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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (6188)	10/10/2002 1:08:42 PM
From: paulj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Yes, the down market and moderately up economy (at least based on the numbers out so far) would indicate the economic news will be ugly out 6-9 months from now. The market will have made a bottom and moved up quite a bit by the time the economy finds a bottom. I'm hoping we'll get a choppy but upward move in the market. That would give us a much healthier move than we've had in earlier moves. Good trading market, both long and short. BTW, what do you use to track your trades and do all the lot matching, etc.? I used to get that from my brokerage, but all that has gone away with the changes in the brokerage industry. I kept the data in Excel and that works but it is a pain. I switched an account to a brokerage who has downloads to Quicken this year, went out and got a copy of Quicken, and that seemed to be OK, though the reports are worthless. Now I find Quicken has no data integrity in it's capital gain calculations, as it has made 3 major errors that not only made the numbers for the trades inaccurate, but had no offset anywhere, so the total capital gain number is also wrong. Looks like I'm going to move this account's data back to Excel, unless I can find something that actually works. In my frustration, I actually considered writing some code to do this, but that's a pain too.