Disclaimer: None of this is financial advice. I have no idea what I'm doing. Please do your own research or you will certainly lose money. I'm not a statistician, data scientist, well-seasoned trader, or anything else that would qualify me to make statements such as the below with any weight behind them. Take them for the incoherent ramblings that they are.
TL;DR at the bottom for those not interested in the details.
This is a bit of a novel, sorry about that. It was mostly for getting my own thoughts organized, but if even one person reads the whole thing I will feel incredibly accomplished.

Background

For those of you not familiar, please see the various threads on this trading system here. I can't take credit for this system, all glory goes to ParallaxFX!
I wanted to see how effective this system was at H1 for a couple of reasons: 1) My current broker is TD Ameritrade - their Forex minimum is a mini lot, and I don't feel comfortable enough yet with the risk to trade mini lots on the higher timeframes(i.e. wider pip swings) that ParallaxFX's system uses, so I wanted to see if I could scale it down. 2) I'm fairly impatient, so I don't like to wait days and days with my capital tied up just to see if a trade is going to win or lose.
This does mean it requires more active attention since you are checking for setups once an hour instead of once a day or every 4-6 hours, but the upside is that you trade more often this way so you end up winning or losing faster and moving onto the next trade. Spread does eat more of the trade this way, but I'll cover this in my data below - it ends up not being a problem.
I looked at data from 6/11 to 7/3 on all pairs with a reasonable spread(pairs listed at bottom above the TL;DR). So this represents about 3-4 weeks' worth of trading. I used mark(mid) price charts. Spreadsheet link is below for anyone that's interested.

System Details

I'm pretty much using ParallaxFX's system textbook, but since there are a few options in his writeups, I'll include all the discretionary points here:

I'm using the stop entry version - so I wait for the price to trade beyond the confirmation candle(in the direction of my trade) before entering. I don't have any data to support this decision, but I've always preferred this method over retracement-limit entries. Maybe I just like the feeling of a higher winrate even though there can be greater R:R using a limit entry. Variety is the spice of life.
I put my stop loss right at the opposite edge of the confirmation candle. NOT at the edge of the 2-candle pattern that makes up the system. I'll get into this more below - not enough trades are saved to justify the wider stops. (Wider stop means less $ per pip won, assuming you still only risk 1%).
All my profit/loss statistics are based on a 1% risk per trade. Because 1 is real easy to multiply.
There are definitely some questionable trades in here, but I tried to make it as mechanical as possible for evaluation purposes. They do fit the definitions of the system, which is why I included them. You could probably improve the winrate by being more discretionary about your trades by looking at support/resistance or other techniques.
I didn't use MBB much for either entering trades, or as support/resistance indicators. Again, trying to be pretty mechanical here just for data collection purposes. Plus, we all make bad trading decisions now and then, so let's call it even.
As stated in the title, this is for H1 only. These results may very well not play out for other time frames - who knows, it may not even work on H1 starting this Monday. Forex is an unpredictable place.
I collected data to show efficacy of taking profit at three different levels: -61.8%, -100% and -161.8% fib levels described in the system using the passive trade management method(set it and forget it). I'll have more below about moving up stops and taking off portions of a position.

And now for the fun. Results!

Total Trades: 241
Raw Winrates:
- TP at -61.8%: 177 out of 241: 73.44%
- TP at -100%: 156 out of 241: 64.73%
- TP at -161.8%: 121 out of 241: 50.20%
Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account):
- TP at -61.8%: 5.22%
- TP at -100%: 23.55%
- TP at -161.8%: 29.14%

As you can see, a higher target ended up with higher profit despite a much lower winrate. This is partially just how things work out with profit targets in general, but there's an additional point to consider in our case: the spread. Since we are trading on a lower timeframe, there is less overall price movement and thus the spread takes up a much larger percentage of the trade than it would if you were trading H4, Daily or Weekly charts. You can see exactly how much it accounts for each trade in my spreadsheet if you're interested. TDA does not have the best spreads, so you could probably improve these results with another broker.
EDIT: I grabbed typical spreads from other brokers, and turns out while TDA is pretty competitive on majors, their minors/crosses are awful! IG beats them by 20-40% and Oanda beats them 30-60%! Using IG spreads for calculations increased profits considerably (another 5% on top) and Oanda spreads increased profits massively (another 15%!). Definitely going to be considering another broker than TDA for this strategy. Plus that'll allow me to trade micro-lots, so I can be more granular(and thus accurate) with my position sizing and compounding.

A Note on Spread

As you can see in the data, there were scenarios where the spread was 80% of the overall size of the trade(the size of the confirmation candle that you draw your fibonacci retracements over), which would obviously cut heavily into your profits.
Removing any trades where the spread is more than 50% of the trade width improved profits slightly without removing many trades, but this is almost certainly just coincidence on a small sample size. Going below 40% and even down to 30% starts to cut out a lot of trades for the less-common pairs, but doesn't actually change overall profits at all(~1% either way).
However, digging all the way down to 25% starts to really make some movement. Profit at the -161.8% TP level jumps up to 37.94% if you filter out anything with a spread that is more than 25% of the trade width! And this even keeps the sample size fairly large at 187 total trades.
You can get your profits all the way up to 48.43% at the -161.8% TP level if you filter all the way down to only trades where spread is less than 15% of the trade width, however your sample size gets much smaller at that point(108 trades) so I'm not sure I would trust that as being accurate in the long term.
Overall based on this data, I'm going to only take trades where the spread is less than 25% of the trade width. This may bias my trades more towards the majors, which would mean a lot more correlated trades as well(more on correlation below), but I think it is a reasonable precaution regardless.

Time of Day

Time of day had an interesting effect on trades. In a totally predictable fashion, a vast majority of setups occurred during the London and New York sessions: 5am-12pm Eastern. However, there was one outlier where there were many setups on the 11PM bar - and the winrate was about the same as the big hours in the London session. No idea why this hour in particular - anyone have any insight? That's smack in the middle of the Tokyo/Sydney overlap, not at the open or close of either.
On many of the hour slices I have a feeling I'm just dealing with small number statistics here since I didn't have a lot of data when breaking it down by individual hours. But here it is anyway - for all TP levels, these three things showed up(all in Eastern time):

7pm-4am: Fewer setups, but winrate high.
5am-6am: Lots of setups, but but winrate low.
12pm-3pm Medium number of setups, but winrate low.

I don't have any reason to think these timeframes would maintain this behavior over the long term. They're almost certainly meaningless. EDIT: When you de-dup highly correlated trades, the number of trades in these timeframes really drops, so from this data there is no reason to think these timeframes would be any different than any others in terms of winrate.
That being said, these time frames work out for me pretty well because I typically sleep 12am-7am Eastern time. So I automatically avoid the 5am-6am timeframe, and I'm awake for the majority of this system's setups.

Moving stops up to breakeven

This section goes against everything I know and have ever heard about trade management. Please someone find something wrong with my data. I'd love for someone to check my formulas, but I realize that's a pretty insane time commitment to ask of a bunch of strangers.
Anyways. What I found was that for these trades moving stops up...basically at all...actually reduced the overall profitability.
One of the data points I collected while charting was where the price retraced back to after hitting a certain milestone. i.e. once the price hit the -61.8% profit level, how far back did it retrace before hitting the -100% profit level(if at all)? And same goes for the -100% profit level - how far back did it retrace before hitting the -161.8% profit level(if at all)?
Well, some complex excel formulas later and here's what the results appear to be. Emphasis on appears because I honestly don't believe it. I must have done something wrong here, but I've gone over it a hundred times and I can't find anything out of place.

Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%
- Winrate: 46.4%
- Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 5.36%
Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%
- Winrate: 65.97%
- Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): -1.01% (yes, a net loss)

Now, you might think exactly what I did when looking at these numbers: oof, the spread killed us there right? Because even when you move your SL to 0%, you still end up paying the spread, so it's not truly "breakeven". And because we are trading on a lower timeframe, the spread can be pretty hefty right?
Well even when I manually modified the data so that the spread wasn't subtracted(i.e. "Breakeven" was truly +/- 0), things don't look a whole lot better, and still way worse than the passive trade management method of leaving your stops in place and letting it run. And that isn't even a realistic scenario because to adjust out the spread you'd have to move your stoploss inside the candle edge by at least the spread amount, meaning it would almost certainly be triggered more often than in the data I collected(which was purely based on the fib levels and mark price). Regardless, here are the numbers for that scenario:

Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%
- Winrate(breakeven doesn't count as a win): 46.4%
- Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 17.97%
Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%
- Winrate(breakeven doesn't count as a win): 65.97%
- Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 11.60%

From a literal standpoint, what I see behind this behavior is that 44 of the 69 breakeven trades(65%!) ended up being profitable to -100% after retracing deeply(but not to the original SL level), which greatly helped offset the purely losing trades better than the partial profit taken at -61.8%. And 36 went all the way back to -161.8% after a deep retracement without hitting the original SL. Anyone have any insight into this? Is this a problem with just not enough data? It seems like enough trades that a pattern should emerge, but again I'm no expert.
I also briefly looked at moving stops to other lower levels (78.6%, 61.8%, 50%, 38.2%, 23.6%), but that didn't improve things any. No hard data to share as I only took a quick look - and I still might have done something wrong overall.
The data is there to infer other strategies if anyone would like to dig in deep(more explanation on the spreadsheet below). I didn't do other combinations because the formulas got pretty complicated and I had already answered all the questions I was looking to answer.

2-Candle vs Confirmation Candle Stops

Another interesting point is that the original system has the SL level(for stop entries) just at the outer edge of the 2-candle pattern that makes up the system. Out of pure laziness, I set up my stops just based on the confirmation candle. And as it turns out, that is much a much better way to go about it.
Of the 60 purely losing trades, only 9 of them(15%) would go on to be winners with stops on the 2-candle formation. Certainly not enough to justify the extra loss and/or reduced profits you are exposing yourself to in every single other trade by setting a wider SL.
Oddly, in every single scenario where the wider stop did save the trade, it ended up going all the way to the -161.8% profit level. Still, not nearly worth it.

Correlated Trades

As I've said many times now, I'm really not qualified to be doing an analysis like this. This section in particular.
Looking at shared currency among the pairs traded, 74 of the trades are correlated. Quite a large group, but it makes sense considering the sort of moves we're looking for with this system.
This means you are opening yourself up to more risk if you were to trade on every signal since you are technically trading with the same underlying sentiment on each different pair. For example, GBP/USD and AUD/USD moving together almost certainly means it's due to USD moving both pairs, rather than GBP and AUD both moving the same size and direction coincidentally at the same time. So if you were to trade both signals, you would very likely win or lose both trades - meaning you are actually risking double what you'd normally risk(unless you halve both positions which can be a good option, and is discussed in ParallaxFX's posts and in various other places that go over pair correlation. I won't go into detail about those strategies here).
Interestingly though, 17 of those apparently correlated trades ended up with different wins/losses.
Also, looking only at trades that were correlated, winrate is 83%/70%/55% (for the three TP levels).
Does this give some indication that the same signal on multiple pairs means the signal is stronger? That there's some strong underlying sentiment driving it? Or is it just a matter of too small a sample size? The winrate isn't really much higher than the overall winrates, so that makes me doubt it is statistically significant.
One more funny tidbit: EUCAD netted the lowest overall winrate: 30% to even the -61.8% TP level on 10 trades. Seems like that is just a coincidence and not enough data, but dang that's a sucky losing streak.
EDIT: WOW I spent some time removing correlated trades manually and it changed the results quite a bit. Some thoughts on this below the results. These numbers also include the other "What I will trade" filters. I added a new worksheet to my data to show what I ended up picking.

Total Trades: 75
Raw Winrates:
- TP at -61.8%: 84.00%
- TP at -100%: 73.33%
- TP at -161.8%: 60.00%
- Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%: 53.33%
- Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%: 53.33% (yes, oddly the exact same winrate. but different trades/profits)
Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account):
- TP at -61.8%: 18.13%
- TP at -100%: 26.20%
- TP at -161.8%: 34.01%
- Moving SL up to 0% when the price hits -61.8%, TP at -100%: 19.20%
- Taking half position off at -61.8%, moving SL up to 0%, TP remaining half at -100%: 17.29%

To do this, I removed correlated trades - typically by choosing those whose spread had a lower % of the trade width since that's objective and something I can see ahead of time. Obviously I'd like to only keep the winning trades, but I won't know that during the trade. This did reduce the overall sample size down to a level that I wouldn't otherwise consider to be big enough, but since the results are generally consistent with the overall dataset, I'm not going to worry about it too much.
I may also use more discretionary methods(support/resistance, quality of indecision/confirmation candles, news/sentiment for the pairs involved, etc) to filter out correlated trades in the future. But as I've said before I'm going for a pretty mechanical system.
This brought the 3 TP levels and even the breakeven strategies much closer together in overall profit. It muted the profit from the high R:R strategies and boosted the profit from the low R:R strategies. This tells me pair correlation was skewing my data quite a bit, so I'm glad I dug in a little deeper. Fortunately my original conclusion to use the -161.8 TP level with static stops is still the winner by a good bit, so it doesn't end up changing my actions.
There were a few times where MANY (6-8) correlated pairs all came up at the same time, so it'd be a crapshoot to an extent. And the data showed this - often then won/lost together, but sometimes they did not. As an arbitrary rule, the more correlations, the more trades I did end up taking(and thus risking). For example if there were 3-5 correlations, I might take the 2 "best" trades given my criteria above. 5+ setups and I might take the best 3 trades, even if the pairs are somewhat correlated.
I have no true data to back this up, but to illustrate using one example: if AUD/JPY, AUD/USD, CAD/JPY, USD/CAD all set up at the same time (as they did, along with a few other pairs on 6/19/20 9:00 AM), can you really say that those are all the same underlying movement? There are correlations between the different correlations, and trying to filter for that seems rough. Although maybe this is a known thing, I'm still pretty green to Forex - someone please enlighten me if so! I might have to look into this more statistically, but it would be pretty complex to analyze quantitatively, so for now I'm going with my gut and just taking a few of the "best" trades out of the handful.
Overall, I'm really glad I went further on this. The boosting of the B/E strategies makes me trust my calculations on those more since they aren't so far from the passive management like they were with the raw data, and that really had me wondering what I did wrong.

