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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ta_Bo who wrote (14708)	11/17/2001 1:54:32 PM
From: TFF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

With the decreased volatility in small issues, traders seem to have switched focus: 1) Many daytraders have moved to professional firms doing hedging, arbitrage, etc. with large amounts of leverage. 2) Trading index futures.Here again the use of leverage is a major factor. 3) Sympathy plays on large cap stocks, QQQ's, etc. 4) The bulk of the crowd has left the game. The intraday news plays have been few and far between for many months but these seem to be popping up once again with the recent hype surrounding security and biotech warfare. The recent bounce in the market has revived the intraday movement of beaten down mid/small cap techs and I suspect this group should be tradeable for the next few weeks at least. After that who knows...

To: Ta_Bo who wrote (14708)	11/17/2001 4:09:12 PM
From: MKT_entropy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

Bo, in re your post on the T/A board, would you like to expand a bit on the way you set stop loss points in your new way of longer-time-frame trading? What do you base them on: resistance levels? volatility? a mix of two or more? At what level? Do you use moving stops? Do you take parts of the trade off the table as it moves well in your direction? Also, do you have a link to "The Reminiscences' on line? That would be fun, to have it always at my fingertips. <G> Regards, M_e