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Maybe this would be a good opportunity to reconsider the software you're using to house and retrieve the slides. So much outstanding image annotation software has been developed since Al has started this project and the database is growing so quickly that an alphabetically segmented approach seems not only antiquated but a hindrance to effective usage of this wonderful material. I bet a call to the membership base would surface a programmer with the requisite knowledge who would be excited about contributing ideas on this.
With the correct software, slide retrieval could be sliced and diced in so many informative ways and could utilize the notes typed on the slides, possibly without any need for re-entry of the existing annotations.
Just a quick Google search pulls up a link to 13 Best Image Annotation Tools of 2023 [Reviewed].
This article might be a start for deciding whether this is worth pursuing.
Hi Abir,
The Encyclopedia is not actually growing faster, as Al adds these slides every month and I issue a presentation on site to show new slides added each month. Also, every slide does have date albeit hidden, in form of 23/3/19 for today, for example. This info is on website page too.
Note that the daily slides issued are not put into website presentations until month end, so everything new is accessible up until a couple of weeks after month end. So you should be able to keep track Ok.
Or am I missing something?
Hi Stephen, sorry for late reply.
Yes, what you say is about right.
The first slide is what goes into the daily blog report and is a summary, albeit simplified a little, containing the main points form all other slides. This slide will not be put into "Daily Setups" presentations which have been frozen end Feb.
I will extend the 'summary + new E slides' for 2 weeks or so into following month, to give an overlap so you will not have to worry about having to catch them every day. So a rolling 6 weeks of slides.
Hope that is clear.
Agreed Stephen.
I have already suggested to Al we need to review/overhaul the Encyclopedia presentation. When first created, the image database I was hoping to use was just not up to it, requiring too much server resources and far too much manual work to simply add slides.
I will follow up. Fingers crossed.
Hi Richard,
I am a bit confused as I am probably among the few who is having a hard time grasping what changes are happening other than stopping of the daily setups.
Please refer to this where you wrote
In its place we will have the new slides that Al creates each day for the Encyclopedia. These slides will be in a new presentation - available to Encyclopedia members - that will be refreshed each month.
If I'm misinterpreting what this means, and the encyclopedia is getting updates as usual and nothing new is happening, then fine. I don't have any issues.
Although, I still think dating the slides(visible) would not be a terrible idea. Conceded, this does not add any value to the slides in the long term, it helps keep track of the updates in the short term. Maybe, a similar solution can be brainstormed out of this?
Thanks for your hard work.
I am not a subscriber of the encyclopaedia, but I have been considering paying for it.
With everyone confused with the proposed changes, it seems the best thing to do would be a video "user guide" covering the new changes. Or even a Zoom call that can be recorded for future buyers.
It was part of a weekend mailing list message some time ago. 80/20 in favor of seeing End of Day videos but plenty saying they would still like both!
One key confusion is that the Encyclopedia itself has not changed at all.
It is the Daily Setups chart where changes have been made, with adding daily Encyclopedia slides in its place. Currently still releasing the simplified setups chart for daily blog post. An increase in workload despite attempt to reduce same. 🙁
A video on "How to Use Encyclopedia" would be good sometime in future, but not needed to explain changes hopefully, but may come to that. 🙂
>> Abir: the encyclopedia is getting updates as usual and nothing new is happening, then fine. <<
Yes, that is exactly right. Nothing new on the Encyclopedia (E) itself.
>>Wesley: How is it that this post can go unanswered? It raises reasonable concerns about a change that impacts the entire community of traders who have purchased the encyclopedia.<<
Again, nothing new on E itself. Changes only affect the Daily Setups which Al has created now for near 4 years. A massive resource of extremely valuable slides - with no real expiry date given the cyclic nature of markets. Al Brooks, as well as all of us humans, cannot keep every project going ad infinitum. We are looking to new services.
I agree that the blue boxes are very helpful to me as a beginner. When I analyze the chart myself, my primary goal is to identify where Al would have put the blue box. It's very unfortunate to lose this simple but very valuable feature. It was not clear in the poll that voting for a video meant losing the blue boxes.
Agreed, it is very unfortunate. I was looking forward to analyzing blue box setups every day as I am allowed to purchase the enclyclopedia today. One thing that is helpful is replaying old days in NinjaTrader and then looking at the daily setups afterwards. However, I believe there market replay only allows you to download 3 months back?
Oh, I am subscribed to it, but rarely read it, I use it more like an alert to come to this site and read the blog 🙂
In future you might consider posting the poll on the site itself, there might be more people like me, although I will try to read those emails from now on.
Andreas, you can actually purchase many years of NinjaTrader market replay data from another source for a rather small fee. Do an internet search for "ninjatrader market replay data downloader" and you will see it.
Hello David,
Thank you. Can you send a link? I can't seem to find it.
Is there any chance we can go back to having Encyclopedia updates the old fashioned way?
Earlier we used to get the updates on the encyclopedia webpage/section at the start of a month for the previous month.
Why I am preferring the old method is because the slides were not grouped together as per days, but were grouped together as per the categories of patterns they fell into, they were grouped exactly as they would be added to the encyclopedia. I found that system easier to assimilate new examples of the patterns.
Also, the first slide (with all the patterns marked up) gets repeated, once on the blog post and once on the encyclopedia updates on the daily setups page. The old way it will only need to be on the blog post.
It might also lessen the confusion people are having for what all has changed. This new system of categorizing the encyclopedia is making people feel as if something has changed with the encyclopedia too.
I personally would prefer that we go back to having encyclopedia updates like we used to, and leaving the daily Set Ups page on the site as an archive of the daily setups for past 4 years.
It was part of a weekend mailing list message some time ago. 80/20 in favor of seeing End of Day videos but plenty saying they would still like both!