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		<title>Trade ZenFire From Your iPhone</title>
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MOBILE IS EVERYWHERE
Now, I don&#8217;t Trade on the iPhone. I think the term &#8216;fat finger error&#8217; would take on a whole new meaning if I traded from an iPhone.
There a few programs for trading on the iPhone. iSwim from thinkOrSwim, E*Trade Mobile Pro and of course the Interactive Brokers app.
Having access to my trading platform [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2010/02/09/trade-zenfire-from-your-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Taking The Ninja Trader 7  Beta Out For A Spin</title>
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If you haven&#8217;t noticed, NinjaTrader has a new version coming out in NinjaTrader 7 ( NT7). It has a lot of improvements over NinjaTrader 6.5 (NT6.5) as well as some changes that you need to make in your code.
FIRST IMPRESSION
My first impression was &#8220;Hey, this looks just like NinjaTrader 6.5&#8243;. It is true, it does. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/11/24/taking-the-ninja-trader-7-beta-out-for-a-spin/</link>
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		<title>Open Tick Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO  IS STILL DEAD.. AND SO IS OPENTICK
Yes, I have been MIA lately. But I did want to do an update on my previous blog post on OpenTick. So here is the latest news. Hat tip to Inside Market Data.
If you don&#8217;t know who Generalissimo Francisco Franco was, don&#8217;t worry,  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/10/20/open-tick-update/</link>
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		<title>Market If Touched / Limit If Touched Orders In Ninja Trader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 MIT/LIT ORDERS MIA IN NINJATRADER 
With any trading platform, there will always be ONE feature that you need that is not implemented. For me that is Limit If Touched orders with a negative offset in NinjaTrader. I was on a long trip recently and I finally had time to implement MIT/LIT for a strategy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/05/27/market-if-touched-limit-if-touched-orders-in-ninja-trader/</link>
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		<title>Book Review : Mean Markets And Lizard Brains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I usually read books to help me find trading and indicator ideas. This book doesn&#8217;t really address either of those points. This is more about the psychology of tradingÂ and &#8216;beahvorial finance&#8217;. Â It is more of a &#8216;Intro To Behavioral Finance&#8221; you might say.
Â I have talked about behavioral finance before here .
This book caught my eye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/05/12/book-review-mean-markets-and-lizard-brains/</link>
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		<title>Turtle Trading Strategy With Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
THE TURTLES
In 1983 &#38; 1984 Richard Dennis recruited  21 men and 2 women who both became known as the &#8220;turtles.&#8221; The program with the turtles ended in 1988, with many of the &#8216;turtles&#8217; have going on to successful careers as commodity trading advisors.
If you have not hard about the Turtles there is a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/05/04/turtle-trading-strategy-with-source/</link>
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		<title>Why TraderWerks ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TraderWerks. The first part, trader, we can all relate to. The second word , Werks is a German word that means factory.Stupid name at first, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
So now you have a clue to why I named this site TraderWerks.Â This post has been a long time in the making. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/04/27/why-traderwerks/</link>
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		<title>Free Indicator Of The Month : Timeline For The S&amp;P E-Mini (ES)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TIMELINES
This is a favorite &#8216;indicator&#8217; of mine. I often forget my rules on time parameters. Such as trading over lunch and not trading around 2:00 p.m..
Timelines are indicators the draw lines across the bottom of a screen to give you a visual indication of the time during the trading day. 
They can display many things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/04/20/free-indicator-of-the-month-timeline-for-the-sp-e-mini-es/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Think Like A Trader&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
THINK LIKE A TRADER
SomeÂ scientistsÂ decided to do a study on how do people trade &#8216;likeÂ a trader&#8217;, and do they perform better when Â people trade better when they &#8216;Think Like A Trader&#8221;.
This paper specifically takes a look at traders and  lossÂ aversion. If one &#8216;Thinks Like A Trader&#8221; will they be less risk averse and trade better. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/04/13/think-like-a-trader/</link>
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		<title>Three Bar Reversal ( 3BR ) Strategy With Free Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
3 Bar Reversal Pattern ( Strategy Wizard )
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This strategy is from an article Â by ThomasÂ BulkowskiÂ &#8221;Are Three-BarÂ Patterns Reliable For Stocks?&#8221; . It was in the Â January,2000 issue of Stocks&#38;Commodities magazine. As an aside, I want to mention, that there are a lot of things called &#8220;Three Bar Reversals&#8217;, but I am just looking at this particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/04/05/three-bar-reversal-3br-strategy-with-free-source/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Complete Guide to Futures Trading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REFCO&#8230;YOU REMEMBER THEM Â DON&#8217;T YOU ?