What I will trade

Putting all this together, I am going to attempt to trade the following(demo for a bit to make sure I have the hang of it, then for keeps):

"System Details" I described above.
TP at -161.8%
Static SL at opposite side of confirmation candle - I won't move stops up to breakeven.
Trade only 7am-11am and 4pm-11pm signals.
Nothing where spread is more than 25% of trade width.

Looking at the data for these rules, test results are:

Winrate: 58.19%
Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 47.43%

I'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes!

Other Technical Details

ATR is only slightly elevated in this date range from historical levels, so this should fairly closely represent reality even after the COVID volatility leaves the scalpers sad and alone.
The sample size is much too small for anything really meaningful when you slice by hour or pair. I wasn't particularly looking to test a specific pair here - just the system overall as if you were going to trade it on all pairs with a reasonable spread.

Raw Data

Here's the spreadsheet for anyone that'd like it. (EDIT: Updated some of the setups from the last few days that have fully played out now. I also noticed a few typos, but nothing major that would change the overall outcomes. Regardless, I am currently reviewing every trade to ensure they are accurate.UPDATE: Finally all done. Very few corrections, no change to results.)
I have some explanatory notes below to help everyone else understand the spiraled labyrinth of a mind that put the spreadsheet together.

I'm on the East Coast in the US, so the timestamps are Eastern time.
Time stamp is from the confirmation candle, not the indecision candle. So 7am would mean the indecision candle was 6:00-6:59 and the confirmation candle is 7:00-7:59 and you'd put in your order at 8:00.
I found a couple AM/PM typos as I was reviewing the data, so let me know if a trade doesn't make sense and I'll correct it.

Insanely detailed spreadsheet notes

For you real nerds out there. Here's an explanation of what each column means:

Pair - duh
Date/Time - Eastern time, confirmation candle as stated above
Win to -61.8%? - whether the trade made it to the -61.8% TP level before it hit the original SL.
Win to -100%? - whether the trade made it to the -100% TP level before it hit the original SL.
Win to -161.8%? - whether the trade made it to the -161.8% TP level before it hit the original SL.
Retracement level between -61.8% and -100% - how deep the price retraced after hitting -61.8%, but before hitting -100%. Be careful to look for the negative signs, it's easy to mix them up. Using the fib% levels defined in ParallaxFX's original thread. A plain hyphen "-" means it did not retrace, but rather went straight through -61.8% to -100%. Positive 100 means it hit the original SL.
Retracement level between -100% and -161.8% - how deep the price retraced after hitting -100%, but before hitting -161.8%. Be careful to look for the negative signs, it's easy to mix them up. Using the fib% levels defined in ParallaxFX's original thread. A plain hyphen "-" means it did not retrace, but rather went straight through -100% to -161.8%. Positive 100 means it hit the original SL.
Trade Width(Pips) - the size of the confirmation candle, and thus the "width" of your trade on which to determine position size, draw fib levels, etc.
Loser saved by 2 candle stop? - for all losing trades, whether or not the 2-candle stop loss would have saved the trade and how far it ended up getting if so. "No" means it didn't save it, N/A means it wasn't a losing trade so it's not relevant.
Spread(ThinkorSwim) - these are typical spreads for these pairs on ToS.
Spread % of Width - How big is the spread compared to the trade width? Not used in any calculations, but interesting nonetheless.
True Risk(Trade Width + Spread) - I set my SL at the opposite side of the confirmation candle knowing that I'm actually exposing myself to slightly more risk because of the spread(stop order = market order when submitted, so you pay the spread). So this tells you how many pips you are actually risking despite the Trade Width. I prefer this over setting the stop inside from the edge of the candle because some pairs have a wide spread that would mess with the system overall. But also many, many of these trades retraced very nearly to the edge of the confirmation candle, before ending up nicely profitable. If you keep your risk per trade at 1%, you're talking a true risk of, at most, 1.25% (in worst-case scenarios with the spread being 25% of the trade width as I am going with above).
Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -61.8% - not going to go into huge detail, see the spreadsheet for calculations if you want. But, in a nutshell, if the trade was a win to 61.8%, it returns a positive # based on 61.8% of the trade width, minus the spread. Otherwise, it returns the True Risk as a negative. Both normalized to the 1% risk you started with.
Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -100% - same as the last, but 100% of Trade Width.
Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -161.8% - same as the last, but 161.8% of Trade Width.
Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread TP -100%, and move SL to breakeven at 61.8% - uses the retracement level columns to calculate profit/loss the same as the last few columns, but assuming you moved SL to 0% fib level after price hit -61.8%. Then full TP at 100%.
Win or Loss in %(1% risk) including spread take off half of position at -61.8%, move SL to breakeven, TP 100% - uses the retracement level columns to calculate profit/loss the same as the last few columns, but assuming you took of half the position and moved SL to 0% fib level after price hit -61.8%. Then TP the remaining half at 100%.
Overall Growth(-161.8% TP, 1% Risk) - pretty straightforward. Assuming you risked 1% on each trade, what the overall growth level would be chronologically(spreadsheet is sorted by date).

Pairs

AUD/CAD
AUD/CHF
AUD/JPY
AUD/NZD
AUD/USD
CAD/CHF
CAD/JPY
CHF/JPY
EUAUD
EUCAD
EUCHF
EUGBP
EUJPY
EUNZD
EUUSD
GBP/AUD
GBP/CAD
GBP/CHF
GBP/JPY
GBP/NZD
GBP/USD
NZD/CAD
NZD/CHF
NZD/JPY
NZD/USD
USD/CAD
USD/CHF
USD/JPY

TL;DR

Based on the reasonable rules I discovered in this backtest:

Date range: 6/11-7/3
Winrate: 58.19%
Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 47.43%

Demo Trading Results

Since this post, I started demo trading this system assuming a 5k capital base and risking ~1% per trade. I've added the details to my spreadsheet for anyone interested. The results are pretty similar to the backtest when you consider real-life conditions/timing are a bit different. I missed some trades due to life(work, out of the house, etc), so that brought my total # of trades and thus overall profit down, but the winrate is nearly identical. I also closed a few trades early due to various reasons(not liking the price action, seeing support/resistance emerge, etc).
A quick note is that TD's paper trade system fills at the mid price for both stop and limit orders, so I had to subtract the spread from the raw trade values to get the true profit/loss amount for each trade.
I'm heading out of town next week, then after that it'll be time to take this sucker live!

86 Trades
- Date range: 7/9-7/30
- Winrate: 52.32%
- Adjusted Proft % (takes spread into account): 20.73%
  - Starting Balance: $5,000
  - Ending Balance: $6,036.51

Live Trading Results

I started live-trading this system on 8/10, and almost immediately had a string of losses much longer than either my backtest or demo period. Murphy's law huh? Anyways, that has me spooked so I'm doing a longer backtest before I start risking more real money. It's going to take me a little while due to the volume of trades, but I'll likely make a new post once I feel comfortable with that and start live trading again.

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Chance Me: CS Major

Reposting because I didn't get input last time.
Demographics: Indian. Male. From ProspeFrisco Texas. Middle/Upper class area. I would say my high school is very competitive.
Intended Major(s): Computer Science
ACT/SAT/SAT II: SAT: Have not taken a real test. I have taken three practice test all resulted 1440+. Prepping for 1500+, but consider my score to be a flat 1400 for now.
UW GPA and Rank: UW: 3.981 Rank: 12/979
Coursework:
Freshmen Year:
- Honors French 1 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- HonoGT Geometry (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors Computer Science 1
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- AP Human (Highest Level that year available to me ) (4)
- Honors English 1 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Outdoor Education (Required)
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- Honors English 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
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- AP Computer Science A (Highest Level that year available to me ) (5)
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- AP English 3 (Highest Level that year available to me )
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- Honors Computer Science 3 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors Computer Science 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP English 4 (Highest Level that year available to me )
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- Still Deciding but not AP for sure.
Awards:
- Adobe Certified Associate - Visual Design using Adobe Photoshop CC2015
- Aloha Math Competition Certificate.
- UIL Math Competition Certificate.
- Multiple Student of the month award
Extracurriculars:

I am an intern at Visual Technologies LLC. I have helped in 4 projects regarding computer science for outside companies. This is one of my biggest achievements as a real company was willing to work with me and we ended up doing 4 projects together helping me grow every second of me working with them. After two successful projects with them, I was given some responsibilities such as following up with clients and other things. This gave me a sense of accomplishment because this would mean that they saw qualities in me that they would look for in a “normal aged” programmeconsultant.
2020 - I have worked for Cutco for about 3 months in which I have learned many skills for marketing. I have been promoted and over $3000 in sales. Other details mentioned earlier.
2019-2020- For UIL math we program our calculators to make tests easier for us. Last year I was one of the top coders for UIL math right after my seniors. I made programs that were complex. Although I didn't create many programs, I made programs that other programs were not able to create the year before because they were termed as “too hard”. Me being able to code those programs gave me the stance as a well-known programmer for UIL Math - an achievement in itself.
2016 - 2021 has offered free tutoring to many students who strive to be better but cannot afford fees. I have given at least 80 hours of free tutoring (not for school)
2020 - I have also worked for Ambit and have managed a successful team of over 50 members as I am a regional consultant for the company. I am in the top 10% of the company according to my boss, but I don't know whether this is true or not. I can certainly say that more than half of the people working do not make it to the level I am at. This company is an electricity company, and I have capitalized on selling our service to apartment complexes. I have also helped many high schoolers needing a job to find success in this business.
2020- I volunteered to make a system for the school called “Corona Tutors”. This is a platform where students can anonymously ask questions and receive answers from other students who want service hours. This fixes many problems: this eases the extreme dependence of teachers being online 24/7, this makes sure that students are getting their questions answered, this also allows students who want to help society. This is an official Prosper resource on their webpage which students can use at their will.
2017-2020- I have been a volunteer at ICNA Relief committed about 2 hours each week, and puts me right over 300 hours of community service. We as a group have made a rationing system where we try to fairly distribute goods and other goods as per people's needs. We help with anything from getting food to getting families a laptop for their kid's education.
My love for business goes very far. In 7th grade, fidget spinners were very popular and amazon took 3 months to ship them. This was perfect for a mini business, so I bought a fidget spinner directly through the supplier (AliExpress) and got my shipment. Not only did I retail them I also wholesale them in the mall to any store that was allowed to sell them. I came profitable from this business, but it was not the money that made this great, it was the contact I got through this business. - 2016
2020 - I resold brand new bikes with a high markup. One day scrolling through Facebook marketplace I realized that some bikes were being sold for almost 2x their price at Walmart. (During COVID) I simply contacted my contacts and was able to get about 200-250 brand new bikes. Since this was a very big investment I had five partners with me, and we marked them up according to market price a month later (150% return on investment)
2020 - When school ended, I started to get a lot of Forex trading ads, so I chose to take a look into what it was. Forex trading is a currency exchange and is highly risky. When I started to learn about it I started to see that there were groups called “signal groups”. These groups told you when to trade what and claimed that they have a 99% accuracy on their trades being profitable. Instead of trading, I chose to get in contact with famous traders and offer them a lucrative cut for simply sending a message in a group chat about what they are trading. For one month I tested the service and then put it into action for the public. The program kept working until all traders were able to work and then it was shut off making sure that more one was a loss.
2020 I have written a book/report that I have published it on Amazon. This report took me 200+ hours to make. As we learn in school, there is a rise in global warming, and it is our job to find alternative ways of fuel and stop the rise in global warming. I took an already done research - well in parts in college language- and made it into a more understandable report considering almost every aspect of the situation. I covered everything from the experimental design to how we can use the waste product in everyday life to how we can scale this project to how even a high schooler can make a difference by simply taking initiative and presenting this idea to their school. This report allowed me to take complex language and make it into an everyday language report. I showed my report to many people in the community and it was very satisfying to hear from their parents when they said “my son is going to present this idea to his school because they mostly have a lot of oil”. The report is about converting waste cooking oil to biodiesel.
2015 - 2020 - I have helped my mom in her business called “BLANK (don't want to say) Designs Collection”. Simply by watching her sell and trying it myself I acquired skills that I use to this day not only for business but simply for communicating. Currently, I am a social media and online sales handler for the company.
2018 - 2020 - I have been a part of Mu Alpha Theta for two year tutoring students for Math. Last year I was one of the top tutors for Mrs.Wood for algebra 2. I went there every time I did have an eagle time activity.
2020 - I recently joined the Science Honor society; we have helped the science fair in their activities.

Essays/LORs:
Essays, I have not started.
Letter of Rec: I have three incoming from my teachers. English/CounseloComputer Science/ Math (waiting for response)
Schools:
- MIT,
- Brown University
- Caltech
- Carnegie Mellon
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Georgia Institute
- Hamilton
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Rice University
- Stanford
- UMich
- UT Austin
- UT Dallas
- Texas A&M
- UC Berkley

Forex trader looking to start trading Crytpo as well (help with brokers and lot sizes?)

What are my chances?

