am The "first bar trade" and all the details fit to print.....which ones to avoid, which ones to take and how to manage it......also the three bar reversal and how to manage that one......rules rules and all the rules....along with questions and answers....

12:00...High Noon LUNCH...... Lunch will be from McAllister's Deli....I personally don't like to go to workshop and seminars and the food is something you can't spell or pronounce. So we will have all the fixins to make a great sandwich....some potato salad or cole slaw, a nice garden salad and mixed fruit and a dessert for those who didn't eat salad.....ROTFL.........if you have any special needs please let us know so my daughters will be able to have it for you........

1:00pm... Natural Rhythm... I believe there is a natural order to the market, Fibonacci levels and where they come from and how to use them to find a nice safe low risk...or defined risk I guess would be better trade. One of the people I follow and has given me my edge is Carolyn. You can and should study her work at http://www.fibonacciqueen.com/ and also study the site at http://www.mjbraun.net/ which is Mark's. I am been a student of Robert Krausz for a long time and as part of being his student was being involved in Gann's work with Fibonacci levels. Carolyn started her service about 6 years ago or so and I have been with her ever since, there is a reason.......so we will work thru all the levels to find the ones that matter......but study these site if you haven't already. Mark was a student at one time of Carolyn and since gone out on his own, his work is also solid with no smoke and mirrors.....This section is the first of three parts that will get us to a trading plan by Sunday night and ready to trade live on Monday......

3:30pm...Defining a trend using indicators..... this part of the workshop should be the most interesting as we start to build a trading plan. How many indicators do you need, which ones, what time frame is best and on and on. So, this week I will be snapping charts as the week unfolds and these charts will be used for the workshop, no using charts from 3 years ago that worked perfectly. But rather charts from the unknown at this point in time. It would be a good idea then, as the week unfolds to take notes about problems you are having so we can talk about them since we will be working off the same page.....that is the 9 minute, 3 minute and the 144 tick charts of the ER. But we will define a trend and then define a pullback in the direction of the trend and then even go so far as to define a COUNTER TREND SETUP and when it's safe to actually take that one......

I expect this to go into Sunday also.......since we will be ending up for the day around 5:00pm....

BREAKS: Anyone that knows me knows I could talk about trading long after the cows come home, so we will take breaks when I see that more then 4 people are either praying or taking a nap....about 10-15 minutes so we can all walk around and take a potty break.

6:00pm....DINNER.....I know a few of you would like to tour the house, hug a tree and we have a few inside the house, see my office and so on. So, I have arranged for a hillbilly band to come and play while we eat dinner at the house, open bar....of course. This will give everyone time to talk to the other attendees, network, share stories and whatever. Trading is sometimes a lonely business and this will give you the opportunity to meet others that share a common goal. But at 9:00pm YOU ARE OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!

SUNDAY June 1st
7:45am Breakfast is served at the Pancake Pantry starting a 7:45am, you can't come to Gatlinburg without enjoying some East Tennessee pancakes.......it's located at Pancake Pantry 628 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 865-436-4724 again any desk clerk can give you directions.....this will end at 8:45am so we can get to the house for the workshop......

9:30am......Defining a trend using indicators...not sure where we will leave off from yesterday but wherever it is this is where we will pickup on......this part of the workshop is to explore how to develop a trading plan, back test it, keep records or a log, and find out if it's just more noise or something of value. How many indicators do you need, which ones talk the talk and which ones don't walk the walk. By the time we are done with the second part of this you will be ready for the magic.

11:30am.....Market internals.....With 3 case studies in the manuals, two of them for an entire week we start to bring together the natural rhythm, the indicator and the internals. 8 conditions and what they mean and when it's just BSski or noise. Could you trade with just fib levels and the internals? Could you trade with just the internals......WOW!!!! We'll see, but the manual is jammed full of examples.

12:00...High Noon LUNCH...... Lunch will be from McAllister's Deli again ....I personally don't like to go to workshop and seminars and the food is something you can't spell or pronounce. So we will have fruit, and all the fixins to make a great sandwich....some potato salad or cole slaw, a nice garden salad and mixed fruit and a dessert for those who didn't eat salad.....ROTFL.........if you have any special needs please let us know so my daughters will be able to have it for you........

1:00pm......Market Internals......after a nice lunch and before you fall totally asleep we will finish up with the market internals. I know before anyone says anything that this should bring out at least a hundred thousand questions.......so part of this segment will be how to go thru your charts at home and what you need to do so you can it from across the room and under your desk.

3:00pm......Pulling it all together and defining what we are going to trade....Now that we have the natural order of the market under our belts, and have talked a defined way to look at trend, the pullback, the setup, the trigger, and how to manage the trade we will put a trading plan in writing.....

