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I am comfortable using a print log window to do just that in
my trading.
I couple the messages that are displayed in the printlog with wav.
files.
This spares me any annoying popups to place orders, writing on my
charts or staring at screens.
i.e.
At the completion of the first bar of the day, a wav file and a print to
the
printlog tell me "Good Morning" and the day of the week. This lets me
know that all is working properly at the open. At that point, it also
tells
me if there will be 10:00 reports or Fed announcements etc etc that the
program will take into consideration during the session and how it
intends
to deal with them and then prints during the session when it performs an
action based on those circumstances outside of the basic system code.
Some circumstances are programmable and some are retrieved from
input files that are usually updated at the beginning of the month.
At the point of entry or exit, a line is printed to the printlog
containing: signalname, price, and time.
The second line contains "Buy" or "Sell" and the # of contracts.
A siren goes off followed by a voice to tell me to go long or short,
followed by two phaser blasts if I am to reverse or
a single phaser blast for everything else.
The benefits of the printlog combined with the wav files is twofold.
If I am not in the mood for sound, I turn off my speakers and watch the
arrows and the printlog. With the wav files, if I step away from my
desk,
I not only know that something has taken place, I know what it was
and what to do when I step back.
Now if it could just tell me with a satisfactory degree of accuracy that
absolutely nothing worthwhile is going to happen today and that I can
go do something else for the day, I'd be content. I'm always working on
it. :-)
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