Originally Posted by ValeoFX

I was recently an invited guest at an Ophthalmological Congress and was intrigued by an article I picked up to read describing the "fovea centralis" and its role in the eye. So, like a good scholar, I went and looked it up at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea). What is most fascinating to me is the fact that I have always had a problem reading the scrolling news down at the bottom of the TV during News Times. Much to my surprise I now discovered why it is in fact NORMAL for us not to see that if we are focused on the news bulletin.

The article quotes from a group of researchers at Harvard University led by psychologist Barbara Flagg, who were expert in something called "eye movement photography". Eye movement research is based on the idea that the human eye is capable of focusing on only a very small area at one time - what is called a perceptual span. When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time. We jump from one of these chunks to another, pausing - or fixating on them long enough to make sense of each letter.

The reason we can focus clearly on only that much text is that most of the sensors in our eyes are clustered in a small region in the very middle of the retina, called the "fovea". (Wikipedia says................The foveal pit is not located exactly on the optical axis, but is displaced about 4 to 8 degrees temporal to it.) That is why we move our eyes when we read; we cannot pick up much information about the shape or the colour, or the structure of words unless we focus our fovea directly on them.

Is it surprising then that the people making TV-commercials are obsessed with eye tracking.

Long story short, we need to rearrange our screens in such a way that whatever is THE most important information to us, hits us straight in the eye.

Almost all eye movement research demonstrates, when it comes to TV, people tend to fixate on the centre of the screen.

Hence my moving the CCI to the very first window in my HOURLY chart as well as the M15 and M5. I need to see immediately what the CCI-5 is doing and I can assure you that it works. Ignore the RSIs sitting in window 1 on the H4 and H8 TFs. That I can explain in as much that it takes that much longer to occur and therefore I spent more time focusing on each and every indicator on the longer TFs.

See you in the next Post for details of the Hourly chart.

Originally Posted by forexmoments

Are you an Optometrist Valeo?

Originally Posted by ValeoFX

, No I am a full-time forex-trader, but my wife is an Ophthalmological consultant for a Pharmaceutical company and has to attend these Congresses. They are a wonderful group of people, I may like to add.