This book was originally published by a little outfit known as RefCo. My copy of this book is originally from the Refco Private Clients Group.
Refco was a pretty messed up company. They were the largest futures broker in Chicago in 2005. It went public in August 2005, had a crisis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/31/book-review-the-complete-guide-to-futures-trading/</link>
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		<title>The ONE Free Thing You Must Do Every Week On Your Trading Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VIRUSES SUCK
Damn computer viruses. You have to keep your trading system virus free, it is a matter of dollars and dollars.
A virus infected systems, quite frankly sucks. These viruses are written by kids /gangsters/spammers or other miscreants. They spend a lot of time to get your computer infected for a lot of reasons.Â SometimesÂ they infect your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/25/the-one-free-thing-you-must-do-every-week-on-your-trading-computer/</link>
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		<title>OpenTick .. Dead &amp; Buried</title>
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R.I.P. OpenTick
OpenTick was a inexpensiveÂ  financial data supplier. They had been around for about 5 years, and had an API you could use in your softwareÂ  to access their data. They had a lot of historical data for free and the data that was not free was very inexpensive.
API means Application Programming Interface. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/21/opentick-dead-buried/</link>
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		<title>Free Indicator Of The Month &#8211; TS Volatility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TRADESTATION VOLATILITY
When you convert an automated trading strategy from one system to another, there are a lot of things that will be Â &#8217;missing&#8217;. Such as a trading strategy from Tradestaion to NinjaTrader, you may not have some of the built in indicators that you had with the previous platform.
I have converted trading strategies from different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/18/free-indicator-of-the-month-ts-volatility/</link>
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		<title>Free Indicator Of The Month&#8230;Or Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
FREE INDICATOR OF THE MONTH
I have decided to release some of the indicators for NinjaTrader I have written when translating Easy Language strategies to Ninja Trader. So I will post them for download for a month, or until I replace it with another indicator. So I guess technically , it should be &#8220;Free Indicator Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/14/free-indicator-of-the-monthor-week/</link>
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		<title>ACD Revisited And Waiting For Godot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WAITING FOR NT 7
If you knew me, you would know I am a big ACD fan. We had a bunch of ACD indicators written for Ninja Trader, but had not released them. ( We released two as stand alone then pulled them back ). When we were looking at releasing them, NinjaTrader 7 was going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/07/acd-revisited-and-waiting-for-godot/</link>
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		<title>Four Things You MUST Know About Interactive Brokers Before You Trade Futures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking about using IB ( Interactive Brokers ) for trading your futures trading there are a few things to know so you won&#8217;t get screwed hurt.
If you are position trading or cross margining, these problems probably won&#8217;t make you lose to much sleep.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think IB has some great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/04/four-things-you-must-know-about-interactive-brokers-before-you-trade-futures/</link>
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		<title>Quantitative Trading &#8211;  Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REALLY SHORT REVIEW : GOOD BOOK FOR THE QUANT RETAIL TRADER
LONG REVIEW
I read a lot of books ( when I have the time ) and I came across this one and I was pleasantly surprised.Â I didn&#8217;t pick up THAT much from the book, but it is well worth the read. It codified a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/03/01/quantitative-trading-el-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Volume Ratio For Ninja Trader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  We just wrote Volume Ratio for Ninja Trader. This is a TradeStation indicator that was written for NinjaTrader. So take a look and enjoy. If you want this indicator before we post it for download, please drop us an email.
If you notice the data, yes, it is fake data. This indicator does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/02/25/volume-ratio-for-ninja-trader/</link>
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		<title>FÃ¼r Innenstaebe Ninja Trader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or I should say Innenstaebe For Ninja Trader.
Here is the download
Ninja Trader Innenstaebe.
Click import and point to the downloaded zip file.