4:00pm .....The final answer time.....This will be where you can answer questions about, options, bonds, rice, banana puddin or whatever and if I know the answer I will tell ya, if I don't I will tell you that also. But maybe someone else knows the answer and that would be just great if they shared their ideas......

5:00pm.....YOU ARE OUT OF HERE BABY.....This will be around the time we will end for the day and dinner is on your own, hopefully you have made friends with some other guys or couples and will go out to dinner and enjoy the evening busting on each other.....most likely it will be about the workshop so far, but that's OK TOO!!!

MONDAY June 2nd
7:45am Breakfast is served at the Pancake Pantry starting a 7:45am, you can't come to Gatlinburg without enjoying some East Tennessee pancakes.......it's located at Pancake Pantry 628 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 865-436-4724 again any desk clerk can give you directions.....this will end at 8:45am so we can get to the house for the workshop......

9:00am to 9:30am Before I start trading for the day, three representatives from 3 local charities will be at the house, The ASPCA, The Boys and Girls Boys of Gatlinburg and the Good Shepard Clinic. I promised back aways to have a Trade-a-Long at the house once it was finished for my trading buddies, and I will fulfill that promise. As part of this workshop, there is no fee, no BSski to buy, no subscription to sign up for....nothing. But when you get something for nothing, what value does it have in the end......NONE. So, it will be between you and your soul as to what amount you give to these charities, it doesn't matter to me as I don't have to be there when you look into the mirror each morning.........now do I?

9:30am to 4:30pm TRADING BABY TRADING......I will be trading live, real money, most likely a 20 lot unless it turns into a trend day and then there are no limits. While in a trade, or when I see a setup coming, I will talk about it, talk thru it, not around it. There won't be any question or answer period until I say, "Anyone have a question NOW????? " People always want to come and sit next to me and watch me trade and this is your opportunity to do just that. But money is money and BSski is BSski and I take no prisoners....NONE.

4:30pm... the final answer...... I think by the time we are done for the day everyone will be spent, but I will have a follow up on questions about whatever. Hopefully as the day unfolds and I am walking around talking to myself most of the questions will be answered.....but you will have 30 minutes to an hour and then it's over, pack up the balloons and head to the airport as I get ready for the next event on Thursday...as United Way fund raiser for 800.........it's Oktoberfest in TENNNESSEEEeeeeeeeeeee.........

ANY QUESTION PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP

Also visit http://www.tradersparadise.blogspot.com for updates.

I have had several people say they can come, but then found out they couldn't while other said they would like to come but couldn't and now say they can.......SO, I can totally lost on the count.

Please, re-confirm that you are coming and we need you names, address and phone number OR you wouldn't get on the property. Again, most know about the trouble I have had in the past and we take security very personal here, so the bottom line is....IF YOU AIN"T ON THE LIST.....you ain't going to get past the gate house..........

PLACES TO STAY: There are more hotels and motels here then almost anywhere
else in Tennessee. The one closest to "The Educational Workshop" are and in
no special order:

Buckberry Lodge located next door. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST.......
http://www.buckberrylodge.com/
Bear Skin Lodge located at the bottom of the mountain.
http://www.bearskinlodgeontheriver.com/ SECOND BEST
Days Inn
www.DaysInn.com, 1109 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN. (865) 436-5811
Hampton Inns
www.hilton.com, 967 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN. (865) 436-4878
LeConte Inn
www.leconteview.com
Park Vista Hotel
http://www.parkvista.com/view.html GREAT BUT THE FURTHEST WAY
and you can go to http://www.gatlinburg.com/places-to-stay/ and check out
all the places available for your visit. The ones listed above are the
closest to the "The Educational Workshop".

AIRPORT:
The closest airport is Knoxville (TYS).

Elvis has left the building this week

Well, I got a cold or maybe it is the flu, but I do konw one thing.....I got my money worth this time. For that reason, and the fact that Thrusday is Thanksgiving which means that Friday will be zip for trading. Wednesday could be but most likely won't be either. Which gives us Monday and Tuesday to make some lunch money this week, however, I would sooner sleep until 11:00am and then have a nice bowl of my wife's world famous Campbell Chicken Soup served with a big box of Ritz crackers and a pile of grilled cheeses.

So the jam session scheduled for Monday after the market will be moved one week until next Monday, this will give everyone time to write down a couple more questions....:) So I wouldn't be the chat room until the Monday after Thanksgiving, but if you need anything just email me........

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.......

The Super Universal Command WAR Room......

The new office is up and running with all new cabinets and counters. The cabinet doors are made from recycled barn boards clued together, planed and hand brushed. Then outside components were made from solid cherry boards. The entire wrap around desk tops are also made with cherry and recycled barn boards and inlaided with leather.

