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@number6
easiest way i found to learn the track stand was - ride up a hill very slowly until you almost stop then swivel the front wheel to change your forward back wards motion to side to side - motion .
you don't need a fixed if you point front wheel up hill
-i think it's it's easier to let gravity go one way and you push the other. (as opposed to using one pedal to balance one way way and the other pedal the do the other way )
on fixed you can track stand anywhere - but with freewheel (or v. slack chain ) you need to point uphill (only slightly)
this minging pic actually shows good basic technique:
http://blog.americancyclery.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/tornado-track-stand1.jpg
there is definitely a side you feel more comfortable. but you can just reverse.
cranks horizotal, front wheel swiveled same way as front foot.
and very importantly and often missed, frame is tipped over and onto the front leg and then the inner thigh of the front leg braces against the top tube and actually does quite a bit off the fine tuning.
notice also the give in the ankles - use your ankle flex to give fine adjustment - not stomping down with full thigh strength
it's not the only way but i think it's the easiest.
i'd also practice with flat pedals until you're good.
i can do it and have never found any really useful application of the track stand in the real world except to show off! in fact quite often to recover I've had to jump forward somewhere i didn't really want to be - in junction - in middle of road etc.