Guessing the mystery MA has been a fun game for some, so here's a green one for everyone to ponder over for a couple minutes. (Hint: I'm fibbing). A forex friend said it's pretty darn good on the bund, so I slapped it on my charts today for a look-see. Lo and behold, it's come into play. Here on the 3 min YM, it held 4 times before finally giving way (btw, the green line has held as support for the 3 min ER all day so far) . Aside from the general thought of support giving way if you bang it enough times, right now I'm taking a break and looking to see if there are any clues as to how the golden goose move could be differentiated from the ducks.

It has also been near a camarilla L3 level today, so that held as a scalpable support area in the morning. I played it a couple times. Damn too wicky overall, though, for my liking and certainly not as hospitable as the previous days. bline's just been floating in the middle like a dead fish, as has the 34. Perhaps a bit of last minute end of the quarter primping and pooping happening as everyone settles into comfortable seats for the next jump ball.

Here's a website that'll rate how good/evil your website is.

Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another important aspect in gematria are the numerical values of letters: A=1, B=2 ... I=9, J=10, K=20 and so on. The Gematriculator uses Finnish alphabet, in which Y is a vowel.

Experts consider the mathematical patterns in the text of the Holy Bible as God's watermark of authenticity. Thus, the Gematriculator provides only results that are absolutely correct.

64% good, and I'm not even trying. :P

I had a college roommate that always looked forward to the day after Easter. He'd go over to Woolworth's and buy all the chocolate bunnies off the half-priced table. It was honestly one of the highlights of his year. He kept this stash in a secret place, and he ate them in secret (at least he never offered me any). Funny the stuff you remember. Anyway, that memory popped into my head yesterday (and lingers on today). If I didn't have this hardcore anti-social behavior that I've developed, I'd give him a ring and see how the chocolate bunny pickings were yesterday.

The trading's been good so far this week. I've only traded in the mornings, and that's been enough. I'm messing with my charts less and less, so that must be a good sign. Only thing I've done recently is to give up on the super shortterm charts (ticks & volume). That got to be an idiot's game trying to figure out what on Sierra corresponds to a Esignal 233 tick or 250 volume chart. Then when I'd find something to approximate it, someone would say the Esignal 500v or the 133 tick chart was even better. So fuck it. Just using 3 minute charts for everything. And enough of that gio shit of looking at a dozen timeframes and looking at the 30 or 60 to stay in a trade all day. On a strong trend day, the MAs will keep you in just as well (if you have the balls to do so).

Right now, I'm pissed because I've spent all afternoon finding out that an entire spindle of 50 cd-r's I bought yesterday from Circuit City are defective. I've bought two spindles, but I'm going to get a refund on the unopened one. I'll see what the policy is on returning the open one. These are TDKs they have on sale this week, and I've never had a problem with them, so this sucks.

Move over, Robin Dayne. There's a new trading guru coach in town. Her name is Adrienne Toghraie (google her for her website... if you wish). She'll be in Woodie's room Thursday after the close to pitch her famous TIT program: Trading In Tatters. No, that's not right. It's TOT: Trading On Target. Sorry about that. I repeat. That's the TOT program. It's available as a home study course for the nominal cost of $600 (pictured above -- any resemblance to Potter's Field is purely coincidental).

Good news for local people, too. Adrienne will be in Irvine, CA on June 4th & 5th for a 2 day intensive training seminar ($2500 -- $500 discount for early enrollment). Cya there!

As I sit here in my sleep deprived stupor, waiting for this agonizing market to close, the WCCI chat has taken a turn towards the surreal. Verus is on the mic. Ricky007 is on the keyboard. They're conversing about hard alcohol and beautiful women with Verus playing Yo-Yo Ma in the background. Verus says he's having a Cohiba, but he sounds totally bonged out like Tommy Chong today. Ricky sounds like... well, Ricky. It's good to have him back.

This, my friends, is entertainment. I thank the big Easter Bunny above that I still have 150 days left in my hotcomm subscription.

I'm going to take a pass on this Verus_FL afternoon and ask the trading gods for a "do over" next week.

Good news here is the baby is solidly on the road towards recovery. He even turned off my computer twice today, so he's returning to his ol' bugger self. I've been up since 3 am. I've got to fix my bodyclock this holiday weekend. Did I trade or even watch the EUR in the early morning like an opportunistic trader would? Nope. I was watching infomercials. Did you know Don Lapre is still around? He's the spastic guy who said you could make a fortune a decade ago by placing tiny little ads in newspapers. Now he's hawking the world's greatest vitamins. How is this guy not in prison?

