Where were you in prison? Where I was they didn't play good music. Which reminds me that I meant to mention another reason for using audibles. Perhaps you can perceive multiple separated parts of a visual presentation simultaneously, but I cannot. However, I can follow perfectly clearly all the parts in a Bach four-part fugue. I have given others this test, and most cannot even follow a two-part fugue. Which led me to the conclusion that interleaved rapid-fire audibles would be a good way for me to assimilate market action coming from studies presented on different parts of the screen.
Ah, yes, I play the overture to Don Giovanni at the end of the trading day when I look at my poor execution reports.
Spydertrader, just because you made fun of me I added hoot1.wav for an NQ spread of two ticks. Been getting hurt too much by that lately. Hard to make money with an expectancy of two ticks when a widened spread and the round trip commission takes it all away. Well, it does leave me 20 cents.
You need a bell that goes off whenever you feel the urge to trade a strategy that has a target of 2 ticks.
The decorative doctor is trading an extreme form of SCT wherein he scalps inside long one minute bars for ticks. In response to his need for a low-anxiety system that will have him in the market no more than 30 seconds, I developed several methods for determining the prabable extension of a one-minute bar. I originally coded it for him as a "helper" (red-light-short, green-light-long, yellow-light-flat), but he was so inattentive he often missed signals, hence the audibles that he claims he invented. A truly serious trader does not surf porn and drink cheap champagne all day.