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Strategies & Market Trends : Technical analysis for shorts & longs
SPY 680.28-0.5%Dec 1 4:00 PM EST

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To: Tom Trader who wrote (16416)6/6/1998 4:06:00 PM
From: j g cordes  Read Replies (1) of 68490
 
Tom, the answer which occured to me while reading your post.. " I have found that the system, works with futures markets, but produces
inconsistent results with different stocks. Never been able to figure out why this is so.."


Stocks respond in a more stairstep fashion to news and company events... they have winning/losing moments followed by flatter trends between events.

With an index of many stocks the winning/losing moments don't all occur at the same time, individual stock events are spread into the flatter trends of other stocks, thus in aggregate they provide a more consistent base to analyze moving averages and other indicators with.

Jim
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