Hey, Matt, Dodger etc

I'm finding too that without the experience of a clearly defined style, which seems to be the hardest part to learn,  it is quite difficult to know what to filter out in the blog, or at least to discipline yourself to do so, although it is clear from sitting in on the blog that that is a necessity, or else I'm wasting my whole day sitting there with my head reeling, tempted to enter on all the short term signals on all sorts of stocks, unclear which are which, falling for my worst habits of taking on more than I'm capable of, and not fully equipped on the follow through. What is obvious to a newcomer, though somewhat understandable, is that there is a fairly wide gulf generally between the blog and the evening updates.

I'm starting to think of developing my own hard & fast rules, but thinking that a good place to start is sticking to 2-3 indices and a triple timeframe daily-hrly-15m, and maybe drilling down to 3m if I'm around and forgetting about all the individual stock stuff till I can succesfully nail that. Not that I haven't thought that through before and failed, falling for overtrading and lack of focus and organization. I've tried so many different approaches with less than stellar success. I've been doing a good deal of this for a few years and I'm not stupid but I still feel like a beginner.

Do you you agree this this kind of focus before being able to range around is essential to learning this properly? I feel like I'm in need of reform from 50 positions on many timeframes to a maximum of 5 fully monitored, scaled in & out, and rule-bound.

Like many I suspect, I want to be a swing trader only, checking in a few times a day maybe with a handful of alarms running. Does this sound like a good way to you? I know it's not your job to help people get their system straight, but I suspect this is the issue with may others like me, so succinct advice on a good way in eg stockcharts? QT? real time? 3 monitors setup  might help you keep  & better satisfy many of your clients.

Also though I appreciate your wider perspective and dedication already, maybe you could consider very specifically tailoring certain blog posts (perhaps a different colour?) or one of your guys each day to the swingers eg timely posts on the week's top 3 indexes on 15 and 60m timeframes, with warnings/entries on all timeframes down to 3m, eg I was thinking of following only SPY, GDX and USO right now, and maybe a few days from now that selection could change.

This along perhaps with exact records of watch list entries & exits (which I'm finding a little unclear whether they ever got entered) say to a  maximum of 2 on top of the indexes. Maybe even an initial target and stop loss for the indices based on the entry time frame.

 I know you guys don't want to be burdened in your own trading overly, but I think if the majority of members are in this workaday swingers camp, it may be worth it to you to focus even more effort in this direction, so they can sign in at the open and close & random times of the day and get a clear picture from the blog what is pertinent to them in this simpler style and how the picture from the evening update appears to be playing out, (opinion only of course, but that's what we're after!)  and decide for themselves if they're still in time to carry it out.

Together I think even though it sounds like handholding, these moves would make the blog less dizzying and a better learning experience, until it could be digested whole. But maybe you have a better simple system to suggest that is profitable and educational at the same time.

I offer these ideas/feedback because I think you're already doing a great job and are clearly committed do doing the best you can, and seem to be in a positon to pull such a thing off without too much drama. And I think the results could be awesome.

Cheers and good luck

Nick