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To: Investor2 who wrote (39695)	10/29/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: peter n matzke	Respond to of 44573

I2, it will depend somewhat on the markets you are trading (stocks, commodities etc). Use a long simple moving average on a short period bar chart, either 5 min or 10 min. If you do some studies using the slope of an MACD, you will see that going flat or short in hot up markets is more profitable than waiting for a normal reversal signal. The same is true as well in icy cold down markets. Note that the same increment on a larger period bar chart does not appear the same. ie 300 sma with 10 min bars is not the same as a 25 sma on a 120 min chart. regards peter