12/05/2012 Example Trade

I ran into a lot of technical difficulties this morning with my MarketDelta charting computer.  Last week while recording the weekly DTG private member webinar, my charting computer crashed with the “blue screen of death”.  This was the first time I had seen a blue screen in Windows 7 64-bit.    The computer rebooted fine and I was able to continue recording the webinar, but that evening I did a full virus scan and found the computer was infected with the Alureon trojan virus.  The virus was consuming several gigabytes of memory and trying to send information to various websites.  The virus software (Microsoft Security Essentials) was able to detect the virus, but not permanently remove it.  The virus installs itself on the master boot record and re-installs it’s files if they are deleted.  I spent the weekend trying to remove the virus down to using DOS recovery commands to fix the master boot record and manual editing of the registry   By Monday evening, the virus was still not removed and my best option left was to reinstall Windows which I did last night.

So what does this have to do with today’s example trade?  Well, re-installing Windows means formatting the hard drive, forcing a re-installation of all the software which included MarketDelta.  I had carefully saved and exported all my important charts to aid in recreating my MD environment.  MD does not always restore in the same physical layout as it was saved, particularly if the program window size changes or the font sizes in Windows are setup differently.  Thus once MD is re-installed, most of the charts require manual adjustment to place the information where I’m used to seeing it.  I was scrambling with these adjustments as the market opened this morning which affected my trading and some of the comments that I posted on chat.  My footprint charts were not setup correctly and I was reading incorrect institutional volumes and making decisions based on them.  Anyways, I marked on today’s annotated chart below with how I traded today’s example trade.

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