Effort/SMS

    Posted by tom on 18th of Aug 2011 at 09:07 am

    I (and Matt when he can) am going to make a more consistent effort to be around the SPY Community.  If you have any questions or need any clarity about anything regarding the system please feel free to post and I will try and address them.

    One bulletin I want to announce is we are receiving some feedback regarding T-mobile and a problem receiving SMS messages.  It seems they will deliver a majority and then drop for some reason.  We have worked with T-mobile and some members to try and resolve the issue but so far they cannot diagnose why and we show the message going through.  If you have T-mobile and our able to also have the email directed to your phone I might suggest that as a safeguard. 

    Status bar

    Posted by turps on 18th of Aug 2011 at 10:19 am

    Tom, would it be possible to add a status bar like on the GDX swing system page, it could include the price target for entry on days when the system is close to entry and a potential direction indicator.

    This might cut down on the questions regarding the potential for entry exit that some days seem to be the main topic for conjecture here.

    That's a thought but obviously

    Posted by tom on 18th of Aug 2011 at 11:00 am

    That's a thought but obviously the GDX status bar does not prognosticate trades and is only updated after a trade is taken. 

    If we have a view on a trade with concrete signals we send an alert.  If we have a view on a potential trade but no concrete signal then we might just post but not send an official alert until we do get a range.  So if someone is checking the website (Trading Community and Current Trade page) then even without an official alert you should get what you need.  Otherwise once there is the viable potential for a trade we sent all SPY members an alert which I think is even more valuable then a bar.

    I think that a lot of the questioning of potential trades comes from anxiety and nervousness.  Both of the trade and maybe of missing the signal.  I think the first one or two emails had some snags but since then I think the process of sending the alert has been efficient.  When Matt launched the system he stated an alert would be send I think he said that last 10-15 minutes of the day, maybe he said 30 I forget.  We are sending trade alerts sometimes as early as 11am EST so I really think our alert procedure is doing well.  We can always do better advising members of the bias and if the system is thinking of a trade but we also have to catch that scenario etc.  We reviewed a widget that would be in the top of the SPY Community but then started to think that might be too much and generally I think we have seen that I try and post a sticky with the current system status to help that scenario.  I am seeing that is not there now so I will add that - must have been removed at some point.

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