If you have any question, please contact us.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2009/02/01/fur-innenstaebe-ninja-trader/</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HO, HO, HO
Â Â  Â  Â  Ok, here we are , nearing Christmas. You would not believe how much I need a vacation. I recovered from a hard drive failure and THEN all the craziness that goes on during the holidays. If you are not from a western country, let me tell you. Not much gets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/12/21/happy-holidays-2008/</link>
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		<title>Hard Drive Failed !!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HARD DRIVE FAILURE
Well, I am back from the dead. My laptop is anyway. About two weeks ago, I was going on a road trip. I was doing some buisness, seeing family and attending the 2008 FIA show in Chicago. So the night before I left , I backed up my laptop, loaded up my laptop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/11/23/hard-drive-failed/</link>
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		<title>Round2TickSize Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One very useful function in Ninja Trader isÂ Round2TickSize(). It rounds the price to theÂ nearestÂ tick of the instrument ( stock, futures, etc). I want to give a few examples , just to make it clear. Sometimes people wonder if Â Round2TickSize() works by truncating or does it round down. It does neither, it returns the next tick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/11/09/round2ticksize-function/</link>
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		<title>Ninja Trader Update : Now Includes Dynamic Momentum Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest update, NinjaTrader updated four indicators.

DMIndex
ParabolicSAR
Pivots
DMI

DMIndex
The most signifigant was the addition of the DMIndex.Â The Dynamic Momentum Index (DMIndex) as developed by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll and outlined in detail in their book The New Technical Trader. ItÂ is a variable term RSI which makes the RSI more responsive to short-term moves. The more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/10/31/ninja-trader-update-now-includes-dynamic-momentum-index/</link>
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		<title>Gap Fade Ninjascript Strategy : Five Profitable RIMM Trades In A Row in 10 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at this wild week in the market I decided to look at the old gap trade. The gap trade is fading a gap open, and  used to be a staple trade, but in the last few years it has not worked as well.. For example , if a stock opens up 2%, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/10/28/gap-fade-ninjascript-strategy-five-profitable-rimm-trades-in-a-row-in-10-days/</link>
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		<title>Volume Spike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is a pretty good indicator. It looks for exhaustion bars and users those for reversals. The theory is that an exhaustion bar will form on higher volume, then the price will reverse.
This indicator is not designed to be used by itself. If fact, if you use it alone for trading, I think &#8230;.. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/10/05/volume-spike/</link>
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		<title>The Big Rename&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Â Â  Â Well I am finally doing it. I am going to rename all the indicators from TraderWerks&#8230;. to TW&#8230;.. Â Personally , I like using the full long name better. It is clearer, but it is also long and annoying. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, the new indicators I have written , have used TW instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/09/30/the-big-rename/</link>
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		<title>Bollinger Bands, %b and BandWidth Indicators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had these laying around on my hard drive for a while. I have too many things sitting around on my computer sometimes. For strategy development, that are a much easier way to include Bollinger bands into a Ninja Trader Strategy.Â Well, I decided to release them in source.

%b, pronounced &#8216;percent b&#8217;, is derived from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/09/27/bollinger-bands-b-and-bandwidth-indicators/</link>
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		<title>IE , Sucks But Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we have finally gotten the site to work with IE. Sucks, but we are not really IE people around here. Sure, our site works with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Conq, Camino, etc&#8230;.. And now Internet Explorer.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/09/18/ie-sucks-but-works/</link>
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		<title>TraderWerks Keltner Channel Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Ninja Trader already has a Keltner Channel built in. This is our take on the indicator. Our is a little more custimizable. It allows you to select the price type, the ATR length, and all kinds of other goodness. We also let you select the type of moving average you would like to use. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/31/traderwerks-keltner-channel-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Acceleration Bands Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acceleration Bands are similar to Bollinger bands. They draw two bands around the moving average. Pretty simple , but still effective.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/26/acceleration-bands-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Narrow Range Market Analyzer Scan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Elitetrader ( yes I read it. You probably do to but do not want to admit it. ) A user was looking for a free stock screener to find stocks in a narrow range. I though it was a good idea, and since NinjaTrader is free, and you can get free end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/23/narrow-range-market-analyzer-scan/</link>
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		<title>IE, blah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are switching designers to the designer who did this blog for the main site. The IE bugs were just a problem. So &#8216;real soon now&#8217; we will be merging the designs. And hopefully getting rid of all these IE problems.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/20/ie-blah/</link>
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		<title>Show Symbol Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TECHNICALLY this is not an indicator. Yesterday, we posted an indicator that has symbol for AAPL drawn in the lower left hand corner.  This indicator helps when I look at the screens from across the room. 
