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To: Sniper who wrote (993)	11/16/1997 3:55:00 PM
From: TFF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Sniper: >>>>Hey Bill, rule#1- Never use a market order! congrats, you just failed! I guess I fail as well. I often use market orders. For me it depends on the situation, I believe there are many ways to trade in many different situations. Here's to getting the price you ask for every time! Cheers!

To: Sniper who wrote (993)	11/16/1997 3:59:00 PM
From: William H Huebl	Respond to of 12617

Hi Snipe, We are in a different league... INTERDAY for me, not intraday! For example, my 3 picks are PG, IOM and BUD for calls tomorrow... short term moves to be over by Thursday. I have learned through tens of thousands of dollar losses that you pick an option with some volume and a risk reward of 1:16 with a certaintude (if there is such a thing or word) of > 85% and you can make money. Maybe "track record" would be a better word substitution for certaintude. But I frequently DO use a limit order to get in and sometimes a limit to get out. It just depends on how fast the markets are. See my post to Joan on what I use to check the markets. I use my ProFormer series indicators and the new DTI (Blau, again) indicators to pick the option stock. Regards, Bill

To: Sniper who wrote (993)	11/16/1997 7:40:00 PM
From: ojai	Respond to of 12617

Sniper- I'm checking out ATFI with their trial period, and was wondering if you use Preferred for trading, ATFI's recommended broker. I am currently with Datek, and have to use limit orders, and I was hoping to find better executions with Preferred, allowing me to use market orders on occasion. I know the good and bad with market/limit orders, and I feel the choice depends on the situation. But market orders with Datek can be suicide, thus my search for a more effecient broker. Also, I'm trying to decide how much of ATFI's service to buy. I have everything they offer for the trial period, but I'm not convinced that it is all vital, besides being a lot to look at all at once. It's all I can do to keep track of 3-4 stocks at a time, with the level 2, and I can't watch the news updates at the same time with any degree of accuracy. I also like the advanced charting, but there are sites that provide charting for free. Any comments on your experience would be appreciated. Tim

To: Sniper who wrote (993)	11/20/1997 1:20:00 PM
From: Michael C. Woodward	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Bollinger bands . . . . Stochastics I started trading in June and made a killing through September. Then got killed in October. That's when I knew that I didn't know s - - - about investing. I am doing a lot of research about investing now. I have been told that TA's are the way to go. My question is how do you do Bollinger and Stochastics on companies? Is there a service that you can subscribe to for this information? Is there software that you can buy, or do you have to gather the data yourself?