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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (12575)	1/1/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Hi Bill: One of my concerns about SI is the willingness of people to provide investment advice. I know you and I have told people that we are not financial advisors. I respect you for doing that and I have followed your lead. There are quite a few of us that provide our opinions on this thread. I read yours, as well as everyone else's, and find them to be useful whether I agree or disagree. I genuinely like the posters on this thread. Unlike some other threads that I have seen, our posters are polite and thoughtful. I would be happy to provide whatever help I can as my past posts have indicated. However, I hope we can continue to walk the thin line between assistance and opinion and advice. By the way, after I finally figured out where our profiles were, I did add information to mine. It only took me about 2 months to figure it out.

To: William H Huebl who wrote (12575)	1/1/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill- Since they're centavos, I'll give you three! I'd avoid market direction as a theme, as I believe it is not predictable. Two areas for which I have thought of starting threads are: 1) sector rotation strategy, and 2) risk management. We cannot, IMO, time the market, but we can manage risk. These ideas are probably too restrictive for a general thread like BK, however. HNY, Larry

To: William H Huebl who wrote (12575)	1/1/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Barbara Barry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill, I checked out the VGY. What is your view? Looks like a positive trend until maybe Tues????I would love to know more about this indicator. HNY BB

To: William H Huebl who wrote (12575)	1/1/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: kas1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill, I don't know if my request for this thread being a "beacon of light" during downswings is incorporated into your summary? In any case, another suggestion, brought to my mind by the popularity of the predictions table I posted, is to discuss making money with numbers. That is, all of the folks on this thread seem to know what a bivariate corr or an sdev is... even more know about esoteric ta indicators... and we are therefore at a distinct advantage to most of the general population. How can some of these methods help us, and why? My experience is more in "orthodox" statistics rather than in ta, so I find it interesting to take price and sentiment data and play with it, do creative things to try to predict the future. Can we discuss this stuff -- the frontiers of our personal quantitative forecasting -- here? I know that you, Bill, always explain your newest indicators and the like, but perhaps I'd like more in-depth explanation of your indicators, what they are, why they are supposed to work, etc, as ta is for the most part black magic to me.