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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jill who wrote (4446)	7/31/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: chaz	Respond to of 54805

Jill: I don't think we can blame volatility on 5,000 day traders. They don't generally move the market, they react to it, perhaps the lucky ones anticipate it by microseconds. The institutions are another matter. Their purchases and sales are larger, usually seen only after the fact, and are often (it seems to me) initiated based on prior information. They're also schizo....how many times have you seen ABC selling an issue while CBA buys? If both had the same information, would you see this? A further question: Is there greater volatility today than (say) 10 years ago? Today's gorillas were once far more volatile than now, but as they've become agreed giants, they've settled relative to the wannabe's that are most treacherous. And, there are more of them now than 10 years ago, more shares in the market, more investor participants, more shares trading daily. In tech, there's more profit opportunity, so more profit taking. In the Beta SI, you can go to Market Insight and make charts with up to seven stocks. It's real easy. You can do similar things at Quicken, and my favorite, Big Charts.