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Technology Stocks : VALENCE TECHNOLOGY (VLNC)

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To: Pallisard who wrote (15755)11/5/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: I. N. Vester  Read Replies (2) of 27311
 
BS indicator seems to be quantifying negative
posts (at least that's how i read the vague
description).

It makes a lot of sense that there is a high
correlation between price getting pushed down
and negative posts appearing. But BSI is probably
confusing cause and effect. i.e. not that negative
posting causes the price to fade (although it may
not be without influence), but rather that the
price going down allows all the shorts to come
out and twist and shout 'i told you so'. As usual
they will ask longs to prove a negative such as
'if the product is so good, and production is working
why doesn't the stock go up'?

But nothing proves that the posters are paid
touts of the money on the short side. Could also
be that they are just fixated on their belief
that they know more than the longs, and when the
stock goes down they like to come around and puff
themselves up.

It's the so-called Cockroach effect: in summer they
come out in droves. This does not prove that the
cockroaches cause summer to occur, nor that they
are paid touts of the dept of sanitation.
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