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To: Clappy who wrote (12171)	4/11/2000 4:55:00 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Does the SI "Ignore This Person" button not work? I don't understand why JW has to censored because of the words he was writing. When I was 5 or 6 I learned that Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but names (or words) will never hurt me. I don't understand why the SI Police feel it is necessary to put Jim behind bars. I'm more offended by people who take cheap shots at him while he has no ability to defend himself... I'm not trying to take sides here because I love all the wonderful characters on this porch. However, I've yet to experience a letter or word pop off my monitor and hit me in the eye. Unlike Yahoo, SI has the ability to ignore people who irritate you. It is a wonderful feature. I've yet to use it, but if I ever felt so strongly opposed to a person, I would rather opt for that than call the SI Police. Jim Willie, if you still have the ability to PM, send me your replies and I'll post them for you. Other wise e-mail me at claptonsguitar@yahoo.com. Again, I'm not taking sides. Just trying to make things even. I'm friends with you all except the SI Police. Police the NY City subway system, not a friggin' message board. geesh... -FirstAmmendmentMan

To: Clappy who wrote (12171)	4/11/2000 5:01:00 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Hi clappy, I appreciate the info and I am sure the thread does to. v

To: Clappy who wrote (12171)	4/11/2000 5:16:00 PM
From: herringbone_100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

not to butt in or anything, but i always view the thompson thing with caution... read the post below... Talk : Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading \| Previous \| Next \| Respond \| To: LastShadow (21471 ) From: AlienTech Monday, Sep 13 1999 8:56PM ET Reply # of 21474 SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT! The Autex Scam alert! scum sucking oinks oinks oinks! Institutional Sell indicators? Thompson I-Watch indicators: Several things you need to know: (1) The primary driver for their graph comes from Autex, A Thompson Financial Services Product - (2) Autex is an intra-broker advertising system. It allows Broker/Dealers to indicate Buy or Sell "advertisements" to other Autex owners. (3) They ARE NOT firm bids or offers like they are in Instinet. They are only advertisements of interest. (4) The advertiser, if they want, can show bids/offers of over 50,000 shares in a separate window called "Supers". (5) MANY firms use Autex as a smoke screen. IF I was a size seller I may post a size BUYER to determine if other sellers are outside of me. When other sellers call me I could just say sorry that's an old message. I cleaned up my buy side a few minutes ago. Then I sell like Hell knowing another large seller is out there also. (6) MANY firms use AUTEX as a means to drum up business. On a Up day buyers are looking for stock. I could post in Autex as a seller, almost guaranteeing a call (even though I have no stock to sell). I tell the caller "I just cleaned up my seller. He's been reloading at 50,000 per clip. Let me work your order for a few minutes and get ahold of my seller". Then you shop the order like hell all over Wall Street and try to find a seller. Its called "getting involved" on the street. (7) Note that large Sell interests (Supers) were indicated again and again and the stock kept going up. this tells me somebody was posting as a size seller to fish out an order and that a large seller probably never existed. These are just my observations. Autex is NOT a firm Bid/Offer system. It is my experience that 70+% of the "advertisements" are actually people either fishing or actually working in the opposite direction of their advertisement and trying to find the competition. I would take the I-Watch data with a BIG grain of salt. I would go so far as to use it as a contra indicator. When it shows large sell, I would guess that 60-70% of the time it is actually better to buy. Also note that ALL of the indications are institutional. No retail order flow is advertised on Autex. Just for Information :) Eagleye