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

To: abstract who wrote (21622)	12/2/2000 10:18:37 PM
From: Voltaire	Respond to of 65232

Hi Ab, LMAO, thanks for not asking me. BTW - you were right in a lot of ways about what you asked me at the Porch Party, you saw things others did not. cheers, Volts the right brain

To: abstract who wrote (21622)	12/2/2000 10:20:49 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

I don't know what a logarhythmic trader is either, but I suspect that market neutral is someone who trades bull or bear based on t.a....not that t.a. predicts, nothing can predict, but it shows setups that once it moves in a certain direction on strong volume, allow one to make $. Just turn a bull chart upside down and you get a bear chart. Same rules apply only in reverse. Those who have no bias in approaching the market trade long and short as conditions allow. Some people have made a ton of $ doing that the last 3 months, they are utterly euphoric about it. They short stuff until its oversold and then go long on it. They have no affiliation to a stock going in any particular direction

To: abstract who wrote (21622)	12/3/2000 12:09:38 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 65232

no clue on logarithmic trading only what logarithmic scale of stock chart sorry, jim

To: abstract who wrote (21622)	12/3/2000 10:02:39 AM
From: horsegirl48	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

One reason that logarithmic scale graphs ar r value in security analysis is that acceleration and deceletaion in the % rate of quarterly earnings increases can be seen very clearly on a log graph. They show % changes accurately, for example a 100% stock price increase from 10 to $20 a share would show the same space change as a 50% increase from 20 to 30 a share on an arithmetically scaled chart. A log graph, howerver would show the 100% increase as twice as large as the 50% increase. Analysts who recommans stocks because of an absolute level of earnings expected can be looking at the wrong facts. A stock that earned $5 a share and expects $6 the next year can be misleading unless you know the previous trend in the % rate of earnings change.To say a stock is undervalued or over because of pe is usually wrong. Take the latest quartly earnings per share add them to the prior 3 quarters earnings of a co. and plot the amounts on a logarithmic scale graph. the plotting in the best co. put the earnings per share close to or already at new highs Huh?