Demographics: Indian. Male. From ProspeFrisco Texas. Middle/Upper class area. I would say my high school is very competitive.
Intended Major(s): Computer Science
ACT/SAT/SAT II: SAT: Have not taken a real test. I have taken three practice test all resulted 1440+. Prepping for 1500+, but consider my score to be a flat 1400 for now.
UW GPA and Rank: UW: 3.981 Rank: 12/979
Coursework:
Freshmen Year:
- Honors French 1 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- HonoGT Geometry (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors Computer Science 1
- Honors Biology (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Human (Highest Level that year available to me ) (4)
- Honors English 1 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Outdoor Education (Required)
- Digital Art and Animation (Required)
Sophomore Year:
- Honors English 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors French 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Computer Science A (Highest Level that year available to me ) (5)
- AP Computer Science Principles (Highest Level that year available to me ) (4)
- AP World History (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Biology (Highest Level that year available to me ) (3) <-- Not sending this score
- Honors Chemistry (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors Algebra 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Academic Level Architecture (Highest Level that year available to me )
Junior Year:
- AP English 3 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Independent Studies in Video Games (AP Level but not AP) (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors UIL Math Prep
- Ap Physics 1 (Highest Level that year available to me ) (5)
- Academic Level US History
- AP Chemistry (Highest Level that year available to me ) (4)
- AP Environmental (Highest Level that year available to me ) (5)
- Honors Pre-Cal (Highest Level that year available to me )
Senior Year (will take upcoming year):
- Honors Computer Science 3 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Honors Computer Science 2 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP English 4 (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Gov/Econ (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Physics C (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Calc BC (Highest Level that year available to me )
- AP Stats (Highest Level that year available to me )
- Still Deciding but not AP for sure.

Awards:
- Adobe Certified Associate - Visual Design using Adobe Photoshop CC2015
- Aloha Math Competition Certificate.
- UIL Math Competition Certificate.
- Multiple Student of the month award
Extracurriculars:

I am an intern at Visual Technologies LLC. I have helped in 4 projects regarding computer science for outside companies. This is one of my biggest achievements as a real company was willing to work with me and we ended up doing 4 projects together helping me grow every second of me working with them. After two successful projects with them, I was given some responsibilities such as following up with clients and other things. This gave me a sense of accomplishment because this would mean that they saw qualities in me that they would look for in a “normal aged” programmeconsultant.
2020 - I have worked for Cutco for about 3 months in which I have learned many skills for marketing. I have been promoted and over $3000 in sales. Other details mentioned earlier.
2019-2020- For UIL math we program our calculators to make tests easier for us. Last year I was one of the top coders for UIL math right after my seniors. I made programs that were complex. Although I didn't create many programs, I made programs that other programs were not able to create the year before because they were termed as “too hard”. Me being able to code those programs gave me the stance as a well-known programmer for UIL Math - an achievement in itself.
2016 - 2021 has offered free tutoring to many students who strive to be better but cannot afford fees. I have given at least 80 hours of free tutoring (not for school)
2020 - I have also worked for Ambit and have managed a successful team of over 50 members as I am a regional consultant for the company. I am in the top 10% of the company according to my boss, but I don't know whether this is true or not. I can certainly say that more than half of the people working do not make it to the level I am at. This company is an electricity company, and I have capitalized on selling our service to apartment complexes. I have also helped many high schoolers needing a job to find success in this business.
2020- I volunteered to make a system for the school called “Corona Tutors”. This is a platform where students can anonymously ask questions and receive answers from other students who want service hours. This fixes many problems: this eases the extreme dependence of teachers being online 24/7, this makes sure that students are getting their questions answered, this also allows students who want to help society. This is an official Prosper resource on their webpage which students can use at their will.
2017-2020- I have been a volunteer at ICNA Relief committed about 2 hours each week, and puts me right over 300 hours of community service. We as a group have made a rationing system where we try to fairly distribute goods and other goods as per people's needs. We help with anything from getting food to getting families a laptop for their kid's education.
My love for business goes very far. In 7th grade, fidget spinners were very popular and amazon took 3 months to ship them. This was perfect for a mini business, so I bought a fidget spinner directly through the supplier (AliExpress) and got my shipment. Not only did I retail them I also wholesale them in the mall to any store that was allowed to sell them. I came profitable from this business, but it was not the money that made this great, it was the contact I got through this business. - 2016
2020 - I resold brand new bikes with a high markup. One day scrolling through Facebook marketplace I realized that some bikes were being sold for almost 2x their price at Walmart. (During COVID) I simply contacted my contacts and was able to get about 200-250 brand new bikes. Since this was a very big investment I had five partners with me, and we marked them up according to market price a month later (150% return on investment)
2020 - When school ended, I started to get a lot of Forex trading ads, so I chose to take a look into what it was. Forex trading is a currency exchange and is highly risky. When I started to learn about it I started to see that there were groups called “signal groups”. These groups told you when to trade what and claimed that they have a 99% accuracy on their trades being profitable. Instead of trading, I chose to get in contact with famous traders and offer them a lucrative cut for simply sending a message in a group chat about what they are trading. For one month I tested the service and then put it into action for the public. The program kept working until all traders were able to work and then it was shut off making sure that more one was a loss.
2020 I have written a book/report that I have published it on Amazon. This report took me 200+ hours to make. As we learn in school, there is a rise in global warming, and it is our job to find alternative ways of fuel and stop the rise in global warming. I took an already done research - well in parts in college language- and made it into a more understandable report considering almost every aspect of the situation. I covered everything from the experimental design to how we can use the waste product in everyday life to how we can scale this project to how even a high schooler can make a difference by simply taking initiative and presenting this idea to their school. This report allowed me to take complex language and make it into an everyday language report. I showed my report to many people in the community and it was very satisfying to hear from their parents when they said “my son is going to present this idea to his school because they mostly have a lot of oil”. The report is about converting waste cooking oil to biodiesel.
2015 - 2020 - I have helped my mom in her business called “BLANK (don't want to say) Designs Collection”. Simply by watching her sell and trying it myself I acquired skills that I use to this day not only for business but simply for communicating. Currently, I am a social media and online sales handler for the company.
2018 - 2020 - I have been a part of Mu Alpha Theta for two year tutoring students for Math. Last year I was one of the top tutors for Mrs.Wood for algebra 2. I went there every time I did have an eagle time activity.
2020 - I recently joined the Science Honor society; we have helped the science fair in their activities.

Forex Trading - Getting Started

Forex Trading: a Beginner's Guide
The forex market is the world's largest international currency trading market operating non-stop during the working week. Most forex trading is done by professionals such as bankers. Generally forex trading is done through a forex broker - but there is nothing to stop anyone trading currencies. Forex currency trading allows buyers and sellers to buy the currency they need for their business and sellers who have earned currency to exchange what they have for a more convenient currency. The world's largest banks dominate forex and according to a survey in The Wall Street Journal Europe, the ten most active traders who are engaged in forex trading account for almost 73% of trading volume.
However, a sizeable proportion of the remainder of forex trading is speculative with traders building up an investment which they wish to liquidate at some stage for profit. While a currency may increase or decrease in value relative to a wide range of currencies, all forex trading transactions are based upon currency pairs. So, although the Euro may be 'strong' against a basket of currencies, traders will be trading in just one currency pair and may simply concern themselves with the Euro/US Dollar ( EUUSD) ratio. Changes in relative values of currencies may be gradual or triggered by specific events such as are unfolding at the time of writing this - the toxic debt crisis.
Because the markets for currencies are global, the volumes traded every day are vast. For the large corporate investors, the great benefits of trading on Forex are:

Enormous liquidity - over $4 trillion per day, that's $4,000,000,000. This means that there's always someone ready to trade with you
Every one of the world's free currencies are traded - this means that you may trade the currency you want at any time
Twenty four - hour trading during the 5-day working week
Operations are global which mean that you can trade with any part of the world at any time

From the point of view of the smaller trader there's lots of benefits too, such as:

A rapidly-changing market - that's one which is always changing and offering the chance to make money
Very well developed mechanisms for controlling risk
Ability to go long or short - this means that you can make money either in rising or falling markets
Leverage trading - meaning that you can benefit from large-volume trading while having a relatively-low capital base
Lots of options for zero-commission trading

How the forex Market Works
As forex is all about foreign exchange, all transactions are made up from a currency pair - say, for instance, the Euro and the US Dollar. The basic tool for trading forex is the exchange rate which is expressed as a ratio between the values of the two currencies such as EUUSD = 1.4086. This value, which is referred to as the 'forex rate' means that, at that particular time, one Euro would be worth 1.4086 US Dollars. This ratio is always expressed to 4 decimal places which means that you could see a forex rate of EUUSD = 1.4086 or EUUSD = 1.4087 but never EUUSD = 1.40865. The rightmost digit of this ratio is referred to as a 'pip'. So, a change from EUUSD = 1.4086 to EUUSD = 1.4088 would be referred to as a change of 2 pips. One pip, therefore is the smallest unit of trade.
With the forex rate at EUUSD = 1.4086, an investor purchasing 1000 Euros using dollars would pay $1,408.60. If the forex rate then changed to EUUSD = 1.5020, the investor could sell their 1000 Euros for $1,502.00 and bank the $93.40 as profit. If this doesn't seem to be large amount to you, you have to put the sum into context. With a rising or falling market, the forex rate does not simply change in a uniform way but oscillates and profits can be taken many times per day as a rate oscillates around a trend.
When you're expecting the value EUUSD to fall, you might trade the other way by selling Euros for dollars and buying then back when the forex rate has changed to your advantage.
Is forex Risky?
When you trade on forex as in any form of currency trading, you're in the business of currency speculation and it is just that - speculation. This means that there is some risk involved in forex currency trading as in any business but you might and should, take steps to minimise this. You can always set a limit to the downside of any trade, that means to define the maximum loss that you are prepared to accept if the market goes against you - and it will on occasions.
The best insurance against losing your shirt on the forex market is to set out to understand what you're doing totally. Search the internet for a good forex trading tutorial and study it in detail- a bit of good forex education can go a long way!. When there's bits you don't understand, look for a good forex trading forum and ask lots and lots of questions. Many of the people who habitually answer your queries on this will have a good forex trading blog and this will probably not only give you answers to your questions but also provide lots of links to good sites. Be vigilant, however, watch out for forex trading scams. Don't be too quick to part with your money and investigate anything very well before you shell out any hard-earned!
The forex Trading Systems
While you may be right in being cautious about any forex trading system that's advertised, there are some good ones around. Most of them either utilise forex charts and by means of these, identify forex trading signals which tell the trader when to buy or sell. These signals will be made up of a particular change in a forex rate or a trend and these will have been devised by a forex trader who has studied long-term trends in the market so as to identify valid signals when they occur. Many of the systems will use forex trading software which identifies such signals from data inputs which are gathered automatically from market information sources. Some utilise automated forex trading software which can trigger trades automatically when the signals tell it to do so. If these sound too good to be true to you, look around for online forex trading systems which will allow you undertake some dummy trading to test them out. by doing this you can get some forex trading training by giving them a spin before you put real money on the table.
How Much do you Need to Start off with?
This is a bit of a 'How long is a piece of string?' question but there are ways for to be beginner to dip a toe into the water without needing a fortune to start with. The minimum trading size for most trades on forex is usually 100,000 units of any currency and this volume is referred to as a standard "lot". However, there are many firms which offer the facility to purchase in dramatically-smaller lots than this and a bit of internet searching will soon locate these. There's many adverts quoting only a couple of hundred dollars to get going! You will often see the term acciones trading forex and this is just a general term which covers the small guy trading forex. Small-scale trading facilities such as these are often called as forex mini trading.
Where do You Start?
The single most obvious answer is of course - on the internet! Online forex trading gives you direct access to the forex market and there's lots and lots of companies out there who are in business just to deal with you online. Be vigilant, do spend the time to get some good forex trading education, again this can be provided online and set up your dummy account to trade before you attempt to go live. If you take care and take your time, there's no reason why you shouldn't be successful in forex trading so, have patience and stick at it!

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2020 Foresight: What to do to Protect and Profit in Bear Market.

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2020 Foresight: What to do to Protect and Profit in Bear Market.

Not many people like to talk about bear markets, especially not when the more emotive terms such as "Stock market crash" are used. It's often looked upon as fear mongering, and sensationalism. Preparation is practical, though.

This post is not intended to be fear mongering. In fact I want to discuss ways we can look at the market and plan for different scenarios that can mean we have no reason to be afraid.
Even if the S&P500 was to trade at 1,000 (big drop from current price (Today is the 31st August 2019, price is 2,946), we can plan and act in such ways this is a non harmful event for us. Particularly those who have net worth's to protect that has heavy stocks exposure.
This is not going to be one of these, "It's the top RIGHT NOW ... everyone panic!" sort of posts. Regardless of my views on this, I know this is a message that would not be well received. You do not know me, and too often people have cried wolf on this and been laughably incorrect. Instead what I will do is describe price moves in the indices that most people will have every reason to believe at this point can't happen.
Hopefully, they do not happen. I am not gleefully fangirling for a market crash. I just think there is prudence in preparation. These events will not happen in the hours after I post this, so I'd ask you kindly suspend prejudices. There is nothing to be gained by bickering over opinions of whether this will happen or not. I just want to give my perspective on how a person should protect themselves after it happens, if it does.
I'll cover some of the things I'd forecast will be points people will want to raise or questions likely to be asked. If you'd like to skip to the forecast and subsequent trade plan you can scroll down to the line break (unless you're going to make a common comment, then please read the following section first).

Why Do I think My Opinion Matters?

