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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PaperChase who wrote (67573)	9/13/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Simba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

PC: My free ISPs are: freei.net freepc.com altavista.com netzero.com All of them ask for "personal" info. freepc.com offered me free ISP after I registered for their famous free PC deal sometime back. They emailed me saying that I was not selected in the first round of PC giveaways, but asked me to try their free ISP. freei is only available in the WA state area. Netzero has the slowest service, you connect quick but then the service is slow. freei is very good and they show local Ads. For a national service altavista service is fast; they will ask you to click on Ads every 30 minutes or so just to pay their bills. Freepc.com has the largest ad banner of the four and also has good service. I thought altavista and netzero were quite light on the "personal" info side. They ask about your age, income bracket, rent or own house, hobbies, interests and if you bought any on the net and if so what categories. If you are a very active day trader where every second counts, I would also keep a limited-time service for under 10 bucks a month in addition to these free ISPs. I don't trade that vigorously, maybe a few trades a month and this suits me fine. BTW, MB said that he does not use TA (Tech Analysis) in his stock picks. Do you use it ? I kind of assumed you do see the charts and used TA, otherwise how would you explain buying MU based on their sorry balance sheet and fundamentals. My experience is that a combination of TA and FA works best for small time investors in the short to intermediate time frame. Long term FA will only matter. I was surprised MB would not use TA when he seems to do a lot of options trading where time is an important parameter. He may have deep pockets where he can out last a current trend I guess. Most big brokerages invest quite heavily on the TA types like Ralph Acampora and Dick McCabe and guess they would not do so if it returned nothing. I maybe wrong. Phew, that was a long note ! Simba