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

To: Les H who wrote (1162)	8/27/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2103

Hi Les: I noticed about the same, and the ones I put into my DVI seem to signal upturns better than down turns. My guess is because they are popular and seem to outdo the index over time and give up less on down turns. The key seems to be in their volume, the change in their volume is more noticeable than if I'm looking at the broad market. My problem is at times I try to out guess my own DVI instead of waiting for it to tell me. I anticipated the profit taking 2 days early so I went in the USPIX to soon and had to hedge it off , now I'm both long and short and sort of kicking my butt for jumping the gun. If I am going to use the DVI to give me early signals and I try to out guess it then I'm defeating my own indicator. I've done this twice and both times I had to hedge off , hence I missed the move and by the time I unwind with the extra expense I'm back at square one waiting on the next move and it makes me feel silly. I do all this work to track the dollars traded & then I try to guess on a reversal before I see it..that's no good. Jim