Many of you may be smarter than I in many ways, but few of you will have spent as much time assessing charting patterns as I have. Indeed, many people will scoff at the very idea of "lines on a chart" being worth anything. I'm not here to have this debate, I fully agree your view point is rational and logical. If I'd not spent years watching price charts every day, I'd think the same.
I focus mostly on Forex markets. I know these well. There are many ways currencies look like they may move that are ways they should not move unless there is big problems in stocks. These are nagging warnings. The attitude to risk in the Forex markets is negative, and stock markets show dangerous patterns. I watch these topping sorts of patterns every day. I see them in intra-day crashes, intra-week crashes and intra-month crashes.
Most major moves fit into these patterns, and when the same patterns are applied to previous stock markets in the months before they crashed, the way the patterns form and then complete (in a crash) is the same. From my perspective, these are just intra-decade crashes. There is little technical difference on the charts - although it's very different in the real world it affects.
This is why I am doing this in a "IF we see this ... then this is likely". I know at this point in the pattern, my methods predict something that will be highly unusual. If that thing happens, if we do not crash after that, we'd be breaking the trend of all market crashes in history (this is not likely, it does not seem the smart way to bet your net worth).

Technical Analysis is Tea Leaves!

You're welcome to your opinion on this, and I do understand your point of view. I will not post examples to try and prove my perspective on it, since it will always be called "curve-fitting". All I will say is nothing I have done in my years of trading has involved me persuading others what I do works. I do not sell training or anything of the like. I've spent many years using the things I've learned to bet my own money, and I've done well.
I will not debate on this subject, because it's always a deadlock. You can not convince me I've not seen what I've seen, and I can not show you what I've seen, and do not expect you to believe it without proof.

Stop Fear Mongering!

I really would like to re-iterate, I do not want you to be afraid. I am going to describe something that might happen that will be scary if it does happen. If it does not, there is no problem. I do not wish you to be fearful before, during or after.

This is like "Stop, Drop and Roll". None of us ever expect to be ablaze. If we are, this is good information. It will be better than running about waving arms and feeding the flames to engulf us. All I want to do here is to give you the "stop, drop and roll" of a market crash. To prevent you panicking and making bad decisions at bad areas. To allow you instead to go, "Fuck! Okay ... well that's not good. Now I have to ..." if scary things do happen.

No One Can Time the Market!

People have predicted and traded every stock market crash in history. The fact that many people try this and get it wrong does not take away from the fact people get this right, then place the right trades and make millions. Not many people make understanding the ways a market moves their life's work. If you do, you get a good feel for it's mood at any given time.

[Fundamental Analysis ] Says That Won't Happen!

I am not here to debate analysis viewpoints. Doing so has little use, it's better to forecast, assess and then take the best actions. I'll confess I am too ignorant on many of these topic to engage in debate. I wake up every day 5 days a week and decide where to bet my money. In doing this, I've found charts forecast and news reports. I can find no way of making money by being told what happened already, so I use the charts.
What I will say is for the warning move I will discuss to happen, something news related will have to change. Some catalyst event will have to happen. In 2008, it was Lehman. Make no mistake, the warnings were on the chart long before the bankruptcy was in the news.

Time in the Markets is Better than Timing the Markets

I am perfectly fine with this perspective, and not here to argue against it. If the market could drop 50% or more and you'd not be concerned because you think it will be back up in 10 years, this is none of my business.
I'm a day trader, so for me personally timing the markets is everything. Spending a lot of time in the market day trading often means you've made a mistake. I'm looking for ways to get foresight into what market moves may develop and understanding of what times and conditions I can enter into these moves to profit from the.
I want to stress I am not necessarily advocating the average person tries to time the markets. In the same way an electrician would not suggest you re-wire your own home. You also could not say to the electrician it's better to leave the lights off than risk getting a shock. Different preparations and skills sets give different possibilities. I spent a lot of years and lost money through a lot of them starting out learning how to do this.
The things I will explain here will not allow a person to consistently time the market. If I may be excused a cheesy pun, this "crash course" will be dealing with only single event, and one single set of scenarios. What I want to put forward for you in this is price moves to watch for and then (really quite specific) levels of price that are likely to offer us the best prices to protect long stock portfolios, or take speculative short trades. Very thin area of assessment.

Forecast and Plan.

What if the S&P500 Went to 2,200 ... Quickly?

It's the weekend, and the last day of August in 2019. The S&P500 has closed 2922 after rallying through the week after some sharp drops from all time highs. We may see record highs again if this keeps up ... but what if next week it opens and starts to fall? Or maybe rallies higher but can not make a new high and starts to fall.
What if it falls faster than it did in the last drop, and what if this time it does not stop? What if it gets to the lows of 2790, and goes from there quickly to 2700. These big levels act as resistance and the market can not trade higher than them. Instead it hits them, reverses and goes down more.

I think people would be nervous, but there'd be still the feeling of this being a normal, albeit tough, corrective move. There's weekly lows of 2,333. Above here the market is still technically up-trending. What if we got there, and the market went through it like it was nothing? What if the coming weeks or months we seen candles bigger than any we've seen recently? What if we were hearing news reports of record falls, rather than record highs?
What if over the development of only weeks and some horrific trading days we went from today's 2922 to break under the 2015 lows of 1,886?
I think people would be afraid!
Nothing I am saying is for the purposes of fear mongering, but I think this is possible. I'd like to say I think it's "highly unlikely", but I am thinking a lot about how to structure real bets on it and I like my odds. If this happens, it's likely the market will go lower still. What you do during the following weeks and months may have a huge affect on your financial health by the start of 2021.

How Does This Scenario Look on a S&P500 Chart?

That looks like it's not going to happen, right? I think that this looks like it's not going to happen. We learn through our life experience, and my life experience has taught me when I ignore what I think about things like this and build well structured trade plans that would assume it will happen, money comes. For me, this makes sense to bet on at the moment, as unlikely as it looks. That's getting a bit into "Calling the high", though. \Which this is not about.
Edit: Hmm, it sounds like it's not going to happen. I can not post pictures here apparently.

This is about what do you do if this happens? What if there is a day when they say on the news that the market just made it's lowest point in the last five years ... and economists and experts say it can go down more!

1 - Filter and assess your sources.
Before you act or even think about the information these sources have (pertaining to what trades to make or expect), check what they were saying now. If they're not saying this could happen - don't worry too much about what they say happens next. They have as much chance of being wrong.

2 - Do not panic.
This is a time to remain calm. Bad things have happened, and there will have been multiple days the market has dropped precipitously. Different economic factors explaining these moves may be threatening to get worse and the market may take more dangerous swings spiking under recent lows. This is the point at which most people will panic and make bad choices with their portfolio.

3 - Buy Around 1,800
This obviously sounds like something anyone would do right now, with price at 2,922; but with the conditions that'd have to be occurring for this of move to happen will make this highly counter intuitive at the time.

4 - Understand Something Changed, New Highs are Not Coming
From peak pessimism around 1,800 I expect the market to start to rally. Rallying strong. Making markets great again.
At this point, you should understand something has changed. The market is not meant to trade at that level in an up-trend. Frequently when these levels 'break', there is a strong counter move that is fierce. It's also brief. We can buy here and offset some of the losses in the mini bounce (but be very cautious).
2,129 area is where the danger of a bear move comes back in. It might rally a bit above here into 2,333.

This is where the second mistake many people will make will be. Not buying the lows, but then starting to buy into this rally thinking it's going to new highs.

Very Important: If price makes moves consistent with what I've described 2,220 - 2,300 are hedge areas.
If you take appropriate actions in these areas you can protect yourself from the chance of excessive loss if the market is to crash in 2020. You can also do this without taking on much risk. Granted if you hedge long portfolios there is some risk of losing a little, but your area of risk on these hedges is less than the area of risk on a long portfolio after this has happened.
When this has happened, historically it's always led to a crash in the coming months/year. We'll have done something the markets do not usually do. Big corrections may look similar, but when you deal with this all the time, you come to know there are specifics that should be noted. If the levels I've mentioned for a buy fill, the market is crashing. It's no longer a question of if.

5 - Hold Hedges Until 1,100

If we crash, the low will probably be only a bit below this level. Anything more than this in a fall would be truly horrific (I know many people think this is horrific, but from a technical point of view this is really to be expected, and not unusual. It only happens after long periods of time, so it's unexpected and uncommon. It not unusual in trend formation).
I am not a financial adviser, and can not tell you any trades you should be making to hedge portfolios or to take speculative positions. I've given these levels on the S&P500, and there are many things correlated to this you could use to protect portfolios. If this happens, I will be very much 'In the trenches'. I'll be trading in various markets every day and sharing some of my insights and trade plans, but I can't tell you specifically what to do.

I am only sharing this with you to let you know there are strategies people have used in the past to predict crashes, and I've used these strategies a lot and become good with them. They now predict a market crash starting in 2019, developing through 2020, and the things I've explained in this post would be the next steps if the prediction is accurate.
If the next steps happen, the strategy would then forecast the S&P500 to go from 2,200 - 2,400 sort of range to 1,000.
I am asking no one to take this seriously at the moment, but I would suggest if the market makes moves similar to what I've described - you then consider there may be a lot of merit to what it further forecasts.

How to get started in Forex - A comprehensive guide for newbies

Almost every day people come to this subreddit asking the same basic questions over and over again. I've put this guide together to point you in the right direction and help you get started on your forex journey.

A quick background on me before you ask: My name is Bob, I'm based out of western Canada. I started my forex journey back in January 2018 and am still learning. However I am trading live, not on demo accounts. I also code my own EA's. I not certified, licensed, insured, or even remotely qualified as a professional in the finance industry. Nothing I say constitutes financial advice. Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, but everything I've outlined below is a synopsis of some tough lessons I've learned over the last year of being in this business.

LET'S GET SOME UNPLEASANTNESS OUT OF THE WAY

I'm going to call you stupid. I'm also going to call you dumb. I'm going to call you many other things. I do this because odds are, you are stupid, foolish,and just asking to have your money taken away. Welcome to the 95% of retail traders. Perhaps uneducated or uninformed are better phrases, but I've never been a big proponent of being politically correct.

Want to get out of the 95% and join the 5% of us who actually make money doing this? Put your grown up pants on, buck up, and don't give me any of this pc "This is hurting my feelings so I'm not going to listen to you" bullshit that the world has been moving towards.

Let's rip the bandage off quickly on this point - the world does not give a fuck about you. At one point maybe it did, it was this amazing vision nicknamed the American Dream. It died an agonizing, horrible death at the hand of capitalists and entrepreneurs. The world today revolves around money. Your money, my money, everybody's money. People want to take your money to add it to theirs. They don't give a fuck if it forces you out on the street and your family has to live in cardboard box. The world just stopped caring in general. It sucks, but it's the way the world works now. Welcome to the new world order. It's called Capitalism.

And here comes the next hard truth that you will need to accept - Forex is a cruel bitch of a mistress. She will hurt you. She will torment you. She will give you nightmares. She will keep you awake at night. And then she will tease you with a glimmer of hope to lure you into a false sense of security before she then guts you like a fish and shows you what your insides look like. This statement applies to all trading markets - they are cruel, ruthless, and not for the weak minded.

The sooner you accept these truths, the sooner you will become profitable. Don't accept it? That's fine. Don't bother reading any further. If I've offended you I don't give a fuck. You can run back home and hide under your bed. The world doesn't care and neither do I.

For what it's worth - I am not normally an major condescending asshole like the above paragraphs would suggest. In fact, if you look through my posts on this subreddit you will see I am actually quite helpful most of the time to many people who come here. But I need you to really understand that Forex is not for most people. It will make you cry. And if the markets themselves don't do it, the people in the markets will.

LESSON 1 - LEARN THE BASICS

Save yourself and everybody here a bunch of time - learn the basics of forex. You can learn the basics for free - BabyPips has one of the best free courses online which explains what exactly forex is, how it works, different strategies and methods of how to approach trading, and many other amazing topics.

You can access the BabyPips course by clicking this link: https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex

Do EVERY course in the School of Pipsology. It's free, it's comprehensive, and it will save you from a lot of trouble. It also has the added benefit of preventing you from looking foolish and uneducated when you come here asking for help if you already know this stuff.

If you still have questions about how forex works, please see the FREE RESOURCES links on the /Forex FAQ which can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/Forex/wiki/index

Quiz Time
Answer these questions truthfully to yourself:

-What is the difference between a market order, a stop order, and a limit order?
-How do you draw a support/resistance line? (Demonstrate it to yourself)
-What is the difference between MACD, RSI, and Stochastic indicators?
-What is fundamental analysis and how does it differ from technical analysis and price action trading?
-True or False: It's better to have a broker who gives you 500:1 margin instead of 50:1 margin. Be able to justify your reasoning.

If you don't know to answer to any of these questions, then you aren't ready to move on. Go back to the School of Pipsology linked above and do it all again.

If you can answer these questions without having to refer to any kind of reference then congratulations, you are ready to move past being a forex newbie and are ready to dive into the wonderful world of currency trading! Move onto Lesson 2 below.

LESSON 2 - RANDOM STRANGERS ARE NOT GOING TO HELP YOU GET RICH IN FOREX

This may come as a bit of a shock to you, but that random stranger on instagram who is posting about how he is killing it on forex is not trying to insprire you to greatness. He's also not trying to help you. He's also not trying to teach you how to attain financial freedom.

99.99999% of people posting about wanting to help you become rich in forex are LYING TO YOU.

Why would such nice, polite people do such a thing? Because THEY ARE TRYING TO PROFIT FROM YOUR STUPIDITY.

