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Technology Stocks : Semi-Equips - Buy when BLOOD is running in the streets!
LRCX 159.13-4.4%Nov 11 3:59 PM EST

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To: Jess Beltz who wrote (7227)11/1/1998 8:28:00 PM
From: blake_paterson  Read Replies (1) of 10921
 
Hello Jess (re: BTB):

I've been kicking this dog (issue) incessantly for the past 2 weeks, so I thought I'd chime in :) Posted this on the AMAT thread this PM:

<<G:

Spent some time today pondering the 2nd derivative of the BTB slope question that was posed on the Blood thread. Looking at KLAC, the last upturn (Oct - Dec 96)came after billings were increasing and BTB was >1. So both first and second order equations were positive when the stock price jumped. Didn't have a chance to look at AMAT, but my mind (fuzzy as it is) recalls the same. Not that history is supposed to repeat itself, but....

BP>>

If you look at the September numbers, the data to support your conclusion is "grayer." For front end orders, one could suggest that the 2nd order derivative has not quite reached an inflection point yet. All of this in dramatic contradistinction to the last go around.

Missed them in the 20's and wondering about the 30's...

Regards,

BP

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