I saw the "Forex Made Easy" infomercial (or whatever it's called), and even that didn't prompt me to move my carcass off the sofa and watch a live chart. Trading takes a lot of stamina and self-motivation. Both of which are currently on the orange line on my trade-o-meter. Luckily, all I need to rev my engines is some sleep this weekend and a glass of apple/pear/tomato/kale juice from the Jack Lalanne Juicer. Yes, we bought that off the infomercial. We're a little pissed because we bought the old model for Christmas, and he's now got a sleeker Express model that comes with a free $50 value chop-o-matic thingy. Damn it, Jack. Ahh, what the hell are you gonna do?

Woke up. Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head.

It was shaping up to be another tough night. Baby was super congested and super cranky. His cough was extra phlegmy, and we were actually hoping he might vomit up some more of that muck, but he didn't. Somehow, he got to sleep around 1 am and has remained so up to now. An amazing 6+ hours. He's 2 hours overdue for his amoxicillin dose, but I'm not waking him up. Wifey is also getting much needed sleep.

I woke up for gio wednesday, and I'm ready for bed again.

Stealing the title of another blog, "keep moving.... nothing to see here."

No trading yet this week. We took the baby to the hospital 10:30pm Sunday night with a 104 degree fever. No overnite stay needed, but he's on medication for an ear infection, alternating baby motrin and tylenol for the fever, and we've been dealing with everything from a terrible wet cough that induces vomiting, inconsolable crying, zero sleep, lack of appetite and lethargy. In short, total misery.

We'll have to wait a little longer for photos from both the WCCI National Shindig/TAL and Woodie's experience at the SFO St Paddy's Green Beer with Babs Bush bash. So for now just enjoy this Barbara Bush photo from the Pomona Quilt-A-Long. Yes, the woman gets around.

Speaking of getting around, Woodie has another reason to continue his non-stop tour of Earth. Apparently, at the SFO event, he won a door prize or raffle from CBOT/CME: two round-trip business class tickets to anywhere. Honestly, Woodie needs more free air travel like Warren Buffett needs his social security check. I have no doubt he'll be donating those tickets to a worthy cause like MAW. It's for the kids.

Obviously with such a busy agenda, Woodie wasn't a big presence in chat this week. He did pop in on Friday to say he was testing a 233-tick chart on Fibonacci Trader. Why Fibonacci Trader? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe we'll find out when he does his "full disclosure" thing again.

Things have been unnaturally quiet after Anaheim. None of the usual high-fives in chat among the attendees, sharing some in-joke about soup or water kress sandwiches or doing shooters at Hooter's. There's no new buzz about a newly introduced chart gizmo. No new streaming lecture for the rest of us to enjoy. At least not yet.

WCCI has yet to rebound from a series of body blows. First, the sordid Dax affair with all that bogus house account hype being quickly swept under the rug. Secondly, Sidewindergate. Thirdly, the embarrassment of the FibCCI. That sucker was shelved before being released. Lastly, not only did gio bail on Anaheim, but she's practically gone Greta Garbo.

This off-shoot circle of blogs and a chatroom can't be helping matters for the Club. A who's who roster of former Woodie All-Stars and Hall of Famers have defected or reappeared after a long exile to use these various venues to air their grievances, poke fun at the mothership or at least fondly reminisce about better times in the "good ol' days."

Don't count out Woodie yet, though. If nothing else, he's a persistant bugger. I'm sure he's got something huge up his sleeve, which will probably be unveiled at the London TAL this summer. Like I said, he's working on some new Woodpecker 233 tick thing at this very moment. He's also got some mystery Forex thing under wraps. Perhaps he's emptied his Esignal feeding bag and is now looking towards Fibonacci Trader? How much is Fib Trader? Over a grand, I'm sure. Well, don't forget the $50 MAW donation Fib Trader will be making to in the name of WCCI, Inc. for each $1000+ they pocket. It's win-win for everyone.

Well, that's enough weekend dirt from me. Oh, one more thing, next Wednesday morning's moderator is being advertised as a special "mystery guest." That gets you tingling, doesn't it? Chuck that NCAA hoops pool, and start a Wednesday mystery guest pool. Who can it be?

Nice one that got away a short while ago. It had been very flat and slow developing for over 20 minutes. I thought I had all the time in the world and got cute on the DOM for a "perfect entry." Never got filled. Didn't chase.

1) a 9/34 carom kiss
2) erGODic turning down
3) RSI-W broke it's mini bart simpson haircut uptrend, then rejected that line from underneath + stochs turned over towards a downward bline
4) never saw this before, but it was a teeny-weeny 50 CCI ghost on the zeroline

Damn, I hate how slow blogger is! Oh great, now the smoke alarm goes off. BRB.


I'm taking a midday break and just saw that my IB data has been out for the past hour, so I'm on an extended break now. ESPN is airing the House steroids hearing, btw. Bunch of parents and scientists so far, but Bud Selig, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are coming up.