Plain and simple. Here's just a few ways these "experts" and "gurus" profit from you:

Referral Links - If they require you to click a specific link to signup for something, it means they are an affiliate. They get a commission from whatever the third party is that they are sending you to. I don't care if it's a brokerage, training program, hell even an Amazon link to a book - if they insist you have to click their super exclusive, can't-get-this-deal-any-other-way-but-clicking-my-link type bullshit, it's an affiliate link. There is nothing inherently wrong with affiliate programs, but you are literally generating money for some stranger because they convinced you to buy something. Some brokers such as ICMarkets have affiliate programs that payout a percentage of the commission you generate - this is a really clever system - whether you profit or blow your entire account, the person who referred you to the broker makes a profit off you. Clever eh?
Signal Services, Education & Training Programs, Courses - If somebody is telling you they are making a killing with a signal service and are trying to convince you to join it, I guarantee they are getting a piece of your monthly fee. And better still, these signal services often work...for about a week. Just long enough to suck a bunch of poor fools into it. You see people making money, you want in so you agree to pay the $200+/month subscription fee. You follow the signals and it looks like it's making money for a few days or weeks. Then it turns sideways, you start losing money hand over fist. Pretty soon you have lost most of your trading account because you blindly followed a signal service. And better still - when you go screaming at the person running the signal service they will be very quick to point you to their No Refunds policy. To add insult to injury, the buttfucker that referred you to the signal service in the past will likely listen to you getting mad, and then come back with something like "Sorry it didn't work out, but I just joined this other amazing service and it's working great, you should come join it to earn your money back. Here's my link..." You get the point here right?
Multi-Level Marketing (MLMs) - These people are scum. They are going to offer you training and education, signals, access to forex experts and gurus, and all kinds of other shit with the promise that you will live the dream and become financially free. They are also loading you into a pyrmaid scheme where you will be hounded to recruit other people and make money off them just like you got roped into it. A really prime example here is iMarkets Live (or IML for short). Don't touch this shit with a 10 foot pole. I don't care what they are claiming, you will lose everything using them.
Fund Managers - These people make my skin crawl. It's a classic scam and it works like this - somebody will post online about how much money they are making trading forex/commodities/stocks/whatever. Most of the time they won't explicitly post they are offering a trading service, rather they just put the message out there and wait for the ignorant masses (that's you) to contact them. They will charm you. They will lie to you. They will promise you the moon if you simply wire them some money or give them API access to your trading account. Care to guess what happens next? If you send a wire transfer (or Western Union...hell any kind of payment to them) they will vanish. Happens usually after they take a bunch of suckers for the ride. You sent them $2,000 and so do 9 other suckers. They just made $20,000 and are gone. With API access to your account, you will find your account gets blown super fast or worse - possibly leaving you open to persecution by the broker you are using.

These are just a few examples. The reality is that very few people make it big in forex or any kind of trading. If somebody is trying to sell you the dream, they are essentially a magician - making you look the other way while they snatch your wallet and clean you out.

Additionally, on the topic of fund managers - legitimate fund managers will be certified, licensed, and insured. Ask them for proof of those 3 things. What they typically look like are:

Certified - This varies from country to country, in the US it's FINRA (http://www.finra.org). They need to have their Series 7 certification minimum. You can make the case that other FINRA certifications are acceptable in lieu of Series 7, but the 7 is the gold standard.
Licensed - They need to have a valid business license issued by the government. It must clearly state they are an investment company, preferrably a hedge fund because they have some super strict requirements to operate (and often require $25,000+ in fees just to get their business license, so you know they at least have some skin in the game).
Insured - They need to be backed by an insurance company. I'm not talking general insurance for shit like their office burning down. I'm talking about a government-implemented protection insurance program - in the US I believe that is issued by the Securities Investment Protection Corporation (https://www.sipc.org/).

If you are talking to a fund manager and they are insisting they have all of these, get a copy of their verification documents and lookup their licenses on the directories of the issuers to verify they are valid. If they are, then at least you are talking to somebody who seems to have their shit together and is doing investment management and trading as a professional and you are at least partially protected when the shit hits the fan.

LESSON 3 - UNDERSTAND YOUR RISK

Many people jump into Forex, drop $2000 into a broker account and start trading 1 lot orders because they signed up with a broker thinking they will get rich because they were given 500:1 margin and can risk it all on each trade. Worst-case scenario you lose your account, best case scenario you become a millionaire very quickly. Seems like a pretty good gamble right? You are dead wrong.

As a new trader, you should never risk more than 1% of your account balance on a trade. If you have some experience and are confident and doing well, then it's perfectly natural to risk 2-3% of your account per trade. Anybody who risks more than 4-5% of their account on a single trade deserves to blow their account. At that point you aren't trading, you are gambling. Don't pretend you are a trader when really you are just putting everything on red and hoping the roulette ball lands in the right spot. It's stupid and reckless and going to screw you very quickly.

Let's do some math here:

You put $2,000 into your trading account.
Risking 1% means you are willing to lose $20 per trade. That means you are going to be trading micro lots, or 0.01 lots most likely ($0.10/pip). At that level you can have a trade stop loss at -200 pips and only lose $20. It's the best starting point for anybody. Additionally, if you SL 20 trades in a row you are only down $200 (or 10% of your account) which isn't that difficult to recover from.
Risking 3% means you are willing to lose $60 per trade. You could do mini lots at this point, which is 0.1 lots (or $1/pip). Let's say you SL on 20 trades in a row. You've just lost $1,200 or 60% of your account. Even veteran traders will go through periods of repeat SL'ing, you are not a special snowflake and are not immune to periods of major drawdown.
Risking 5% means you are willing to lose $100 per trade. SL 20 trades in a row, your account is blown. As Red Foreman would call it - Good job dumbass.

Never risk more than 1% of your account on any trade until you can show that you are either consistently breaking even or making a profit. By consistently, I mean 200 trades minimum. You do 200 trades over a period of time and either break-even or make a profit, then you should be alright to increase your risk.

Unfortunately, this is where many retail traders get greedy and blow it. They will do 10 trades and hit their profit target on 9 of them. They will start seeing huge piles of money in their future and get greedy. They will start taking more risk on their trades than their account can handle.

200 trades of break-even or profitable performance risking 1% per trade. Don't even think about increasing your risk tolerance until you do it. When you get to this point, increase you risk to 2%. Do 1,000 trades at this level and show break-even or profit. If you blow your account, go back down to 1% until you can figure out what the hell you did differently or wrong, fix your strategy, and try again.

Once you clear 1,000 trades at 2%, it's really up to you if you want to increase your risk. I don't recommend it. Even 2% is bordering on gambling to be honest.

LESSON 4 - THE 500 PIP DRAWDOWN RULE

This is a rule I created for myself and it's a great way to help protect your account from blowing.

Sometimes the market goes insane. Like really insane. Insane to the point that your broker can't keep up and they can't hold your orders to the SL and TP levels you specified. They will try, but during a flash crash like we had at the start of January 2019 the rules can sometimes go flying out the window on account of the trading servers being unable to keep up with all the shit that's hitting the fan.

Because of this I live by a rule I call the 500 Pip Drawdown Rule and it's really quite simple - Have enough funds in your account to cover a 500 pip drawdown on your largest open trade. I don't care if you set a SL of -50 pips. During a flash crash that shit sometimes just breaks.

So let's use an example - you open a 0.1 lot short order on USDCAD and set the SL to 50 pips (so you'd only lose $50 if you hit stoploss). An hour later Trump makes some absurd announcement which causes a massive fundamental event on the market. A flash crash happens and over the course of the next few minutes USDCAD spikes up 500 pips, your broker is struggling to keep shit under control and your order slips through the cracks. By the time your broker is able to clear the backlog of orders and activity, your order closes out at 500 pips in the red. You just lost $500 when you intended initially to only risk $50.

It gets kinda scary if you are dealing with whole lot orders. A single order with a 500 pip drawdown is $5,000 gone in an instant. That will decimate many trader accounts.

Remember my statements above about Forex being a cruel bitch of a mistress? I wasn't kidding.

Granted - the above scenario is very rare to actually happen. But glitches to happen from time to time. Broker servers go offline. Weird shit happens which sets off a fundamental shift. Lots of stuff can break your account very quickly if you aren't using proper risk management.

LESSON 5 - UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT TRADING METHODOLOGIES

Generally speaking, there are 3 trading methodologies that traders employ. It's important to figure out what method you intend to use before asking for help. Each has their pros and cons, and you can combine them in a somewhat hybrid methodology but that introduces challenges as well.

In a nutshell:

Price Action Trading (Sometimes called Naked Trading) is very effective at identifying when trends will start and finish. This gives you the advantage of staying ahead of the market and predicting when a change in trend direction will occur. It has the disadvantage of being really easy to screw it up if you don't plot your support and resistance lines properly and interpret the chart wrong. Because you can identify a change in trend direction, you'll generally make more profit on a new trend than a technical strategy will.
Technical Analytics (or TA) uses math and statistics to try and identify where the market is headed or confirm/reject whether a trend is happening. It has the advantage of being very math and stat driven which is hard to refute the numbers, but it has the disadvantage of being late to the party when it comes to identifying trends (hence why people call TA a lagging strategy). When people fail using TA, it's not because of the math - it's because you misinterpreted what the math is telling you.
Fundamental Analysis (or FA) uses news and macro scale events to predict what is going on. A really good example right now is Brexit, what a clusterfuck that is. Every time some major brexit news breaks it causes all sorts of choas in almost every currency pair. Fundamental trading has the highest potential profitability per trade but it also has the highest potential drawdown per trade.

Now you may be thinking that you want to be a a price action trader - you should still learn the principles and concepts behind TA and FA. Same if you are planning to be a technical trader - you should learn about price action and fundamental analysis. More knowledge is better, always.

With regards to technical analysis, you need to really understand what the different indicators are tell you. It's very easy to misinterpret what an indicator is telling you, which causes you to make a bad trade and lose money. It's also important to understand that every indicator can be tuned to your personal preferences.

You might find, for example, that using Bollinger Bands with the normal 20 period SMA close, 2 standard deviation is not effective for how you look at the chart, but changing that to say a 20 period EMA average price, 1 standard deviation bollinger band indicator could give you significantly more insight.

LESSON 6 - TIMEFRAMES MATTER

Understanding the differences in which timeframes you trade on will make or break your chosen strategy. Some strategies work really well on Daily timeframes (i.e. Ichimoku) but they fall flat on their face if you use them on 1H timeframes, for example.

There is no right or wrong answer on what timeframe is best to trade on. Generally speaking however, there are 2 things to consider:

Speed - If you are scalping (trading on the really fast candles like 1M, 5M, 15M, etc) odds are your trades are very short lived. Maybe 10 minutes to an hour tops. For the most part, scalping strategies will produce little profit per trade but make up for it in the sheer volume of trades. Whereas swing trading may only make a few trades but each one could be worth a significant amount of money.
Spread (the fee you pay to the broker when you trade) - If you are a scalper, the spread is your worst enemy because you have to overcome it very fast to make a profit on your order. Whereas swing trading the spread hardly impacts you at all.

If you are a total newbie to forex, I suggest you don't trade on anything shorter than the 1H timeframe when you are first learning. Trading on higher timeframes tends to be much more forgiving and profitable per trade. Scalping is a delicate art and requires finesse and can be very challenging when you are first starting out.

LESSON 7 - AUTOBOTS...ROLL OUT!

Yeah...I'm a geek and grew up with the Transformers franchise decades before Michael Bay came along. Deal with it.

Forex bots are called EA's (Expert Advisors). They can be wonderous and devastating at the same time. /Forex is not really the best place to get help with them. That is what /algotrading is useful for. However some of us that lurk on /Forex code EA's and will try to assist when we can.

Anybody can learn to code an EA. But just like how 95% of retail traders fail, I would estimate the same is true for forex bots. Either the strategy doesn't work, the code is buggy, or many other reasons can cause EA's to fail. Because EA's can often times run up hundreds of orders in a very quick period of time, it's critical that you test them repeatedly before letting them lose on a live trading account so they don't blow your account to pieces. You have been warned.

If you want to learn how to code an EA, I suggest you start with MQL. It's a programming language which can be directly interpretted by Meta Trader. The Meta Trader terminal client even gives you a built in IDE for coding EA's in MQL. The downside is it can be buggy and glitchy and caused many frustrating hours of work to figure out what is wrong.

If you don't want to learn MQL, you can code an EA up in just about any programming language. Python is really popular for forex bots for some reason. But that doesn't mean you couldn't do it in something like C++ or Java or hell even something more unusual like JQuery if you really wanted.

I'm not going to get into the finer details of how to code EA's, there are some amazing guides out there. Just be careful with them. They can be your best friend and at the same time also your worst enemy when it comes to forex.

One final note on EA's - don't buy them. Ever. Let me put this into perspective - I create an EA which is literally producing money for me automatically 24/5. If it really is a good EA which is profitable, there is no way in hell I'm selling it. I'm keeping it to myself to make a fortune off of. EA's that are for sale will not work, will blow your account, and the developer who coded it will tell you that's too darn bad but no refunds. Don't ever buy an EA from anybody.

LESSON 8 - BRING ON THE HATERS

You are going to find that this subreddit is frequented by trolls. Some of them will get really nasty. Some of them will threaten you. Some of them will just make you miserable. It's the price you pay for admission to the /Forex club.

If you can't handle it, then I suggest you don't post here. Find a more newbie-friendly site. It sucks, but it's reality.

We often refer to trolls on this subreddit as shitcunts. That's your word of the day. Learn it, love it. Shitcunts.

YOU MADE IT, WELCOME TO FOREX!

If you've made it through all of the above and aren't cringing or getting scared, then welcome aboard the forex train! You will fit in nicely here. Ask your questions and the non-shitcunts of our little corner of reddit will try to help you.

