To: Monty Lenard who wrote (33404 ) 3/27/2002 9:58:27 PM From: TechTrader42 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 52237 Speaking of market direction, Monty, what are your McClellan charts saying presently? A serious question. I'm not surprised by all the disputes lately. The volatile market leaves nerves frayed. "Nerve is nerves controlled," Dickson Watts said. There's a lot of trading wisdom in that little line. Being right all the time is difficult enough for blind prophets. This market makes it doubly difficult for them, since there seem to be dozens of them on every street corner. It's hard for them to get any attention. They have to yell over each other to be heard. The bear market seems to have turned them all loose, like specters roaming a burned-out landscape. When the market turns especially volatile or unpredictable, and their own threads turn into wastelands of disinterest, they descend on all the other threads they can find. As for their favorite topic, whether the market's bouncing ball is going up or down, I don't know why there are so many stupid arguments about it. Laughable really. I've been banned from the market direction thread, incidentally, even though I haven't posted there. A shame, since I wanted to point out an important grammatical error. It's hard for a guru to be convincingly smug, I think, when one's making mincemeat of the language. Generally, I don't care about such things, but we should hold the supercilious to a higher standard. But since the thread is so remarkably illuminating, what with the direct links to briefing.com and all, I anticipated the likely response (from Emily Dickinson): "When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar is an impertinence."