Ah Mongo, such a wonderful description of how us traders live. Watching the screen for the symptoms you mention is exactly what we do.
Have you not described the modern equivalent of Armstrong's "reading the tape"?
The only difference I can see is the number of traders and methods for reading the tape are far more.
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