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To: SE who wrote (41619)	11/29/2000 9:34:59 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 44573

I haven't done it, today. I suppose you mean how do I do it usually. At the moment I'll have to answer in a bit; Seems I bought the JY Dec instead of the JY March.... Telephone, be right back.

To: SE who wrote (41619)	11/29/2000 9:57:39 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

What is a "W2"? Also, according to my data 9/27/98 was a Sunday. Man, I just have bad luck with the Yen. Put in an order to Buy the Dec. Yen at a limit way above the market, because I forgot to change the symbol to March from Dec. So they filled me, WAY above the market. The market was 90^73 and I was filled at 91^73, $1250 away. By the time I got that straightened out (Fill at 90^73), the market moved higher to 90^80 and I sold limit at ^79 and escaped with 6 cents profit.....Big Wow. Then got into the March well below my Limit, getting filled at 92^13. Sheesh. I should stay away from the Yen, it's like Chinese to me....... ---------- How did you do it, when you were actively searching? So, what I do is key on different things depending on the day of the week. If it's Monday then I rely a lot on prior week patterns plus the cycle day and week and so on. If it's mid week I rely more on prior days patterns plus cycle day, et cetera. Then I may look at seasonal stuff in another scan; I may scan it two, three, four different ways until I get a sense that there is something that stands out prevalently. A day like today I would give more "weight" to the cycle day/week plus prior pattern matches. So doing a fast scan right now, without looking at anything more subjective I come up with the most likely scenario to be up into mid-day then down. A lesser possibility is a day that patterns straight up, like 9/18/91 But most likely days like 7/24/91 3/30/94 6/19/96 8/13/97 Thin potential for a day like 10/7/98