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Strategies & Market Trends : Befriend the Trend Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dr. Stoxx who wrote (6819)	5/7/2000 3:21:00 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39683

TC, Impressive results to say the least. The question that naturally comes to mind is what are you using as buy and sell indicators? Dan

To: Dr. Stoxx who wrote (6819)	5/8/2000 8:14:00 PM
From: Dr. Stoxx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39683

DIGL UPDATE: 200 shares traded on a $5800 margin account Opening buy-and-hold price on 4/3/2000: 57.75 Note: trades 1-12 are backtested 1. Short: 57.75 to 57.125 = $105 2. Long: 57.125 to 64 = $1355 3. Short: 64 to 66.25 = ($470) 4. Long: 66.25 to 68 = $330 5. Short: 68 to 36.5 = $6280...a monster trade! 6. Long: 36.5 to 32 = ($920) 7. Short: 32 to 36.75 = ($970) 8. Long: 36.75 to 54.5 = $3530 9. Short: 54.5 to 44.125 = $2055 10. Long: 44.125 to 68.75 = $4905 11. Short: 68.75 to 61 = $1530 12. Long: 61 to 65.25 = $830 13. Short: 65.25 to....(this is a real money trade; actually entered at 63.75 1 day after signal was given, but for the sake of continuity we'll call the entry at the point of the signal) Total profit for portfolio = $18,560...un-bloody-believable! (331% in one month!) Buy-and-hold = 13% profit