Assuming this post doesn't get nuked and I don't get banned for it, I'll add more lessons to this post over time. Lessons I intend to add in the future:

Demo Trading
Why you will blow your first account and what to do when it happens
Trading Psychology (this will be a beefy one and will take a while to put together)
Exotics vs Majors and which you should focus on as a newbie (aka how to blow your account in a single trade with exotics)
Which Broker Should You Use? (This is covered in pretty good detail on the FAQ already - https://www.reddit.com/Forex/wiki/index - so I may not bother)
Hedging (there isn't really a good guide written on this anywhere)
Doubling Your Risk to Save Your Ass or Lose a Shit Ton (aka Martingale & Anti-Martingale)
Risk On/Off
Forex Calendars
Currency Strength / Heat Maps
Swap
Margin Calls (What are they and why are you getting them?)

If there is something else you feel should be included please drop a comment and I'll add it to the above list of pending topics.

Cheers,

Bob

MAME 0.210

It’s time for the delayed release of MAME 0.210, marking the end of May. This month, we’ve got lots of fixes for issues with supported systems, as well as some interesting additions. Newly added hand-held and tabletop games include Tronica’s Shuttle Voyage and Space Rescue, Mattel’s Computer Chess, and Parker Brothers’ Talking Baseball and Talking Football. On the arcade side, we’ve added high-level emulation of Gradius on Bubble System hardware and a prototype of the Neo Geo game Viewpoint. For this release, Jack Li has contributed an auto-fire plugin, providing additional functionality over the built-in auto-fire feature.
A number of systems have had been promoted to working, or had critical issues fixed, including the Heathkit H8, Lola 8A, COSMAC Microkit, the Soviet PC clone EC-1840, Zorba, and COMX 35. MMU issues affecting Apollo and Mac operating systems have been addressed. Other notable improvements include star field emulation in Tutankham, further progress on SGI emulation, Sega Saturn video improvements, write support for the CoCo OS-9 disk image format, and preliminary emulation for MP3 audio on Konami System 573 games.
There are lots of software list additions this month. Possibly most notable is the first dump of a Hanimex Pencil II cartridge, thanks to the silicium.org team. Another batch of cleanly cracked and original Apple II software has been added, along with more ZX Spectrum +3 software, and a number of Colour Genie cassette titles.
That’s all we’ve got space for here, but there are lots more bug fixes, alternate versions of supported arcade games, and general code quality improvements. As always, you can get the source and Windows binary packages from the download page.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

02932: [Graphics] (tutankhm.cpp) tutankhm, tutankhms: Background stars are missing in attract mode. (Couriersud)
05447: [Graphics] (studio2.cpp) studio2 and clones: Graphics display incorrectly. (Curt Coder)
05553: [DIP/Input] (royalmah.cpp) mjdiplob: DIP switches are not documented. (kamilz)
06242: [Graphics] (cgenie.cpp) cgenie [labyfear]: Missing graphics on labyrinth map. (Dirk Best)
07232: [Crash/Freeze] (studio2.cpp) studio2: Cannot boot software. (Curt Coder)
07286: [Media Support] (spectrum.cpp) spectrum and clones: Loading Sabre Wulf from a TZX cassette image fails. (AmatCoder)
07287: [Sound] (jr100.cpp) jr100, jr100u: After pressing a key, machine freezes and emits a continuous tone. (Robbbert)
07296: [Media Support] (neogeocd.cpp) neocdz: Software will not boot. (AJR)
07297: [DIP/Input] (namcos22.cpp) aquajet, dirtdash, tokyowar: Analog controls are unresponsive. (AJR)
07307: [Sound] (snes.cpp) snes: SPC700 plays at incorrect rate after restoring saved state. (Ivan Vangelista)
07309: [Crash/Freeze] (8080bw.cpp) invrvnge, invrvngegw: Watchdog reset a few seconds after starting a game. (AJR)
07310: [Graphics] (route16.cpp) route16, route16a, route16c: Map graphics missing or shifted. (Robbbert)
07314: [Crash/Freeze] (homedata.cpp) mjikaga: Game boots, then immediately gets stuck at a white screen. (Ivan Vangelista)
07315: [Misc.] (model2.cpp) rchase2, gunblade, topskatr, srallyc, manxtt: Settings are not preserved. (Dirk Best)
07316: [Crash/Freeze] (vgmplay.cpp) vgmplay: MAME crashes when sliders are selected. (cam900)
07317: [DIP/Input] (zorba.cpp) zorba: Keyboard is not working. (Patrick Mackinlay)
07319: [Interface] (tmc600.cpp) tmc600s2: Keyboard is not working. (Robbbert)
07323: [Graphics] (alpha68k.cpp) timesold and clones: Title screen is displayed incorrectly. (O. Galibert, AJR)
07325: [Graphics] (sbowling.cpp) sbowling: Player 2 graphics are displayed incorrectly. (Ivan Vangelista)
07326: [Crash/Freeze] (cosmicos.cpp) cosmicos: Machine doesn’t boot correctly, just producing a blank display. (Robbbert)
07332: [Gameplay] (galaxian.cpp) zigzagb, zigzagb2: Game will hang when you play a 2-player game. (AJR)
07334: [DIP/Input] (microtan.cpp) microtan: Out-of-memory when trying to run BASIC. (Robbbert)
07335: [Media Support] (comx35.cpp) comx35p,comx35n: Cannot load software from cassette. (Robbbert)

New working machines

Computer Chess (Mattel) [hap, Sean Riddle]
Gradius (Bubble System) [ArcadeHacker, Bryan McPhail]
Parker Brothers Starting Lineup Talking Baseball [hap, Kevin Horton]
Parker Brothers Superstar Lineup Talking Football [hap, Kevin Horton]
Player's Edge Plus (X000403P+XP000013) 4 of a Kind Bonus Poker [Brian Troha]
Player's Edge Plus (X000556P+XP000038) Dueces Joker Wild Poker [Brian Troha]
SciSys Chess Partner 2000 [hap, bataais]
SKB Kontur Krokha [shattered]
Tronica Shuttle Voyage [Sean Riddle, avlixa]
Tronica Space Rescue [algestam]

New working clones

Boxy Boy (World, SB2) [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping Union]
Carnival (upright, PIT8253 music) [hap, Andrew Welburn]
Deer Hunting USA V4.4.1 (Japan) [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
Elektronika Merry Cook [algestam]
Fidelity Electronics Chess Challenger 10 (model CCX) [bataais]
Game & Watch: Climber (crystal screen) [algestam]
GunNail (bootleg) [xodaraP, sylphia]
Gunlock (Ver 2.0O 1993/12/15) [Action Jackson]
Jack Potten's Poker (set 11, German, W.W.) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Jack Potten's Poker (set 12, no Double-Up) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Kid Niki (bootleg) [Bonky0013]
Last Fortress - Toride (Japan, VG460 PCB) [twistedsymphony]
Moon Cresta (bootleg set 4) [Darran, The Dumping Union]
Ms. Pac-Man (Impeuropex bootleg) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Player's Edge Plus (PP0550) Joker Poker (Two Pair or Better, set 2) [Brian Troha]
Point Blank 2 (World, GNB2/VER.A) [Guru, smf]
Point Blank 2 (World, GNB2/VER.A alt) [Guru, smf]
Royal Card Part-Two (Nichibutsu HW, Ver. 1.02) [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Street Fighter EX2 (Euro 980312) [Jorge Silva]
Super Bobble Bobble (bootleg, set 6) [Bonky0013]
Super Cobra (encrypted) [TeamEurope]
Tetris (D.R. Korea, set 2) [Fabrice Arzeno, The Dumping Union]
Touchmaster 7000 (v8.04 Germany) [Alex Meijer, The Dumping Union]
Viewpoint (prototype) [Brian Hargrove]

Machines promoted to working

Bubble System BIOS [ArcadeHacker, Bryan McPhail]
Eckhard Schiller BCS 3 rev 2.4 [Robbbert]
Electronic Milton [hap]
Heath Company Heathkit H8 Digital Computer [Robbbert]
Institut Ivo Lola Ribar Lola 8A [Robbbert]
RCA COSMAC Microkit [Robbbert]

Clones promoted to working

EC-1840 [shattered]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

Cricket [@LosTrastosDeXaX, ClawGrip]
Ensoniq TS-10 [R. Belmont, DBWBP.com]
MegaTouch XL Titanium (Version r0?, cracked) [C. Ward, R. Belmont]
Motorola MVME-162 [Edström, Bitsavers]
Percussion Freaks 2nd Mix (GE912 VER. KAA) [Windy Fairy, smf]
Power Sled (Slave, Revision A) [Phil Bennett]
Ensoniq TS-12 [R. Belmont, DBWBP.com]
Game & Watch: Chef [algestam]
Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ 3 Evolution Firmware Update (GDX-0023) [Wiggy2k]
Sega Yonin Uchi Mahjong MJ (Update Disc Ver.1.008, Japan) (CDP-10002B) [Wiggy2k]
SpongeBob SquarePants Ticket Boom [brizzo, MetalliC]
Star Horse 2002 (sound, Export/Taiwan) [CoolFox, MetalliC]
Star Rider [Vas Crabb, Matt Ownby, TrevEB]
Super Mini-Boy [Roberto Fresca, TeamEurope]
Telex Computer Products Telex 274-61C Sixteen Station Control Unit [Al Kossow, Bitsavers]
Video Technology Video Painter (PAL) [ClawGrip, The Dumping Union]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

80286 Standard System (SARC RC2015 chipset) [rfka01, AJR]
Abit FU340 [rfka01, AJR]
Asus PCI/I-486SP3G [rfka01, AJR]
Asus PCI/I-A486S [rfka01, AJR]
Asus PVI-486AP4 [rfka01, AJR]
Asus PVI-486SP3 [rfka01, AJR]
Asus VL/EISA-486SV1 [rfka01, AJR]
Asus VL/I-486SV2G [rfka01, AJR]
Biostar MB8433-UUD-A [rfka01, AJR]
Commodore Business Machines DT386 [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines DT486 [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines Laptop C286LT [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines Laptop C386SX-LT [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines PC 45-III [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines PC 50-II [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines PC 60-III [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines PC 70-III [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines SL 286-16 [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines Tower 386 [rfka01]
Commodore Business Machines Tower 486 [rfka01]
Compaq SLT/286 [rfka01]
CX Technology CX SXD [rfka01, AJR]
Cycle Warriors [Sugoi Helsinki]
Dell Computer Corporation System 200 [rfka01]
Dolphin Treasure (0101250V, Queensland) [Dam0, Heihachi_73]
Elitegroup Computer Systems ECS-386/32 [rfka01, AJR]
Elitegroup Computer Systems UM386 (Rev 1.1) [rfka01, AJR]
Everex Systems EV-1806 [rfka01, AJR]
First International Computer 486-VIP-IO [AJR]
First International Computer 486-VIP-IO2 [AJR]
Forex Computer Company unknown 386 AT clone with Forex chipset [rfka01, AJR]
Indian Dreaming (0101340V, Queensland) [Dam0, Heihachi_73]
J-Bond A433C-C/A450C-C [rfka01, AJR]
KT Technology KT216WB5-HI Rev.2 [rfka01, AJR]
LM-103S [rfka01, AJR]
Magitronic Technology Magitronic B233 [AJR]
MAT286 Rev.D [AJR]
NCR PC-8 [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810 M15 [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810 M16 CGA version [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810 M16 VGA version [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810 M30 [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810 M55 [rfka01]
Nixdorf Computer AG 8810/25 CPC - PC01 [rfka01]
Olivetti M290 [rfka01]
The Phantom of the Opera (3.1) [Gerald (COY)]
Power Sled (Main, hack of Relay) [Phil Bennet, MetalliC]
Power Sled (Relay, Revision A) [Phil Bennet]
Shuttle Computer InternationalHOT-409 [rfka01, AJR]
Siemends-Nixdorf PCD-3Nsx [rfka01]
Siemends-Nixdorf PCD-4H, PCD-4M [rfka01]
Siemends-Nixdorf PCD-4ND [rfka01]
Siemends-Nixdorf PCD-4NL [rfka01]
Toptek Micro Computer 286 Turbo [AJR]
Triumph-Adler Walkstation 386DX [rfka01]
Triumph-Adler Walkstation 386 SX [rfka01]
unknown 286 AT clone (HT12/A chipset) [rfka01, AJR]

