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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HandsOn who wrote (45729)	1/18/2001 8:05:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57584

LOL! Thanks, Hands. I was just trying to intimidate the interviewer into not misquoting me. LOL! But it didn't work. LOL. . >sigh< Now I have to make a few comments to set the record straight. . .so I don't get any more mail asking why "I want to get out." MOMENTUM trading and DAYtrading. . . that is what "I want to get out" of. . . . I'd love to not make 40 or 50 trades each day. . . .and I do plan on taking that down to about 5 or 10 one day. . . but over the past few weeks, that tech bubble just keeps getting bigger and bigger and once again we're doubling our money on trades that last just a few days. . . so what's a displaced Yankee to do? You should have heard my wife reading that article. "You didn't say that!" she yells, shooting holes into one line after another. And I must say, for the sake of forcing that tired old angle, "market gurus", they completely missed the more obvious, much larger and FAR more important picture of what it is we have been doing here every single trading day for over 2 years. Oops! Skew your view long enough and your eyes go bad. And no, I am not walking away from trading to "cash in" anything. . . I am taking exactly what we have here to the next level. [I wonder if that is tough to understand, or just makes it harder to write cynical wisecracks. . .] And yes, as of mid-December when the article was written, I ceased all MOMENTUM trading. . . .due to "lids" being placed on MOMENTUM Daytrades before they pop for 500 or 1000 percent per day, like they used to do. "Looking back at the era when stocks went up a few points a day. . . blah blah blah. . .HUH? ? ? What era was THAT? I was talking about BAMM, TUNE [LDIG], SIEB, etc. that went up several hundred percent per day. I guess I tend to talk faster than interviewers type. My official comment on the article? "I am very thankful for the opportunity!" Anyway, to better answer your question. . . . on any given Saturday you will find me looking exactly like that. . .running off to one type of shoot or another. . .lately "match shoots", where I use a 40 power scope and 36" long stainless steel barrel to blow the center clean out of a target at 55 feet. Any sport or activity which requires total immersion of the mind works wonders toward hitting my "reset" button. The harder I work, the harder I have to play. And I do work hard. . .>VBG< You know all about relaxation, Hands. Well, thanks for letting me get a few of those comments off my chest. I'd hoped they would have used one of the photos with my Golden Labrador. Now THERE is a pretty face! >g< Thanks again, Rande Is