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To: EepOpp who wrote (2025)	8/7/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 3536

I'm glad you could appreciate my humor, as for me telling people what I really think, hmmm to understand what I see and really think comes from certain investitures only understood by living them, so my deeper thoughts defy normal explanation, and even in my best esoteric style they would still only be understood by some one who knows what it's like to have lived in the belly of a whale. No amount of study and reading of books can train the minds eye to see reality <G> --------------------- Being your words were so kind I'l share one of my newer inventions with you, but you won't fully understand it till you use it. As an exercise create a , Dollar Volume Index of the market , or part of it, where stocks are weighted by the volume of dollars traded and not market cap. It's Price X volume = weight, then track the most active stocks on a regular basis. It is my invention , & if you do it right you will be startled to find out how well it works. Take any index and use the same stocks, sort and reweight them as to Dollar volume traded, ( over several time periods if you wish ) but 3 months works fairly good. Such an index takes regular weighting adjustments to stay up to date with changes, but a running 3 month average Price X volume will get you started. It exposes all the market internals of any index in one swoop. It's rather simple, maybe to simple for the over size brains they have at Princeton, yet it's a quantum leap to short term market timing over anything the old school experts have ever managed to come up with. I refer to it as a WDVTI ( Weighted Dollar Volume Traded Index ) or just DVI Jim