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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (2657)	11/19/2000 11:22:10 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 6710

Later that evening I looked at Island and a lot of stocks had sold off afterhours. I don't know where to find a chart for afterhours selling or any other kind of record to see whether it started dropping at 4:20 or earlier or later. Do you? Quote.com had [and maybe still does] a feature called Live Charts...20 minute delayed, but the link I have is broke. You can probably find it as easily as I can. If nothing else it is handy to have to intraday trading. I remember Live Charts did cover after hours trading; I don't recall if it covered pre-market. An aside of extended hours trading, it's really a wild market, the liquidity is so low that there is typically a lot of volatility based on emotion or perceived emotion. For example, if you watch after-hours trading on an equity that releases earning after the close [assuming the equity meets or slightly exceeds] the equity will immediately pop and the fall until the conference call starts. If you listen to the CC you can watch the pops or drops immediately associated with positive or negative statements...the better way to play afterhours is as a contrarian, let the up emotion peak and sell into it or let the down emotion peak and buy into it. It's a fairly reliable tactic. But reserve the plays for only high liquidity issues. The buyers and sellers are not there in low liquidity plays. I rarely play in extended hours trading [though I did so this week with AMAT successfully] the liquidity typically isn't there. Regards, jttmab