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To: ild who wrote (67774)	8/9/2006 11:17:52 AM
From: ild	Respond to of 110194

advice on charting service needed -- trotsky, 10:54:56 08/09/06 Wed to all t/a guys here: 2 questions. 1. i currently use quote.com live-charts for stuff my broker doesn't provide me with intra-day, such as e.g. intra-day p/c ratio charts, intra-day futures charts, the SnP PREM, and a few other things. what i'm trying to find out is if there is another service that i could replace quote.com with. i.e., something that provides the same info at a roughly similar price. quote.com isn't terribly reliable and doesn't allow me to use the same subscription on two or more PCs in a network. since it's coming up for subscription renewal i thought i'd look around for a suitable replacement. 2. what i ALSO need is a charting software for after hours analysis that is easy on the eyes, has a userfriendly interface, is up-to-date with the most important t/a studies and allows me to insert annotations, as well as creating GIF or JPEG files of my annotated charts for uploading. it's also important that it incorporates a widely cast net of data feeds - for instance, i'd love to have more obscure data such as charts of credit spreads, credit default swap indices and the like, if possible. anyone have suggestions, please let me know. 2-point@charts -- trotsky, 10:36:36 08/09/06 Wed with 'fibo grid' i meant the division of the distance into 61.8%, 50%, 38.2% levels - these are standard fibs (i.e., they are arrived at by division of numbers from the fibo sequence). anyway, i do think i understand now - first comes the lattice, then comes the calculation of the fibs based on the targets indicated by the lattice. btw., the symmetry you have pointed out in those charts is amazing. i wouldn't be terribly surprised if things continued to play out that way, i.e. if the HUI continued to follow the symmetrical path indicated by the lattice. well, lettuce see, as they say. :) @PMU -- trotsky, 09:57:35 08/09/06 Wed PMU has gone essentially nowhere for quite some time now, but with today's move we have a mini-break-out over the recent resistance at 0.80. the near term target for this break-out, should it be sustained, is 0.95. @GSS -- trotsky, 09:41:30 08/09/06 Wed for once it was NOT a mistake to hang on to it into earnings. however, it needs to be noted that the quarter wasn't any great shakes operationally, just as suspected. luckily a little bit of financial maneuvering produced headline earnings, which is what the attention-deficit markets of today focus on. nevertheless, the outlook for the operational performance in coming quarters remains very good, with only the exact timing still uncertain (often a new plant needs to be 'broken in' before it works as advertized). Raja -- trotsky, 22:05:25 08/08/06 Tue consuming a lot of energy is per se not an 'offense'. it mainly proves that the country in question enjoys a high standard of living. imo the offense is that the lands that produce the energy are considered pawns in a political power game, a totally unnecessary strategy. the Arabs and Persians can't eat their oil after all. they are quite willing to sell it to all bidders, ergo there is no need for coercion and bully tactics. this strategy, which mainly results in the by now well-known 'blow-back' effect while doing basically f*ck-all to enhance the mythical 'energy security' is in essence a scheme to defraud the tax cows on the behalf of arms producers et al. it also gives small-minded moronic politician-parasites a sense of power and self-importance - the combination of idiocy and hubris that is so characteristic of today's 'political leaders' (who collectively strike me as probably having escaped from a loonie bin - not that i would want to insult the loonie bins). HK@shakeup -- trotsky, 21:51:08 08/08/06 Tue "...couldn't happen to a better bunch who like dropping white phosphorus ordinance on wommen and children where there is no Hezbollah infrastructure." what else would they do? they don't know where the Hizballah infrastructure IS! they also don't know where its fighters are, where its weapons are, or anything else for that matter. it's not that i have any special insight into Israel's intelligence capabilities - i conclude the above simply from the fact that they're bombing EVERYTHING in Lebanon. you don't do that when you have 'precision munitions' and KNOW where your enemy and his assets are. furthermore, the counter-strikes by the guerilla army have not diminished to any discernible degree, rather the opposite - which goes to show that while 'everything' has been shred quite effectively by the bombing, the avowed targets of the bombing have escaped largely unharmed. this is a sort of reverse 6-day war...the Israelis are losing the war astonishingly fast. 'losing' has to be applied in a loose sense here - in the guerilla war sense. the attacking nation state loses by NOT winning. sort of like the US experience in Vietnam or Iraq....neither war was 'lost' in the traditional sense, but they were lost nonetheless (i hope no-one has any illusions left about Iraq at this stage - the only remaining question w.r.t. that adventure is actually how much more blood and treasure will be poured down the drain before the inevitable conclusion is reached).