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To: KymarFye who wrote (70687)	2/28/2001 12:16:27 AM
From: bobby beara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

kymar, i would support an LG book on t/a, as long as u and i get to write the preface and intrduction and introduce the nicole bottom -g- but i have to disagree on the riteness or wrongness in drawing trendlines, or any other t/a, this crap is not quantifiable, does not allow itself to be easily quantified, and requires a david e. kelley or stephen speilberg, as much as a supercomputer.

To: KymarFye who wrote (70687)	2/28/2001 9:00:54 AM
From: HairBall	Respond to of 99985

KymarFye: OT My research efforts are scattered about in various ringed notebooks. Some packed away in a storage unit, most of which has no value except as failed efforts at optimization and or failed theories. I have never set down all of what I do in a concise outline. I started to answer an email one time about a specific question on how I was doing something and before I knew it I was up to a few pages in the reply. It is not easy putting into words what I have been doing instinctively for many years now. However, it started out as a mapped out system, I just no longer need the map. I was fortunate to start using the Dow Jones Market Analyzer Plus software in the mid eighties. The software for Dow Jones was written by RTR Software originally located in El Paso Texas. RTR also offered what was considered a companion package to DJMAPlus at the time called Technifilter Plus. Between the two packages there was little I could not do. Both packages included the math for all the formulas and allowed you to alter existing formulas or write any formula you could imagine on your own and plot any chart you could imagine. TFPlus allowed you to optimize formulas by taking different portions of the formula (at the same time) and inserting variables. You could specify a range of variable for each portion of the formula you wanted to test. After running the test you were given a report for each test revealing profit/loss. Literally thousand of combinations could be tested at one time. I was also fortunate that the President of RTR Software, Clay Burch was not only a very nice person, but he was competent and accessible. He worked with me to over come a few bugs in the software at the time. Of course, running the test in those days took my DOS based computers hours and hours to perform. Being an old ex karate and kick boxer competitor, I learned a long time ago, don't get fancy, stick with the basics if you want to win. I consider what I do sticking to the basics albeit altered basics. It gets a little complicated when you combine the altered basics and it take some effort to learn to interpret them in combination both when projecting and in real time. EDIT: I also learned with my optimization test, nothing works 100 percent of the time. The best way is to combine a few successful indicators. Regards, LG