Trading can be boring sometimes, so you may not be sitting directly in front of your monitor when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/19/show-symbol-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Retracement Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a retracement indicator, calculates the retracement of an indicator over a period of time. This indicator calculates two additional lines around the central retracement indicator. These are two Fibonacci lines aboue and beyond. 
Of course you can download this for free from 	TraderWerks
.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/18/retracement-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Triple Historical Volatility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an extension of the historical volatility indicator. This indicator shows the 30, 90 and 120 day historical volatility in a single pane. Here I show it for my favorite stock, AAPL. The shorter term volatility is rising toward the longer term volatility.
If you trade options, this is a good indicator to visualize how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/12/triple-historical-volatility/</link>
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		<title>Moving Average Envelope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Moving Average Envelope Indicator plots a percentage above and below a moving average. This was on the old blog and I am re-posting it here.
The plot was developed from a article at VIX &#38; more. After reading that article, I tried it out and it is much better than you would think. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/11/moving-average-envelope/</link>
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		<title>You Have No Idea&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[how much I hate Internet Explorer. The minute we fix one bug, we find another. So yes, we still have more work to do to fix the layout. Sorry about that. If you are using anything BUT IE, the site is fine.
Three things that never change, Death, Taxes and Microsoft suckage.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/06/you-have-no-idea/</link>
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		<title>TraderWerks QStick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This indicator is from the book, &#8220;The New Technical Trader&#8221;. TraderWerks has two versions of this , the standard one, and a smoothed one for comparison. If you take a look at this image , this is from APPL in 2006. I did not pick that time frame on purpose, I just noticed it. Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/05/traderwerks-qstick/</link>
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		<title>TraderWerks Money Flow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Money Flow indicator often warns of breakouts and provides useful trend confirmation.
Chaikin Money Flow is based on Chaikin&#8217;s theory n that buying support is  signaled by increased volume and frequent closes in the upper half of the daily range.
The TraderWerks version of this indicator tweaks the Chaikin Money Flow to make the indicator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/05/traderwerks-money-flow/</link>
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		<title>Arrghhhh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I was bitten by Microsoft. This website works in all the web browsers I use EXCEPT Microsoft Internet Explorer.Â 
Seriously, what is Microsoft doing? This web site will work in Opera, Kong, Â Safari, Firefox, and Camino.
But not Microsoft. Â Such is life. We will have someone look at the site shortly. But if you are using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/04/arrghhhh/</link>
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		<title>Coppock Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edwin Sedgwick Coppock developed the Coppock Indicator in 1962 for use on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Published in Barronâ€™s the same year, it was intended to generate buy signals only. The suggested signal was an upturn in the Coppock indicator from an extreme low.
Other interpretations are for a sell signal when there is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/02/coppock-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Market Emotion Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Market emotion is a cool little indicator. It gives you an idea of where the market is inrelation to the range of the current session. I had not seen on for NinjaTrader so I decided to write this one.
You can download this one from TraderWerks.com.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/02/market-emotion-indicator/</link>
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		<title>BLine Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Â 
Never heard of this indicator before. Someone named &#8216;Buffy&#8217; uses this over at DaCharts.com. I think with a name like Buffy, she must have been a pit trader.
So I am looking for anyone who has actually used BLine or can give me a reference. Which would be great.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/08/01/bline-indicator/</link>
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		<title>Opening Range Breakout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening range breakouts are the bread and butter trade for some traders. We did this version for the average trader as a the ACD version is a bit more complicated. This plot is the ES ( E-mini ) with a 15 min opening range breakout plotted.
You can download the Opening Range Breakout Indicator here.
[NOTE: This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/07/31/opening-range-breakout/</link>
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		<title>Take Off Your Shoes and Come Inside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new TraderWerks blog. The old blog , was &#8216;lost in translation&#8217; you might say. No one could seem to find it on the site for some reason, so we moved it here.
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		<link>http://blog.traderwerks.com/2008/07/31/take-off-your-shoes-and-come-inside/</link>
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