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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (70780)	10/21/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Heinz, I think the major trading institutions disagree with you as to whether increased volatility increases short term profit potentials or not. Apparently, for them it has brought increased risk and not enough reward, to the extent that some of them are folding the trading tents altogether (as mentioned in the Economist article that I earlier referenced). As for retail daytraders, given that business at the on line brokerage houses is dwindling, I suspect that not too many of them are making a lot of profit by exploiting market volatility either. As for what is behind the volatility, human emotions do not occur in a void. Information (or experience, history etc. if you will), present and past, shapes human emotions. -BGR.