What kind of measures do you display? Scalar? Vector? Our Tucson group of IBD MeetUP is just making the transition from scalar to vector. The group is running at a max of 150% return for 2006 as of mid Feb. We end our first Q of '06 next meeting. We are red/green for graphics of principles and we run red/black for market stuff. The right 1/3 of our charts display the three channels (LT, IT and ST) and all colors are chosen for this stuff. The 128 page handout for last night's meeting was in 7 colors. I definitely used specific colors to achieve specific results. I am using colors very differently than you are. you are in the sensory/emotion combo as it relates to your concerns vis a vis trading to make money. I and those I work with do not have that on the table as a different NLP orientation than yours. I use colors intentionally to deal with a CPM to achieve transference of knowledge and skills, neither of which have a significant emotional component. The NLP I do continually at a two week frequency, plus intervening 1 on 1's, is a technicolor display that has no connection to the person's make up. Color lets me break away from the past that is there. Each segment of whatever sequence is on the table has a different and differentiating color. Think of a person dealing with making money at levels that are not his normal past performance. For a person to do a routine "work" effort of making money, he needs to complete his routine and have closure. Four differently colored steps make up the routine which is done repeatedly. Getting closure on the four steps each time they are done is a key factor. Handling each step as an independant activity and not slurring and getting messy is cardinal. Themes also interlace these activities. Yellow is the theme color of Acumulation/Distribution (the highest frequency direct market variable). This stuff has an effect. the pages in the handout on white paper are now on a web site. 16 hours elapsed. The call I got on the transfer contained the note that all the color stuff on the PDF was redone because the scanning effort caused the color to not be "good enough". They will redo the PDF from the originals I had staff use to get the handout copying done. This team, mentioned just above, that does the housekeeping for the group, coincidentally has two employees (instructors) of Investools on it. Color is an estremely important tool for getting stuff across to people. Color used to almeliorate emotional problems and barriers associated with trading shortcomings and especially "repeated failure" where the lizard syndrome is part of the picture, falls short almost always. It is a crutch that is not viable. Obviously, the experience of "poor" trading with repeated similar experiences is a defined deep learning process where for each learning a negative reward is handed out. The value of color in the NPL around these kinds of emotions involved has only to do with one color. Green. Green (the negative reward of lost money) is the color of what the person does not have after the trading lesson where he failed and there were very significant repeated emotional upwellings. The CRT display is the sourse of the emotions; its coloring (changed as people do over time) is still just a box sitting there with a boundary. The box is the thing that is taking the GREEN away. You can't fix the box. Use color outside of the box to fix the viewer's knowledge and skills. Comic books on trading would work very well. Attached are a few pages of the handout with two colored ilustrations. The writing is on a draft level (the assignment is to get it rewritten into the format of an 11 part trading business plan found in Appendix B (pp 75-86)