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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (121853)	8/6/2000 4:43:51 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573954

Bill, RE:"Seriously, I have never found any credible explanation for any aspect of TA, other that herd mentailty. This means it is pure and simple manipulation so the manipulators can take their positions, sure in their belief that the herd will act as told and make them a profit. Sure some herd people see through and position themselves alongside the manipulators and make money, but by and large herds go to slaughter." You certainly have a different way of looking at it. TA has nothing to do with manipulation. It's just analysis based on price movement which is very psycologically based. Naysayers seem to say it has no predictive power. I think they are looking for tomorrows lotto numbers today... Predicting the future has to be based on probabilities by default...you look at the past and present and make a guess about the future...same as fundamental analysis. General market works the same way...you look at more hikes and the past tells you the economy will slow... Then again.... If fundamentals of say AMD were all that is needed to predict it's price then why is the stock not on a beeline to the sky? SO you use all the tools at your disposal. Jim Jim

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (121853)	8/6/2000 4:46:58 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573954

This means it is pure and simple manipulation so the manipulators can take their positions, sure in their belief that the herd will act as told and make them a profit. Bill, excellent characterization. Monty, who so vehemently protested the posting of an older post of his on this thread, has now become a frequent author on that same thread, and on the very same topic. Could it be that he is trying to make a herd of its readers? Al