The chart shows my best trade of the morning, getting 20 ticks on the YM. There was a nice confluence of all my indicators. There was a clean carom of the 9/34. It was a drbob 5034. Stoch was slinging up towards a rising bline. erGODic bottomed, too. I took the trade off the 5034, but also note the Wilder's 14 RSI laid on top of the stochs. It made a nice tiny inverted ghost at the 50 line. I subsequently placed it on top of my CCI section to give it a look-see. Nice inverted ghost there too. The blue line is the 14 CCI and that didn't show crap.

I'm still working on exits, but for this one, I held until it closed under the 9 at 10675. In hindsight, notice the RSI made a tiny ghost in a big ghost pattern at that point. Might've been a nice short if I was bright enough to think that way.


Good lord. Have you ever done this? Fancying myself smarter than the average monkey, I decided to cut a tomato in half while holding it in my hand. I figured I could deftly slice it down the middle and stop the knife half a millimeter away from my skin. I miscalculated and put the blade half a millimeter into my pinkie. OUCH.

Okay, breaktime over.

Apologies to Dr. Alexander Elder, also to Cathy, and what the heck, also Bob. I know Cathy has a great sense of humor about this. :)

I've been stricken with horrible spring allergies. First time that's happened since moving to the left coast. It's basically wrecked my day. I stuck to just sporadically papertrading the euro today (and doing a crummy job of it).

After a sleepless night of not breathing, it was a joy to see and hear Cathy moderating for the 3rd day in a row this week. This is better than the Twilight Zone marathon on New Year's Day on the Sci-Fi channel.

Cathy has stirred up some debate in the comments section, but my opinion remains the same. She's a good listen. The woman's an open book and the audience laps it up. What was on the agenda today? She mentioned her age, her husband's surgeries, hairdressing, housecleaning on the boat. I'm sure there was more, but I was only catching bits and pieces while blowing my nose off and popping benadryls. There was some CCI stuff, too. Something about PTs and TLBs comprising 97% of the realm of Woodieness, and everything else is just subsets and split-levels and whatnot. I'm probably way off with that. I wasn't all there today. I should've written that down. That was a gem.

There was a slightly embarrassing moment with Cathy not realizing she had the 20/14 CCI on her charts instead of 14/6. I didn't catch that myself. Only 1 person in the whole room figured it out. I forget who that person is, but s/he certainly gets a star for the day. That reminds me to check later on what CCI indicators I have on my charts. It's all very confusing.

Will Cathy return for Thursday? I hope so. My advice to Cathy is to make hay while the sun's out. If you can get accepted into the WCCI inner circle, a whole new magical world awaits. You can be like Woodie, living the life of a rock star, travelling the world on someone else's dime, receiving adulation from hundreds (instead of just me), and even meeting the President's mother. That would be cool.

Strange doings in the sky here this past weekend as the Air Woodie Balloon arrived safely from Arizona, as did the tony_UK piloted shamu 747 from the land of bangers and mash. I do kinda wish I was there, especially after the disasterous morning I suffered. How come nobody told me this was a quad witching week? I was fed mercilessly through the ginsu-matic, suffering several full stops on that damn YM. I was in sore need of a Robin Dayne rubdown after that. Is that part of the 10-pack?

Anyway, it's been a gorgeous day here (after a cold, sunless weekend) so I decided to spend the afternoon session outside sanding and putting a first coat of stain on the coffee table. That helped clear my mind. I actually got in for a couple good rides on the YM later to cut my day losses in half.

I would've completely shutdown the computer earlier, but my favorite mod, Cathy, was on for the 2nd half. No boat sounds or snoring today, but as always, a pleasant listen. I didn't get a chance to listen to everything unfortunately, but I did catch the Friday chart with the whopping losers. Very refreshing. Cathy, I too am a native NYer (Manhattan), who moved over the Hudson to Bergen County.

I wanted to discuss Camarilla pivots today, but they didn't really come into play on today's charts. Kiwi recently made a custom dll for them in Sierra. As always, you can find his latest stuff at Teddy's Board. Info on what the pivots are and how they supposedly work are at www.camarillaequation.com.

Gotta slap on a second coat of stain before the sun sets. Bye for now.

The Pomona Quilt-A-Long wrapped up yesterday, and a great time was had by all. I'm exhausted. It was great meeting everyone and putting a face to people's screen names in the hotcomm quilting room: Thimbellina, patches_uk, Singer, needles_CA, sew_chic, etc.

Good news for those who decided to go to Anaheim this weekend and couldn't make it to the "real deal event" in Pomona. The "Sew/Design & Profit Seminars and Workshops" is scheduled for April 22, 23 and 24 at the Holiday Inn Select at Diamond Bar, CA. They've got a special room rate of $84 (includes a free continental breakfast). Early bird registration packages end March 31st, so get on the stick and register today at (www.collinspub.com). We will not be going.



