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Strategies & Market Trends : Ask Vendit Off-Topic Questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (4364)	1/29/2005 12:33:37 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8752

I think he's right, your scans are very good. But the real lesson here is that it pays to align yourself with the overall market trend. It would be interesting to analyze this in some detail. But my gut level feeling is that the long scans do not do very well when the short-term market trend is down, and conversely, the short list doesn't do very well when the trend is up. So, deciding which way the short term market trend is going should be very helpful in deciding which setups might offer the best risk/reward profiles. T