New working software list additions

c64_cart:
- The Final ChessCard (Eng, v0.9/v1.0) [hap, Ratuv]
- The Final ChessCard (Ger, v1.3/v1.5) [hap, DDI]
c64_flop: The Final ChessCard [hap, Forum64.de]
cd32: Amiga CD32 - Volume 1, Amiga CD32 - Volume 2, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 1, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 2, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 3, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 4, Arcade Pool, Arcade Pool (Alt), ATR: All Terrain Racing [FakeShemp]
cgenie_cass: Abenteuerland, Adressdatei II, Africa, Ballon, Basic-Packer 2.13 (alternate), Benchmark Test, Botschaft, Brücke, Bumm Bumm, CIA-Agent, Cave Man, Charset, Chess Machine, Crazy Chaser, Deathstar, Deathtrap, Defender, Der Flohwalzer, Dez-Hex, Die Juwelen des Grafen Dracula, Die Physik des Transistors, Disastrous Villa, EBASIC (32k version), Editor fuer definierbare Zeichen, Empire, ExReversic, Extended Copy, Extra-Basic, Fast Food, Genie I II / TRS 80 Cassettenlader, Gorilla, Hektik (alternate), Horror Castle, House of Death, Joker Poker, King, Kniffel, Labyrinth of Fear, Las Vergas Spiel-Automat, Länder-Quiz, Madtree, Mord im Zeppelin, Mysterious Tavern, NODOS 80, Nato Morsing Standard Code, Peng, Primzahlsuche, Real-Compiler, Santa Paravia und Fuimaccio, Schiff des Grauens, Schnick Schnack Schnuck, Screen Editor (incl. Adventure screen), Shift Transformation, Sprite-Editor, Tape-Edit, Trash-Man, Utilities Package Ver. 2.0, Wurm, Zalaga [Dirk Best]
ibm5170: The Final ChessCard [hap]
neogeo: Viewpoint (prototype) [Brian Hargrove]
ngpc: Rockman - Battle & Fighters (Jpn, Demo), Sonic the Hedgehog - Pocket Adventure (World, Oct 22 1999 Prototype) [The Hidden Palace]
pcw: CP/M Plus v1.4 (Swe) work copy [Edström]
pencil2: Treasure Hunt / Le Plongeur a la Recherche du Tresor [silicium.org, David Viens]
specpls3_flop:
- 1943, 3D Pool, 6-Pak Vol 1, The Alkatraz Protection System v 2.2, Answer Back Factfile 500 - General Science, Arcade Muscle, Ball Breaker, Bionic Commando, Chart Attack, Crack Down (Spa), DICE v2.0, Fun School 4 For The Under-5s, G1WVN ZX Pak Term v3.0 Beta Test, Granny's Garden, Hercules - Slayer Of The Damned, Judge Dredd, Lords Of Chaos Expansion Kit One, Lords Of Chaos Expansion Kit One (alt), M3 Unlock, Mercs, Motor Massacre, Navy SEALs, Obliterator (alt), Outcast, Outlet issue 058, Outlet issue 063, Outlet issue 075, Outlet issue 076, Outlet issue 078, Outlet issue 085, Outlet issue 117, Pirate, Platinum, Puffy's Saga, Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Shoot-Out, Skate Crazy, Skate or Die, The Spanish Tutor, The Star Wars Trilogy, Starship Quest + Helvera - Mistress of the Park, Strider, The Sunflower Number Show, Switchblade, SWIV, Tiger Road, Tops and Tails, Ultimate Play The Game: The Collected Works, Winners [Antonio M, Fede Jerez, Gorski, Jaime González Soriano, José Manuel, Marino Arribas, Metalbrain, robcfg, Simon Owen, Syx, Zup, TZX Vault, ICEknight]
- Coin-Op Hits [Dlfrsilver, ICEknight]
- 4 Soccer Simulators (Spa) [Gorski, ZXdenied, ICEknight]
- LC-10 Colour Screen printer v 1.1 (+2a/+3) [Guy Bearman, ICEknight]
vsmile_cart: The Batman - Gotham City Rescue (UK), Disney Aladdin - Il magico mondo di Aladdin (Italy), Disney Topolino - Le Magiche Avventure di Topolino (Italy), Disney's Cinderella - Cinderella's Magic Wishes (UK), Disney's The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Majestic Journey (UK), Disney/Pixar Cars - Rev It Up in Radiator Springs (UK), Disney/Pixar Toy Story 2 - Operation-Rescue Woody! (UK), DreamWorks Shrek - Het Verhaal Van Draakje (Netherlands), Noddy - Detective for a Day (UK), Spider-Man & Friends - Missioni Segrete (Italy), Thomas & Friends - Engines Working Together (UK), Winnie the Pooh e la caccia al miele (Italy) [Walter Agazzi]

Software list items promoted to working

c64_cart: The Final ChessCard (Ger, v0.9/v1.0) [hap]
cd32: Alfred Chicken, Arabian Nights [FakeShemp]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

cd32: Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 5, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 6, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 7, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 8, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 9, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 10, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 11, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 12, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 13, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 14, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 15, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 16, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 17, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 18, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 19, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 20, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 21, Amiga CD32 Gamer - Volume 22 [FakeShemp]
cgenie_cass: Exterminator II: The Mad Menagerie, Super Star Treck [Dirk Best]
ekara_japan_ac: KR-1 Kirarin Cartridge Vol.1 (Japan) (AC0009-KIR) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
gameboy: Game Boy Test Cartridge (Euro, USA) [ClawGrip]
icanguit: Barbie Guitar Party (K9901), Rock 101 (K9906) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
leapfrog_leappad_cart: Disney Princess - Princess Stories (UK), Disney's Pooh Gets Stuck (UK), Leap 1 - Reading - Cartoon Network Scooby-Doo! and the Disappearing Donuts (UK), Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever! (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 1 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 2 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 3 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 4 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 5 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Sed de Saber - Libro 6 - Spanish as a second Language Edition (UK), Toy Story 2 (UK) [TeamEurope]
vsmile_cart: Bob The Builder - Bob's Busy Day (UK), DreamWorks Shrek the Third - Arthur's School Day Adventure (UK), Scooby-Doo! - Funland Frenzy (UK), Scooby-Doo! - Funland Frenzy (UK, Rev. 1?), Thomas & Friends - Engines Working Together (UK, Rev. 1?) [Walter Agazzi]