I do have a problem with my new assistant, i caught him the other day taking pictures of the office and the super new computer systems. The old office had 5 monitors and this new office now has 14 monitors all together being driven by 3 new yada yada yada computers that crank out millions of pieces of data points and find those low risk/highly profitable trades.

I'll be keeping an eye on this guy, because he might be up to something.....but Steve is just trying to learn the ropes and learn how to trade.....hummmmm!!!!

Singing the Daytraders blues.............

War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing
War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing
War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
War is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction destruction, Who wants to die

War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for, Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars each day
War can't give life it can only take it away

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord there's gotta be a better way
That's better than.........War

Why do I do what I do........

Ever wonder why I do what I do, well I have seen it all or just about all of it I guess there isn't anything new out there. Just the stuff recycled into something else and packaged differently, just to see if you will fall for it. The Steve Maxtrix of the world are no different then the Ken Woods of the world...all making you believe they have the best snake oil for sale. But what got this started in the first place was emails and talking to people at workshops back in the 90's, here is one that came across my desk this week....

"You cannot imagine how grateful I am for the 3 Min Bar trade. I'm 65 years old and my Financial Manager, an old school "buy and hold"...."you can't time the market" kind of guy managed to invest almost my entire 3.2 million retirement portfolio in the NASDAQ. When it crashed in 2000, he insisted we ride it down. He promised, ...."it is going to turn around any day now and when it does we'll get the bounce back up if we stay in". I lost almost everything and I am having to start all over at my advanced age....starting at a place most people are at 23. Losing my retirement made me wish I had followed my first impulse and studied the markets upon my retirement at age 56, rather than following my life-long dream of getting an RV and traveling full time for a while.

But just as I was about to give up hope, I found your 3 Min Bar Method and I now I hope you will be kind enough to give me some help understanding the trading method you use after that trade."

The real assholes out there are the ones that have never actually traded for themselves but go thru a training program, get a license of some kind and then start to tell you how to invest. Back in the late 90's they looked real sharp to most as they told their clients to buy more.......then came that earnings report from LU and the book to bill as down to days instead of months, it was April of 2000 and YK2 was becoming a distance memory to most, a hyped up event and a total joke to others.
The major companies had paid the penalties on their contracts to purchase new equipment and canceled orders for YK2 equipment during the first quarter of 2000 that they didn't need now. The bubble popped that day, and anyone with a fricking brain knew it......YAHOO traded to 300 a share for air....the P/E was illegal in all 50 states but the District of Columbo doesn't count...RIGHT.

Instead of your financial manager and calling you and telling you TO GET THE HELL OUT AND INVEST IN BANANA PUDDIN.....they told you to buy more...buy the dip....so their firms would have some sucker to take it off their hands, and people did all the down to YHOO at 12 bucks......LU to 3.50 and so on.

YOU don't need those empty suits, you only need information to empower yourself...you don't need any market guru selling you their secret sauce you only need information to empower yourself.

Next week, most likely on Thursday after the market closes we will have a jam session for those who are in the chat room but not up to speed yet on how to take control of your own trading and empower yourself to be all you can be.....after 9:30am thats is......:)

I love you folks...I really do......

Yes, I love you folks when you send me a picture of your charts and in 8,000 words try to tell me where I have gone a stay......Last week, TonyUK of all people came into the chat room and spent the afternoon giving me advise on how stupid the first bar trade, tell us that all is forgiven and please come back to the Woodies CCI Club and on and on he went for about an hour. Thank you for invite, but I'm doing just fine where I am.

Now, I do take advise, because I don't know everything there is about market structure, I might know enough to get a few bucks out of the market, but beyond that I know there is always another way to skin the cat.....sorry Mittens. So I'm very much interested in other points of view.

Ok, that is until I get one of these charts....WHY, will I believe you have to use price to confirm any setup. The other day, Woodie was talking about price and that you don't need no stinking prices and he even went on to say that there has never been any books written on pricing with price.....I about died on the spot.

From laughing so hard that is, When you look at this chart my first question always is....how clear is the info displayed? Can you find something quickly without taking our a slide rule? Where is price based on this info that is presented? Could I find a trade setup from across the room or do I have to be an analyst and by the time I get the stones to take the trade...the move is 80% and ready for the retracement and stress me out.

But, please continue sending me the charts, and also please continue to trade them I can use the order flow. Seems a lot of people are getting better at trading that visit the chat room everyday....on managing a trade and holding on for a nice winner, having the stones to take a setup and also to pass on one, to know it's OK to be wrong as long as you are in control of events as they unfold in real time. Real time trading....hummmm......now that's something you won't see in too many places.

In fact, I would be more the glad to stand up in front of the world and trade against anyone that has the stones to trade against me....anytime ...any place. Not that I am better then anyone else, but I'm also not afraid to hang it out there for better or worse.......

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....:)