Hi Folks.

I sending this out in case it applies to you.  If not, you can disregard.

Late last week my computer all but crashed.  It slowed to a crawl and I could not get hardly any of my programs to function.  I poked around and noticed that my 185 gig hard drive was completely full.  The night before I had almost 110 gigs of available space.  I got in touch with Bob den Beste after my feeble attempts to figure out what went wrong failed, and he pointed me towards a program called  Folder Sizes (www.foldersizes.com).  They had a free 15 day trial, so I downloaded them (after deleting some stuff off my hard drive to make some room) and ran a search.

Turns out one of my MT4 platforms had auto-updated the night before and deposited a 116 gig file into my Terminal, which did not show up when I did my earlier visual scan of my folder trees.  I'm guessing it was not intentional and that some kind of file corruption took place, but if you find yourself running into any similar kinds of problems, first look to your platforms to see if you can spot an abnormally large file, and if not, I highly recommend Folder Sizes.  I think you can buy a personal license for $24 or something like that, and it is well worth it just to be able to find and eliminate files  you no longer need and which are taking up huge amounts of space. 

A couple of weeks ago I began demoing NinjaTrader, which has been around a long time but not as many people use it as MT4 (mostly because MT4 is free and NinjaTrader has had a steep price tag attached).

I've been speaking with some of the guys I know at various brokers, and have learned NinjaTrader will be releasing version 8 in the next few weeks and plan on making it available for free to forex brokers.  I for one can hardly wait because I am sick to death of all the MT4 Build 600 and beyond problems I've been dealing with since the first of the year.   

If you are already using NinjaTrader, you might find this helpful:  I ran across some Renko guys already entrenched in NinjaTrader who are offering a 7 day trial of their Renko scalping system for $1.  I got to test drive it last week and it's not bad at all.  But it's scalping, so just  be ready to exit after getting up a few pips.  I know not many of you use NT, but for those who do, jump over there and take a look and see if it is something that might be of interest.

Here is the link:  http://iscalper.info/secure/aff/go/glenellis  

This is ONLY for the NinjaTrader platform.  If you don't have NinjaTrader, don't bother clicking the link because it will not work with any other platform, and that includes MT4.    

And if you want a fast and easy way to clean up any file issues you might be having, most definitely take a look at the Folder Sizes program.  It saved me from a lot of grief and it might just do the same for you.

Jeff