Source Changes

Added very preliminary Intel 82355 bus master interfaces controller device. [AJR]
miniboy7: Fixed lamp blinking. [AJR]
ti89, ti89t, ti92p, v200: Corrected Flash memory type and size. [AJR]
unidasm: Allow hexadecimal values for -skip with 0x prefix. [AJR]
m68000: Read the initial SP and PC from memory after rather than during machine reset time. [AJR]
- Removes the need for many drivers to reset the CPU an extra time to load the correct vector.
z100 improvements: [AJR]
- Render video through CRTC instead of working around it by caching registers, and map video RAM using PROM module.
- Added 8253 timer and associated interrupt, cursor, video interrupt, and Centronics port.
- Converted keyboard to low-level emulation, and added keyboard click/beep sound.
- Corrected numerous clocks.
m68705: Don’t register debug state entries for non-existent port latches and direction registers. [AJR]
Added Adaptec AIC-565 device. [AJR]
Added preliminary emulation of Toshiba T6963C and related LCD controllers [AJR]
bmcbowl: Added missing video-related interrupt, and re-guessed VIA clock. [AJR]
5clown: Documented how to access the hidden settings table. [AJR]
pk8020.cpp updates: [AJR]
- Emulated programmable logic device used for banked address decoding.
- Improved serial port/USART hookup, added save state support.
z8000: Added save state support. [AJR]
raiden2.cpp, r2dx_v33.cpp: Added sprite RAM buffering (fixes zeroteam starting bikes), and improved sprite sort DMA. [AJR]
polepos.cpp: Added save state support. [AJR]
i186 peripheral register refinements: [AJR]
- Emulated strange but documented behavior of unaligned accesses and byte writes to internal peripheral registers.
- Use more official register mnemonics.
i386: Improved splitting of unaligned accesses (excluding program fetches). [AJR]
at386, at486: Started splitting out and documenting mainboards. [AJR]
Added preliminary emulation of Advanced Storage Concepts ASC-88 SCSI adapter. [AJR, minuszerodegrees.net]
Improved sorting of items for machine input menu. [AJR]
- Inputs of the same type are sorted by name, and keyboard keys are sorted by their assigned character codes (if any).
mc68340: Fixed interrupt vectoring. [AJR]
z80netf: Fixed error in keyboard configuration. [AJR]
tzx_cas.cpp: Pause for 1 ms between data blocks (fixes MT07296). [AmatCoder]
cntsteer.cpp: Added PROM dumps to Counter Steer, and added preliminary color PROM decoding. [Anonymous, Angelo Salese]
Removed unnecessary handler arguments and unnecessary trampoline handlers for many devices and drivers. [cam900]
flkatck.cpp: Clarified 6809 CPU type and corrected clock source. [cam900]
tc0280grd.cpp, atarirle.cpp, tms57002, igs_m027.cpp, cubeqcpu.cpp: Cleaned up code. [cam900]
asic65.cpp, atarigen.cpp, deco_irq.cpp, taitoio.cpp: Suppress read side effects correctly. [cam900]
k033906.cpp: Deferred allocation of registers and RAM until start time. [cam900]
igs017_igs031.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Made palette internal, made PIA tag configurable, and added save state support.
- Improved region and member names.
konmedal.cpp: Fix sound output routing. [cam900]
wswan.cpp: Implemented device_video_interface to obtain screen. [cam900]
dgpix.cpp: Reduced runtime tag map lookups, and restricted drawing to clipping rectangle. [cam900]
cedar_magnet*.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Reduced runtime tag map lookups and deferred frame buffer allocation to start.
- Reduced redundancy and cleaned up code.
igs017.cpp, igs011.cpp, mlanding.cpp: Reduced runtime tag map lookups, and reduced redundancy. [cam900]
taito_helper.cpp, pc080sc.cpp, tc0080vco.cpp: Implemented masked priority. [cam900]
k053246_k053247_k055673.cpp: Reduced redundancy and cleaned up code. [cam900]
overdriv.cpp: Corrected object DMA mapping. [cam900]
1945kiii.cpp: Corrected flicker behavior. [cam900]
deco16ic.cpp: Implemented masked priority. [cam900]
tc0110pcr.cpp: Implemented device_palette_interface. [cam900]
ninjaw.cpp, warriorb.cpp: Split graphics decoding for screens that use different tiles. [cam900]
dec8.cpp: Fixed srdarwin sprite/tilemap priorities. [cam900]
taitoair.cpp, fcombat.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, and reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
taitoio_yoke.cpp: Reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
taito_h.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, reduced redundant code, and reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
taito_o.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Simplified graphics decoding, reduced runtime tag map lookups, and reduced redundant code.
- Corrected metadata for parentj.
blockout.cpp: Converted palette to use a format handler, improved drawing behavior, improved member names, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
galgames.cpp: Added save state support, and suppress side effects correctly. [cam900]
legionna.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, reduced redundancy, and mark tilemaps dirty on bank change. [cam900]
rohga.cpp, taito_x.cpp, klax.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding. [cam900]
tecmosys.cpp: Fixed graphics decoding. [cam900]
gunbustr.cpp, superchs.cpp, undrfire.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, reduced redundancy, reduced runtime tag map lookups, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
alpha68k.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, and fixed sound ROM banking. [cam900]
deckarn.cpp: Simplified configuration, and added a callback for colopriority mapping. [cam900]
groundfx.cpp, rastan.cpp, slapshot.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, reduced runtime tag map lookups, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
xexex.cpp: Add note on audio emulation issue and link to reference. [cam900]
vgmplay.cpp: Fixed volume behavior, and fixed stereo output. [cam900]
limenko.cpp: Cleaned up sprite drawing, and fixed some drawing behavior. [cam900]
decbac06.cpp: Allowed for priority drawing. [cam900]
taito_z.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, eliminated register_postload, and reduced redundancy. [cam900]
namcona1.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Don’t unnecessarily mark all tiles dirty, and set palette when relevant video register is written.
- Correctly suppress read side effects, eliminated register_postload, and simplified graphics decoding.
decmxc06.cpp: Added callback for coloupriority mapping, and simplified configuration. [cam900]
dec0.cpp: Implemented priority drawing. [cam900]
kaneko_tmap.cpp, kaneko_spr.cpp, namco_c355spr.cpp: Internalized graphics decoding. [cam900]
tc0080vco.cpp: Internalized graphics decoding and sprite drawing routines, and simplified configuration. [cam900]
taito_f2.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Reduced runtime tag map lookups.
- Fixed sound program banking.
- Simplified graphics decoding, and reduced redundancy.
namcos2_sprite.cpp: Simplified and corrected graphics select select behavior. [cam900]
namcos2.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding. [cam900]
galastrm.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding. [cam900]
kaneko16.cpp: Corrected buffered sprite RAM behavior. [cam900]
seibucats.cpp, seibuspi.cpp: Simplified graphics decoding, fixed DMA drawing. [cam900]
seibucats.cpp: Separated configuration for machines without tilemaps, and fixed sound routing. [cam900]
pgm.cpp, pgmprot_*.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Restricted sprite drawing to clipping rectangle, and corrected tile region sizes.
- Reduced runtime tag map lookups, correctly suppress read side effects, cleaned up start/reset members, and reduced redundancy.
- Simplified graphics decoding, made class members protected/private as appropriate.
cave.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Separated graphics decoding, palettes and bitmaps for each screen in ppsatan.
- Fixed save states for third tilemap in sailormn.
- Added partial implementation of sprite mixing when multiple chips draw to the same screen.
- Correctly suppress read side effects, and reduced runtime tag map lookups.
segaic16_road.cpp: Simplified configuration, removed hard-coded takes, and suppress read side effects. [cam900]
ms32.cpp, bnstars.cpp, tetrisp2.cpp: Made graphics decoding use native ROM arrangement. [cam900]
viewgfx.cpp: Show palette alpha values in graphics viewer. [cam900]
machine/segaic16.cpp: Moved palette shadow/highlight handling into palette write handler. [cam900]
315_5124.cpp: Added a lookup table with correct levels and added SMS-compatible color mode for 315-5313. [cam900]
315_5313.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Converted to 32-bit direct color drawing, and implemented 3-bit color mode.
- Fixed save states, and fixed external palette mode.
mega32x.cpp: Implemented device_palette_interface, and converted to use color lookup. [cam900]
sknsspr.cpp: Added link to reference video for jchan. [cam900]
jchan.cpp: Corrected sprite delay, and reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
jalblend.cpp: Moved alpha table into palette, and improved behavior. [cam900]
dreamwld.cpp: Corrected video RAM data type, and converted line RAM to memory share. [cam900]
stvvdp2.cpp: Fixed blending when tilemap transparency pen is disabled, and improved transparency behaviour. [cam900]
stvvdp1.cpp: Fixed transparency, Gouraud shading and end-code behavior, fixed sprite limit. [cam900]
avgdvg.cpp: Removed hard-coded absolute tags, and reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
omegrace.cpp: Correctly suppress read side effects. [cam900]
audio/jaguar.cpp: Correctly derive serial timer rate from DSP clock speed. [cam900]
jaguar.cpp updates: [cam900]
- Removed banked ROM from memory map for 68EC020 games that lack it (fixes crash).
- Added palette device for pre-calculated YCC lookup.
- Derive GPU timer rates from current clock frequency.
igs022.cpp: Reduced hard-coded absolute tags and runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
momoko.cpp: Reduced runtime tag map lookups. [cam900]
rebound.cpp: Added performance hint. [Couriersud]
Netlist library updates: [Couriersud]
- Added power terminals to most logic devices, removing the assumption that the negative supply rail is connected to ground.
- Added additional validation checks and addressed issues identified.
- Added validation support to nltool.
- Changed from numeric to alphabetical identifiers for logic components within a package.
- Added ability to enable runtime performance statistics via an environment variable or command-line option.
- Changed netlist parsing code to explicitly set locale.
- Fixed a memory leak in plib when a constructor throws an exception.
- Added option to disable queue statistics at compile time, and prevented queue statistics from being printed when disabled.
- Moved the 7448 truth table implementation into the macro file, and added power terminals.
- Made nltool -v --version display valued of compile-time options.
- Added example using state in truth tables to implement a J-K type flip-flop.
- Changed 9316 to use an output array.
pong.cpp updates: [Couriersud]
- Increased horizontal resolution for pong and pongf to improve alignment of graphical elements.
- Fixed breakout SLOW_BUT_ACCURATE mode.
tutankham.cpp: Implemented star field, and improved colors. [Couriersud, Guru]
- Konami 084 and bootleg star fields are implemented, selectable in machine configuration.
- Colors are now based on galaxian, giving a better approximation.
c64 updates: [Curt Coder]
- Added BusCard IEEE-488/Centronics interface cartridge device, and added skeleton BusCard II cartridge device.
- Added enhanced disassembly for zero page locations and Kernal vectors.
- Route LORAM to expansion port interface for BusCard.
abc80: Added skeleton Owoco Super Smartaid device. [Curt Coder, Anders Sandahl]
c64: Added Westfalia Technica 1541 clone ROM. [Curt Coder, dec_hl]
cosmac: Fixed long branch instruction timing. [Curt Coder]
c1541: Added ROMs for a number of 1541 clones. [Curt Coder]
TV Game work in progress: [David Haywood]
- Continued work on newer µ'nSP CPU cores and GCM394 system-on-a-chip (used by smartfp and wrlshunt).
- Started documenting GCM394 video register locations based on code analysis.
- Started implementing GCM394 video DMA and sprite drawing.
cgenie updates: [Dirk Best]
- Fixed color RAM accesses.
- Confirmed floppy drive controller type and crystal, and added more DOS versions as BIOS options.
- Re-organized software lists.
vtech1: Fixed cassette input polarity. [Dirk Best]
multi16 updates: [Dirk Best]
- Corrected metadata, and added notes including a list of models.
- Added PIT, floppy drive controller, and floppy drives.
- Corrected CRT controller type to HD6845, added raw screen parameters, and added 3-bit RGB palette.
splus.cpp: Fixed segmentation fault on starting spset005, spset015, and spset026. [Dirk Best]
hotblock: Hooked up I²C EEPROM. [Dirk Best]
315_5649.cpp: Set I/O lines to input on reset (fixes MT07315). [Dirk Best]
punchout: Use generic graphics decoding layouts. [Dirk Best]
pzletime.cpp: Split static and dynamic palettes, and changed screen update function to use direct RGB color. [Dirk Best]
quizo.cpp updates: [Dirk Best]
- Cleaned up ROM banking, cleaned up video RAM banking, and converted screen update function to use direct RGB color.
- Changed clocks to use crystal values, added second coin input, and documented more DIP switches.
flopimg.h: Uncluttered the global namespace. [Edström]
pcw.xml: Added Swedish CP/M v1.04 – adds Swedish keyboard mapping and error messages. [Edström]
force68k.cpp: Made latest firmware the default, and started work on internal layout for CPU-1. [Edström]
6850acia.cpp: Silenced verbose logging by default. [Edström]
diablo1300 updates: [Edström]
- Added new microcode and table ROM, and started looking at a callback interface.
- Fixed conditional jump JNC and table ROM offset from XLAT instruction.
screen.cpp: Fixed screen_device::update_now() when drawing partial lines, and changed pixel accessors to use current screen bitmap. [Enik Land]
Lua engine: Exposed machine flags, and corrected and expanded documentation comments. [feos]
Add DS1994 1-wire real-time clock/backup RAM device, and hooked it up to Amatic Multi Game systems. [Grull Osgo]
by35.cpp sound improvements: [hackbar]
- Added support for Bally AS3022, Sounds Plus, Sounds Good and Cheap Squeak sound boards.
- Converted AS8888 sound system to a proper device.
- Refactored and cleaned up code.
m6800: Fixed a bug where 6801 interrupt is never triggered. [hackbar]
Added an auto-fire plugin with more flexibility than the built-in auto-fire feature. [Jack Li]
galaga.cpp: Replaced star field lookup table with Galois LFSR implementation. [Jindřich Makovička, Wolfgang Scherr, Couriersud]
X11 lightgun support improvements: [Kiall Mac Innes]
- Changed build options to include X11 XInput support by default.
- Added documentation for lightgun configuration on Linux.
- Disabled Wii Remote lightgun hack by default.
mazerbla.cpp: Fixed inadvertent palette size reduction. [MASH]
Added new NCR 5380 device to arcade sub-target build. [MASH]
i960: Implemented logr and expr opcodes (used by Power Sled). [MetalliC]
sharc: Implemented compute_fcopysign. [MetalliC]
chihiro.cpp: Updated satellite DVD documentation. [MetalliC]
tms9901 updates: [Michael Zapf]
- Changed input line reading from 8-bit units to single bits
- Fixed decrementer so it continues counting even when initial value is zero.
- Ensure INT3 input is disabled when clock is enabled.
sam6883: Mirror 32K RAM in 64K mode (fixes segmentation fault when Dunjunz checks for 32/64K). [Nigel Barnes]
bbc: Added ATPL AutoPrommer and User Port Splitter devices, and implemented PMS Genie ROM device. [Nigel Barnes]
coco12.cpp: Added handlers for CTS region $C000-$FEFF, allowing cartridges to implement devices in this region. [Nigel Barnes]
dragon.cpp updates: [Nigel Barnes]
- Fixed cursor keys in natural keyboard mode.
- Added support for Premier Sprites board.
coco2: Converted all coco/dragon extension devices to use CTS handlers. [Nigel Barnes]
mu50: Improved emulation, and added SWP00 device. [O. Galibert]
m680x0: Converted code generator to Python and refactored. [O. Galibert]
Fixed drivers that depended on RAM auto-sharing in preparation for its removal. [O. Galibert]
vsnes.cpp: Re-implemented bootlegs’ Z80 interfacing according to schematics (still doesn’t work). [R. Belmont, Kevin Horton]
apple2: Fixed long hang on SCSI Card boot when a CD-ROM is present with no disc inserted. [R. Belmont]
mac.cpp: Fixed missing audio for SE and Classic. [R. Belmont]
8080bw.cpp: Added sound to Invader's Revenge. [Robbbert, Andrew Welburn]
- Sound ROM dump for invrvngegw is bad.
jr100.cpp: Fixed speaker, got rid of superfluous beeper, fixed cassette save, and added notes about the CPU. [Robbbert]
h8.cpp: Fixed cassette, added reset button, and promoted machine to working. [Robbbert]
lola8a.cpp: Added missing keys, and promoted machine to working. [Robbbert]
poly880: Fixed booting sequence, machine now starts correctly. [Robbbert]
mc6847.cpp: Added PAL color artifact emulation. [robcfg]
goldnpkr.cpp: Fixed inputs, added default non-volatile RAM contents and added button lamps for potnpkrj. [Roberto Fresca]
miniboy7.cpp updates: [Roberto Fresca]
- Fixed button lamp order.
- Documented PIA input multiplexing.
- Added support for Super Mini-Boy.
Added basic SGI GIO slot device support to the Indy and Indigo² drivers. [Ryan Holtz]
SGI Newport graphics updates: [Ryan Holtz]
- Converted to GIO slot card device, with 8-bit XL and 24-bit XL versions.
- Added support for 4 bits per pixel RGB frame buffer display.
- Added dithering support, and fixed shaded rendering mode.
- Added several modes used by Metero Blast demo.
- Added support for Scr2Scr Block transfers on planes other than RGB/CI (fixes pop-up menus).
- Added support for single-pixel line iteration.
- Added a few more command configurations (fixes SceneView, albeit with glitches).
- Fixed start_y advancement to handle moving up, and fixed span-mode Z-patterning.
- Added 12 and 24 bits per pixel RGB frame buffer modes.
- Fixed host data port readback behavior.
- Added 4, 12 and 32 bits per pixel host read support.
- Fixed color fetching in RGB mode.
- Added 12 bits per pixel dithering.
- Removed unnecessary parameters from various functions.
- Fixed fast-clear color packing, and fixed splatting of packed color fractions.
- Added alpha blending support.
- Re-implemented integer-line and added correct fractional-line support based on pseudocode in SGI REX3 docs.
- Fixed off-by-one in Length32 handling.
- Fixed erroneous advancing of start_y when in span mode.
- Added 12-bit CI mode to frame buffer readout.
- Added basic (untested) overlay/underlay support.
- Added Length32 flag handling to line drawing.
- Unified command handling – should function better and faster as a result.
- Fixed fast-clear mode.
- Base visible area and screen size on actual timing parameters.
- Fixed video RAM tests and several fast-clear bugs.
- Improved handling of COLORHOST mode bit.
- Fixed pixel format conversion on HOSTRW access.
sgi_mc: Fixed fill-mode DMA not advancing memory address. [Ryan Holtz]
Added skeleton device for SGI VINO (Video In, No Out) chip. [Ryan Holtz]
SGI HPC3 updates: [Ryan Holtz]
- Added intstat register and DAC volume controls.
- Split into Indy (Guinness) and Indigo² (Full House) versions.
- Fixed second SCSI controller handling in Full House mode.
- Fixed serial EEPROM hookup – Indigo² now plays its boot tune.
- Fixed several SGI IDE tests.
SGI IOC2 updates: [Ryan Holtz]
- Fixed mappable interrupt checks – fixes IRIX 6.5 installer hanging on keyboard input.
- Fixed System ID register handling – Indy and Indigo² are now properly identified.
r4000: Added bus error functionality. [Ryan Holtz]
ec1840: Added separate motherboard device, and promoted to working. [shattered]
MISP3 DRC: Fixed TLB miss when fetching instruction in branch delay slot. [Ted Green]
Added read/write support for OS-9 disk images. [Tim Lindner]
Corrected sector interleaving for JVC disk image format. [Tim Lindner]
coco_multi.cpp: Call ROM update handler if Multi-Pak switch is changed. [Tim Lindner]
Added AMD/Plessey 2812 FIFO device. [Vas Crabb]
Added IBGR 4444 format to palette_device. [Vas Crabb]
Added support for encrypted MP3 audio on Konami System 573 Digital I/O systems: [Windy Fairy]
- Added minimp3 MP3 decoding library as a temporary solution until MAME’s implementation is available.
- Added high-level emulation of decryption and playback.
apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Added 109 cleanly cracked software titles. [4am, Firehawke]
apple2_flop_orig.xml: Added 41 original software dumps. [4am, Firehawke]
segahang.cpp: Verified ROM labels for the Hang-On (ride-on) set. [Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union]
bus/a800: Added dumps of Atari 800 floppy controller ROMs. [Atari Age]
konamim2.cpp: Re-dumped totlvica CD-ROM. [AWBACON / Video Game Esoterica]
bublbobl.cpp: Re-dumped graphics ROMs for sboblboblf set. [Bonky0013]
oneshot.cpp: Corrected clocks for CPU and audio components. [caius, The Dumping Union]
mosaic.cpp: Decapped and dumped PIC microcontroller for mosaic. [Caps0ff, caius, The Dumping Union]
by35.cpp: Added DIP switch names for Bally Frontier, and fixed incorrect DIP switch labels for a number of machines. [d e]
wpc_95.cpp: Fixed typo in afm outputs. [d e]
castool: Use first argument as command name in usage message. [Dan Church]
msx: Added alternate ROM version Yamaha SFG05 sound cartridge. [David Viens]
lb186: Added RAM Disk BIOS. [Don Maslin Archive]
naomi.cpp: Brute forced DES key for Sega Yonin Uchi Mahjong MJ. [f205v]
seta.cpp: Improved PCB documentation for Crazy Fight. [Guru]
m68000: Fixed MMU problem preventing Domain/OS from working without breaking Mac system software. [Hans Ostermeyer]
3c505: fixed Apollo DIP switch labels. [Hans Ostermeyer]
z100: Dumped 8041 keyboard controller program. [Herb Johnson]
specpls3_flop.xml: Improved and corrected metadata. [ICEknight]
ti85.cpp: Corrected OS version numbers for the CE calculators. [Julian Lachniet]
hiscore.dat: Updated for latest changes to MAME. [Leezer]
at.cpp: Added additional BIOS versions for at, at386sx, at386 and at486. [rfka01, minuszerodegrees.net]
Moved Commodore PC-I from pc.cpp to compc.cpp, and added a BIOS version that runs. [rfka01]
genpc.cpp: Added additional BIOS versions for pc. [rfka01]
at.cpp: Added 8742 keyboard controller dump. [rfka01]
clickstart.cpp: Added note about the keyboard microcontroller. [Sean Riddle]
cromptons.cpp: Added timekeeper dump for ffruits. [SpinalFeyd, The Dumping Union]

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