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Strategies & Market Trends : VOLTAIRE'S PORCH-MODERATED -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RocketMan who wrote (1353)	9/14/2000 7:03:05 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

RM.....re sheep weighing half a ton.....damn big sheep my friend........leg o lamb could feed a everyone on the Porch AND their Kissin cousins...( do they Still make those..)<g> .... dont forget the mint jelly...bring a bucketful T

To: RocketMan who wrote (1353)	9/14/2000 8:36:19 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Rocket Man, thanks for the retort. I can't tell you how happy I am to have someone almost to a T, describe the infrastructure of the market that has been so influential in my thinking toward the HOUSES. Your ASSUMPTION about vastness of the markets and possible doubt as to their ability to be manipulated is in fact the answer to my CONTENTION. It is my CONTENTION that the vastness of a market no matter it's product is a controlling factor only in the LONG run but is a moot point in the short run. I contend it is THE POINT OF EXCHANGE whether it be product or information of such markets as opposed to how large a market might be that determines the prices of such vast markets. One example I might use is the Oil Markets. If one thinks about it, the day to day fluctuations are controlled or can be controlled almost exclusively at the MAIN POINT OF EXCHANGE. Whether we want to admit it or not Saudi Arabia is the main point of exchange when it comes to oil even if it is in the form of agenda serving info or the shutting down of a valve or two. No one doubts the vastness of the markets but just the slightest word or action at the main point of exchange can have monumental repercussions ON A SHORT TERM BASIS. Same with the major Houses. Over a long period there is very little influence but short term they can weak havoc and this is where the small investor has to understand these dynamics or they can be ruined time and time again. The markets are vast but the point of exchange is relatively small and the PSYCHOLOGICAL SPICKETS can be turned on at will and more often that not they are. Just musing, Voltaire