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To: Kurthend who wrote (10480)	11/22/1997 12:08:00 PM
From: fut_trade	Respond to of 12298

Blocks of APM traded on 11/21/97 9:42 18 7/16 22,800 OPEN 12:34 18 15,000 12:59 17 15/16 64,500 13:15 17 15/16 10,000 13:21 18 64,500 13:52 17 7/8 103,700 14:36 17 5/8 39,200 15:59 17 3/4 1,000 CLOSE Peter

To: Kurthend who wrote (10480)	11/22/1997 3:44:00 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12298

Hi Kurt, I'm usually sitting in front of the computer watching trade size and last trade in real time so I can usually tell if the action is going more toward bid or ask. Generally the large blocks are prearranged and don't move the market, but are a good indication of longer term trends. What really moves the price short term is the 1K trades. I'm not a SOES player but it is something I'm looking into. From what I understand those guys consider two minutes to be a long term investment and play a stock in both directions long and short. I think a lot of the volitility and large short interest in APM could very well be a result of this type of very short term play. When those guys jump in on a short term trend, the movement can be pretty sharp for a few days. It really depends on your time frame which way to invest and what indicators to look at. 10 seconds or 10 years? I don't know of a site off hand that will give block trades and if they were buy or sell orders. I'm pretty sure there is such a thing but I haven't done much research in that area, since I normally have the information anyway. You could try financialweb.com go toward the lower middle of the page change the daily chart to 1 minute. The tall spikes are large trades and you should be able to tell from the MA line if it was a buy or sell. Hope that helps a little bit anyway. Good luck. Regards, Don