I really am exhausted. Not much difference between a sewing show and an AARP convention. It was a sea of blue hairs, purple hairs, no hairs, wheelchairs and walkers with tennis balls on the front legs. Worst of all were the morbidly obese women in the Lark Mobility Scooters. Those grandmas are reckless. They definitely need to come equiped with wide load warning signs and a beeping sound when they back up.

I haven't had the energy to do much with the markets the past few days. Only thing I've really done is just check out other blogs. Lots of nice blogs out there with a lot of nice features. Blogger seems to be one of the suckier blogs with very minimal add-ons and stuff available. I've added a few things on the side, if you haven't noticed, including the Shout Box this morning. I see "g" has spammed his site already. Thanks, g. I guess in lieu of playing around with my charts, I've been playing around with the blog. Don't know if I'll keep the bells and whistles, but let's try them out.

One thing I've been meaning to do for awhile is add some links. This template doesn't come with a links section so I had to figure out how to write it into the html. I did that a couple days back. Now just have to summon the strength to write in the actual links. I'll get to it.

On the bottom, there's a "Blogshares" link. It's a website where you can buy and sell shares in your own blog and other blogs. I guess it's just a timekilling game to accumulate fake wealth and build up fake self-esteem, sorta like what some folks are doing in WCCI. I signed up and claimed this blog because I thought other people had the ability to "claim" someone else's blog as their own, but that's not true. Not that it would matter, but hey, what's mine is mine. So, FWIW, I own 2000 shares in "A Daytrader's Diary" (40% of the float) and the value has risen from B$.20 to B$5.19. Whee! Now what should I do? I don't know. I better study the daily CCI chart later.


My grandmother passed away six years ago on March 10th. Time really flies. Nobody had the time to be bothered for a get together on the 10th, so we're doing it today. We're off to the cemetary now, then we'll have the traditional all you can eat buffet to follow. I don't know if this is the way you wanted it, Grandma, but this is our family, so I guess you wouldn't be too shocked.


I'll be back later to talk about the good stuff I'm messing around with like the godly erGODic and drbob's stuff and camarilla pivots. Cya.

As a follow-up to the recent SFO article, "Shitting on the CCI," I just got my hardcopy of the magazine in the mail today.

Woodie's been saying that at the Mile High CCI Club mini-TAL last week, the reps of SFO were apologizing profusely for the article. It's funny that SFO paid Woodie's expenses to be in Denver. They're also sponsoring the Babs Bush thingy that Woodie will also be appearing in. Someone was asleep at the wheel to allow a Woodie bashing article in the current issue. I bet there are a bunch of room jockeys itching to write a rebuttal article. They definitely let loose with an onslaught of online comments and emails to the editor, one or two which will surely be in next month's issue. It'd be mighty interesting to see a rebuttal tackling the original article's arguments point by point.

The author of the article, Brandy Alexander, has his own website which is mentioned at the end of the hardcopy article. Well, his first name isn't really Brandy, but he must be drunk to charge the prices he does for his real deal un-Woodie holy grail secrets. Everyone's always out to make a buck. Goddamn them.

I've been keeping a low profile in the days leading up to the WCCI National Shindig Extraordinaire on the off-chance that I actually attended. Maybe I'm ridiculously paranoid, but if I did go there, I didn't want to be publically outted as the dimwit Cheese-wannabe troublemaker. With hotcomm releasing private information and rumors of the clever team of WCCI net sleuths being able to do whois's and whowas's to get IP addresses, names, numbers and IB account balances, maybe sitting in the corner of the chatroom with the "I'm not Fearless" t-shirt wouldn't be enough anonymity. Blogger doesn't release private info, do they?

Anyway, I'm not going. I'm not going to the Wealth Expo either, though I do need new t-shirts, key chains and a 4 week trial subscription to Barron's. So much for that. However, there is some good news. I am going to the Pomona Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival on the 10th, 11th and 12th. That'll be at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. Exit at Fairplex Drive off I-10. I'll the heterosexual male there pushing the unhappy baby in the stroller for 6 hours a day.

My wife's in the textile business. She actually has skills and can make good money in her profession (when she feels like working), unlike me in my chosen profession. So she has the right to go to her sewing thing, and I belong at a atock market wealth thingy like "Bush belongs at a MENSA meeting." That was my wife's analogy.

I can live with it. Maybe she gets her creative juices going and wants to finally return to work. Originally she was going to take off a couple months after the baby was born. Instead she took off 3 months prior to the birth and now over a year afterwards with no end in sight. All the while, I've been burning up my cozy little exhuberant era CMGI and CNET slush fund that was supposed to be earmarked for a leisurely subsequent lifetime of daytrading losses. Instead, it's been going, going, gone for life purposes like food, shelter, and diapers.