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To: Hawk who wrote (5793)	2/5/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

I see you use contrarian principles as part of your approach to the market. Unfortunately people confuse contrarian based approaches to the markets with the that of always making decisions contrary to the crowd. This gets many investors in trouble. IMO the important thing here to understand is that the crowd is right in a trend, and is wrong at both ends of the trend. During a trend, it is not wise to fade the crowd. At the ends of a trend is where it is prudent to go contrary to the crowd, not during a trend. So in this perspective, I agree with your contrarian observation. Matter of fact, if everyone was bullish right now, I would be concerned. Bob Graham

To: Hawk who wrote (5793)	2/5/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Chris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

sometimes, i dont who to be contrary against? <gg> i follow ta on iqbal and donald sew and they are the best.. actually, the i was contrarian vs. the kahuna thread.. they were calling for the top while my weekly signals were turning buy.. i knew top was non-existant. pretty interesting stuff.. psychological aspects of the mkt... at least i've controlled my emotions in trading.. (you dont know how long that took!).. by looking at things longer-term, it has helped.