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To: broken_cookie who wrote (34325)	1/28/1998 10:44:00 AM
From: Kevin	Respond to of 58727

Hi Richard, how are you? >>>200DMA -- is that a simple or exponential closing aveage? <<< I am using a simple moving average. >>> I know you have the god of all information tools; I'm just trying to reconcile the parameters.<<< Would you believe that the 'god of all information tools' will not give me a 200-DMA exponentially? I can only choose 1 - 100 periods. To come closest to a 200-DMA, I would have to choose weekly and enter 40 periods (200 business days / 5). >>>BB -- Do you use 2.5 or 2.0 standard deviations for all BB's? And, if you know, which is usually more followed. I use 2.0 annd that would explain the difference between the numbers.<<< For 9-day I use 1.5, for 20-day I use 2.0, and for 50-day I use 2.5 Using these combinations has proven to work well for me. I'd like to know if anyone else uses different paramaters or the same...just curious. >>> I hope you and everyone else continues to post ideas for consideration. I remember a few days ago when consideration of MSFT puts was being tossed around.<<< Arghhh. Don't get me started on ideas about MSFT. Here's what I said to Sal on Jan 16 when MSFT was 132+ : "MSFT...been good block buying over the last 3 months. 'Long term' target (may take 2 months to pan out) is $145. Target for next week or so: $138. " There's a coulda woulda shoulda. This should be a wake up call for me to listen to my upside MF targets more often! Damn! >>>I enjoyed the big option trade and MF ideas of the day segment. If you have the time and inclination, please continue<<< MF ideas shouldn't be a problem. The unusal option activity ideas are very time consuming. I'll try to do them, but doubt you'll see them very often... Talk to you later!