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To: Ed Pittman who wrote (10646)	11/30/1997 6:38:00 PM
From: kas1	Respond to of 94695

yeah, another interesting one is "freedom of movement," where you draw rectangles, with height being price move and width being volume. shape of boxes supposedly shows you volatility trends. speaking of volatility, did bill & the rest of you check out the article titled "vix and psychics" (or something like that) in the current issue of barron's?

To: Ed Pittman who wrote (10646)	11/30/1997 10:43:00 PM
From: Slide Rule	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

Ed, you can plot daily price-vol data using Excel or any charting program. Format it as a scatter plot, with points connected. Type in your data daily -or- clipboard it in from a site that gives tabular values. Set up the graph so that new points are in the graphed area when you re-calc. About 10-30 points is all that my eye can take in on this type of plot. Given the above commotion, manual plots likely are better for this analysis; would give you time to think what's going on with each stock. Simpler, too, unless you do a bunch or want pretty printed output. I plotted a stock I follow, and found only vague circular patterns over past six months. Curious what are some of the stocks giving the circles you mentioned. Circles imply that volume leads price, or visa-versa.