was obviously a typo which brings up points.

    guys letting you know now, I'm probably going to get rid of those alarm prices.  The alarms are triggered by delayed data. I looked into real time data, the cost is ridiculous it's like $5000 a month!!! That's crazy town and not worth it for me to pay that. Hence why we use the delayed data. But here's the thing, because it's delayed we set the alarm prices BELOW resistance like 10 or 15 cents trying to account for the delayed data. However it's al for not and because delayed you can't rely on those. No one should rely on the pop out alarms. You must set alerts on your side. 

    Also it's extra work each night trying to input those prices for each one and change them all the time.  the typo on PYPL is an example, Steve and I after making these newsletters, recording for 30 min, then we have to go in and input all those alarm prices at the end, we are hurrying because we want to be done as we just spent hrs doing the newsletter, so easy to make typo

    thus I think it's in everyone's best interest that we kill those alarms. Again you'd still have the trade idea list like you see it now, just now the alarm prices and the pop outs.  

    remember pretty good sell off

    Posted by matt on 30th of Jul 2020 at 10:28 am

    remember pretty good sell off this morning but for now QQQ's down the least and AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, FB all report tonight. If they beat strongly well then maybe market goes up again, if they disappoint well maybe we start that correction into Aug.   

    Thanks for the explanation!  Eliminating

    Posted by steverobin on 30th of Jul 2020 at 10:11 am

    Thanks for the explanation!  Eliminating alarm prices is a good idea.

    since right now we are

    Posted by matt on 30th of Jul 2020 at 10:23 am

    since right now we are not emailing out real time buy and sell alerts the trade ideas should be considered that open ended trade ideas that can be traded in a variety of ways depending on your style. One can buy when price breaks through resistance, or buy early inside the pattern near a support, or a combination or whatever. The alarm prices being delayed by a good 20 min confuses people and that's also why many times 20 or 30 min after the market opens you see 10 alarms at once - because they all triggered on the open and the delayed data didn't catch up for 20 or 30 min.  Seeing an alarm price also causes people to focus on that I think vs actually looking at the chart and seeing a trigger themselves, which as I stated above can be a variety of triggers, not just one price

    the other thing to point

    Posted by matt on 30th of Jul 2020 at 09:56 am

    the other thing to point out we can only set alarm prices for longs at resistance, we can't prices for a support. And as we always say these are trade ideas, look for early triggers inside the pattern, all sorts of things. If I put an ascending triangle or coil, I don't want people to only look for longs at the break of the upper triangle, but also inside the pattern or near the lower trendline.  

    the alarms are also a constant source of confusion by any new members who think they are buy and sell real time alerts sent out by us vs just trade ideas with an alarm

    I agree on stopping the

    Posted by dillaketime on 30th of Jul 2020 at 10:23 am

    I agree on stopping the alarm prices. I don't use them either. I set my own alarms because I'm trading MY PLAN (hat tip: Steve).

    As we've stated ad naseum,

    Posted by steve on 30th of Jul 2020 at 10:28 am

    As we've stated ad naseum, the best thing to do is to set your OWN alarms on your quote system.  More importantly, have a plan and focus on what you plan to trade instead of jumping around too much. 

    Thanks for the explanation. I

    Posted by craigm on 30th of Jul 2020 at 09:55 am

    Thanks for the explanation. I don't have Stockcharts so I just redraw your lines and set alarms on ToS. Seems to work okay for me. I'm for anything that makes your jobs easier. 

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