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

To: CatLady who wrote (8062)	6/5/2000 6:31:00 PM
From: Mike E.	Respond to of 39683

Congrats Mike, your post made it to SI's home page as one of "today's cool posts" ! Thanks for pointing it out, because I seldom go to the home page of SI - usually just straight to my bookmarks! I'm honored. Must have been a slow day! <g> Who the heck picks those things out anyway? Mike

To: CatLady who wrote (8062)	6/6/2000 12:20:00 AM
From: Dave Bissett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39683

CL - As a follow-up to my earlier note to you, I've noticed on backtests with Metastock EOD that it often appears useful to use different parameters for long and short trades. If you have the time sometime you might check this out with intra-day data. Use OPT 1 & 2 in the Enter Long, Close Long statements, and OPT 3 & 4 in the Enter Short, Close Short statements for MA crossovers. I think the improved results are because the dynamics of up vs. down trends are different, and by using different rules for each type of trade the "system" allows for the option of being out of the market sometimes. If you look at this I'd sure be interested in what you find. Dave