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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (53184)	5/19/2001 5:41:54 PM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

ED: "The above statements seem to be contradictory. Please clarify" Did you want me to clarify your confusion, or explain the actual lack of confusion between those two statements? I will save you the bother of answering and provide both clarifications. Please disregard whichever answer you didn't ask for. First, I will restructure the statements and fill in implicit context so that there is no possibility of confusion, even for you. CSCO is volatile, and unpredictable in long term bias. The volatility produces an opportunity to profit through swing trades, which profit could be vastly superior to long or short positions. However, if you are going to be trading swings, there are better stocks than CSCO: higher intraday volatility (dollar per dollar) and/or more deterministic bias to the RMS trend. Given a choice between different vehicles for the same purpose, smarter people would choose the better vehicles and avoid the inferior ones. Professional day traders please feel free to jump in and provide further clarity on this point. Maybe some examples would help. To clarify your confusion, the statements appear contradictory to you. They aren't (see above). I don't know why they appear contradictory to you (they shouldn't) so I am afraid I won't be as helpful as you might have hoped. If I was forced to have an opinion however, it would be that your confusion is because your ability to reason is flawed, your grasp of the obvious is tenuous, and your capacity for deduction is limited. Either that, or perhaps the basic facts connecting the statements (see above) were beyond your understanding. I hope that clears things up. John.