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Strategies & Market Trends : Jim's Nasdaq100 Special as a basket. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matthew L. Jones who wrote (1114)	8/20/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2103

Matt; I just compare it to the regular index, and wait for a good divergence. I'm an old advocate of "born losers are those who have to bet every race." I'v made a lot of post on it techstocks.com ----------- Several people have made up their own and one of them has real time feeds and does a running chart, I'm still inporting data into a spread sheet, but have paper portfolios of the most active in the NDX , XLF and SPX , they rely on delayed quotes and I have to re-weight them from time to time. Being I'm looking for a substantial divergence the delayed quotes don't hurt that much. The best set up is when you catch the Dollar Volume Index falling or going up while the market cap index is doing the opposite. I named my portfolios "runners" like SPXRUNNERS NDXRUNERS XLFRUNERS Like when it changes, or if I do ( SPXRUNNERS / SPX ) and it is falling or gaining fast that triggers a bet. It's taking some getting use to, so far I've been conservative and passed up a few bets , but it hasn't put me on the wrong side of even one. There was one day I had doubts but held on and even doubled down & sure enough she came my way. Today it was just so so , slightly negative but not enough for me to want to bet on. Jim