WELCOME To the DIS (TA56) threads. Here is some information for you.
This welcome was written by our "staff reporter" Ivan Solotaroff for all of you who need help navigating our TA56 threads. When we need something written "write", we ask Ivan to do it for us. Thank you Ivan.
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Welcome to the library of the DIS threads. It was made necessary by the number of visits to the following two threads, and by the large amount of information and opinion generated on them.
The "TA56" thread is Subject 15770 .
"Trading in and out," which became necessary when the 56 thread reached overload, is Subject 16392. As you will see, the mood is open and friendly. That may or may not have something to do with some large gains the threads have generated in a short period.
DIS is the first of many perplexing acronyms you will find below. (Included in the Library is a collection of such acronyms and heiroglyphs and their purported meanings.) Three posters, whom you will also find repeatedly below, comprise DIS:
D is for Doug R. He is a technician, i.e., a chartist--everything from High Tight Flags to Fibonacci Retracements. In addition to these standard charting tools, formuale, and indicators, he has developed a scoring system, often referred to as The Blender, which has a way of picking stocks ready to pop. When blender candidates score above 50, they are said to have "attitude." Doug began the TA56 thread in early July '97 with an appeal for "blender candidates," which are still more than welcomed. Each post presenting/discussing a candidate should begin with the call letters of the stock. It makes navigation less hellish.
I is for Instock, an exhaustive analyst, stock-finder, and information gatherer. Long before newcomers to the 56 threads make/lose their first dime here, they will learn to merge with Instock's singular approach to the English language/spelling, to filter out the irrational exuberance he develops for certain equities, and to get to the root of his comments. Doug has. So has:
Sergio, a prolific poster, analyst, and news-gatherer. Questions/comments pertaining to the nature of these companies whose call letters we tend to abstract and fixate on go to Sergio.You'll hear back soon enough. If he takes a shine to a stock, he tends to have the CFO on the phone within a few hours. Then we all get to share.
A collection of their posts below are labeled DOUG IS TA56, INFO, and REPORTS. Below, you will also get to know such individuals as Jim Strauss, Cary of California, Myron, Radar, Andy Steele. You will also hear quite a bit about some sauces that Joanie is beginning a cottage industry with. Peg is the one who makes it all possible to follow.
Each Monday, DIS issues its POW, or Pick of the Week, such as RECY, MTON, or CADE. POWs come with studies of the company's fundamentals, recent activities, technical outlook, and Doug's visual take on the chart. The library contains (or will soon contain) all previous POW studies, as well as updates, which tend to come a few weeks after the initial pick.
The threads welcome all manner of lurkers, shorters, novices, noisome contrarians, etc. Chest-beating types with for-sale services, hype-meisters from the pump-and-dump threads, boiler-room scum, et alia, have a nice way of disappearing quickly or never showing up here. They're welcome to try, but they'll be known soon enough. The only rules, if any can be said to apply, are; Keep it concise, Don't misreport facts (it just makes Sergio work harder), and Begin all posts with the symbol of the stock you want to discuss.
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