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To: Scumbria who wrote (115625)	6/12/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

Scumbria, TA is very good, in retrospect. If you can see the complete shape of the graph, it is easy to describe. Lol

To: Scumbria who wrote (115625)	6/12/2000 5:18:00 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

Scumbria, exactly. I never see any rigorous measurements of the predictive ability of any of these TA models. ( I use 'model' in the generous sense, since most of these methods are so ill-defined as to prevent any quantitative assessment.) On the other hand, to the extent that some chunk of traders believe in any particular model, it may actually wield some influence. I find this either disturbing or amusing... I'm not sure which. Perhaps TA is just a giant book/seminar-selling racket? Or maybe it's more Cramer-like, where the authors are actually doing the opposite to what they recommend, thereby exploiting their followers-- hey, sounds like organized religion! But I'm beginning to run on... and I'll have offended too many people if I continue. Doug