Superb stuff Adal, you've dicked all over my efforts. I've been collecting position data for nearly 2 years now, and it's been very useful.
As for the web crawling; great again. I tried to convince a very big search company (not Google obviously) to do the same thing, and they looked at me as if I was talking Latin. Now sent tracking systems are being sold to banks for millions. Ahhhh...
Your posts sound extremely interesting to me, but there ist a unanswered question which is : what ideas do you have of using this kind of information in the future though it goes a long way back?
I'd really love to hear your answer to this because i've hardly seen something that rare and interesting on the net, and for you to understand my excitement, it's because i've had adals idea since i started trading and i'm still thinking about developing a strategy which is simply based on acting against the common sentiment.
Yeah, retail pos has got its uses. There's a lot of assumptions written about it here on FF which are no help whatsoever, but if you're serious, you need to gather data, and turn it into some cold hard facts. Takes a while. Obviously simply running counter to the general flow isn't a winning strategy by itself, but it's along those lines.
Brad, cot's only really good for longer term trading so it's not for me.
