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EverPress plugin impressions
I finally got the EverPress plugin working. I’m not sure what the original problem was, but it wouldn’t sync with my notebooks as intended. I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled it a couple times and things started working. Thanks to Martin Hawksey for quick and helpful support of EverPress.
Unfortunately now that I can sync notes, I see a couple of limitations. The first and most important one is that it only seems to include one chart image when it builds a post. It also truncates the post after some unconfigurable amount of text. These both may really be issues with EverNote’s API and the way RSS works, but they force you to divert to the EverNote site to get the full view of the post. When you get there, you still may not be able to see a full chart because the note viewer page has a big header full of not much, and it takes up a lot of screen real estate. Again, not a problem with the EverPress plugin really, but it does damage the reader’s experience.
The other problem I ran into was relatively minor for me, but might be more important for others. There appears to be a timezone sync issue. I have my blog set for US/Pacific. EverNote also uses US/Pacific when I create posts (not sure what it does when I’m traveling). However, when a post get’s created from a note, it has a timestamp in the future. I didn’t count, but it’s probably GMT without a timezone spec. This causes the post to be put in a holding tank to be published several hours in the future. I’ve got a question in to Martin about this, and maybe it’s just a simple config error somewhere.
Another thing is that you can’t specify a sync time that is smaller than once per day, so if you are trying to post relatively real-time things, this probably isn’t the solution for you.
All that said, EverNote is a great tool, and EverPress is also a great plugin, just not applicable to my situation I guess. Too bad.
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Sunday Market Analysis 2/20/10
Macro
Fed raised the overnight rate 25bp on Thursday after market close. Rather muted response, but there was some downward pressure. Greece debt problems still continue to unfold putting pressure on the euro. Jobs were worse than expected, but spending was better than expected.
Monthly Overview
Going forward, I will do this at the end of the month (probably on the weekend), but this one will start the ball rolling. Next monthly should be at the end of February.
The ES has risen from the lows of early 2009 and is back in a range that we worked in 2003-2004. The high point of that range is 1163.75. In the range that follows, there is also a spike low down to 1135.75. The current leg up reached a peak of 1148, so pretty near the top of that range, and on the monthly chart, did not close above the earlier spike low. The rise has been on gradually declining volume, and when high volume has come in, the month has closed lower than it opened. There is also a divergence in the magnitude of the force index and the price action. Price keeps rising, but on lower force. Both of these things are bearish.
Looking at the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), it looks like we may be coming out of a downtrend and into a bracketed range. Based on the profile, I would put the range from 1025-1165. That would be a little wider than the 2003-2004 range, but almost the same as the range in late 2001 to early 2002. That puts us right about in the middle of it right now.
From a Fib perspective, we pierced the 50% mark of the major retracement starting in September 2008 at 1126.25. The 61.8 is way up at 1235. It doesn’t seem like there is enough volume pressure to get us there, but you never know. Drawing a retracement from May 08 shows that we pierced the 61.8% at 1144.75. So, som Fib confluence in the 1125-1145 range.
We’ve also broken the supporting trendline from the 2009 lows, and are probing the line from below right now.
Weekly Overview
The EMD on the weekly chart shows the ES possibly coming out of an upt…[read more]
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Testing Everpress Linkage
This is a test…
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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-19
- @FuturesTrader71 what does the N in NVPOC stand for? in reply to FuturesTrader71 #
- @Z_Bob Thanks. I guess I knew that, but didn't make the connection for some reason… in reply to Z_Bob #
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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-18
- @roberams @FuturesTrader71 completely agree. The webinars and tweets have been instrumental in my evolution as a trader! Thanks!!! #
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