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To: StockHawk who wrote (8020)	10/11/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 54805

Re TA I read the Hulbert piece when it came out. But it seemed to refer to a TA-based trading strategy, which would suffer from the defects of all trading strategies--commissions, taxes on realized capital gains, truncated upsides, etc. What I would be interested in, I guess, is more of a short-term timing perspective: something that would offer advice to someone who says, "I've decided to buy GMST soon because it's a great company with a great future, but I'd like to pay as little as possible and thus get as many shares as possible. So when, exactly, should I buy in?" I've read a lot of Jim Willie's colorful posts on this subject, but I remain unconvinced about whether there are empirically tested, intellectually sound rules-of-thumb that one can apply in this regard. tekboy@youasked.com