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To: Andrew G. who wrote (6264)	3/18/2001 3:55:48 PM
From: TheStockStalker	Respond to of 8925

Contributing to the volume was short selling and automated day trading programs. Do you really think that the shorts sellers have just now decided to show up? And that program trading did not start until we broke 2000? We have been here all along. And I can honestly say that my short selling activities (which are large when compared to retail trading) are slowing down here just a bit because of certain signs of desperation I am seeing in the investor crowd and because of the strength I am seeing in the intraday squeezes. I think the big volume is more of a function of scared investors like you finally giving up and throwing in the towel on investments because they are once again looking at the fundamentals. The fundamental were great when the market tanked (new paradigm) and the fundamentals will still be bad when it turns up again. How about this is where the boldest money has been shorting and scalping I always thought the bottom was where the boldest and smartest money BOUGHT the market. Also, consider that no chart foretells the future. Past patterns are not repeated identically Well I thought that was the whole purpose of my post and the chart. To show that the conventional thinking on how this is supposed to end is flawed and to offer a new way to look at it. we live in a different time and circumstances than other recessions Uh Oh.... Sounds like the crowd is starting to think there is something "different" again about where we are right now. Probably the same crowd that embraced the New Paradigm at the market top. The biggest losers will see at the bottom whenever that is. PDT