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To: DiViT who wrote (230)2/24/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: Maya  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 324
 
This is techie too! Go here to figure. You can better Rarebird at his own game!
dorseywright.com



To: DiViT who wrote (230)2/24/1998 3:39:00 PM
From: Stoctrash  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 324
 
P&F is an "Ancient" charting technique. I believe Charles Dow aka "Mr. Dow Jones" used this stuff or invented it. Anyway, X's are for up and O's are for down plots or "boxes". "Box" is the common term used for the individual X or O's.

You only make another X or O if the price moves, time is not factored into this charting other than for reference sake. A box is drawn if a stock moves more than $.50 for stocks under $20. Over $20 and you use $1 box size, over $100 and most use $2 per box. Usually a 3 box reversal system is used to shift from plotting X's to O's or vice versa. A group of X's and O's and then back to X's shows at what level a stock is forming short term peak, bottom and then reversal. Several swings from X's to O's and back show where a consolidation is forming.

Now what does this tell us about C-Dog?

1)A big consolidation has taken place between 18-22

2)A close above 22.50 would obviously be bullish and cause more X's to be added to the current row. I believe a 19.50 trade would be needed to start drawing O's and turn CUBE bearish in P&F terms.

3)Short term: CUBE is bullish because X's are the last column.

Trendlines, Triangle charting formations can also be used with P&F charts. Its not perfect or fool proof, but it does show you a bare bones plot of where the price activity has been and at what levels trends may change, supports might be found, and resistance levels could be established.

scobey-point-figure.com
This is the site I use to get some of my P&F charts
(more charts than at Dorsey Wright and way cheaper)
Tell him Fred sent ya for a free trial.

How'd I do?




To: DiViT who wrote (230)3/31/1998 9:17:00 AM
From: Maya  Respond to of 324
 
Intel chip Celeron's woes (Latin celer=> speed)
biz.yahoo.com
New Intel chip for cheap PCs trails rivals-report

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (Reuters) - A new, much-anticipated chip developed by Intel Corp. (INTC -
news) aimed at the sub-$1,000 PC market is not as fast running applications as its clone competitors, according
to tests performed by computer magazine PC World.

The chip, called Celeron, is expected to be launched on April 15, but PC World said it obtained a pre-production
personal computer with a Celeron chip running at a speed of 266 megahertz.

''PC World completed the first road tests of the processor, which indicate that Intel's rivals are still ahead in both
price and performance,'' PC World said in a statement.

Bill Snyder, senior news editor at PC World, said that while the chip runs at its expected speed of 266 megahertz,
its performance running software applications is slower than the performance of rival chips developed by
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD - news) and National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM - news) unit Cyrix
Corp.

''The thing is pretty slow,'' Snyder said. ''There is no doubt in my mind that ... why it's slow is because of the lack
of secondary cache. Take away the secondary cache and you get a big hit to performance.''

Intel has said that Celeron will have no L2 or level two cache, which is a reserved section of the chip for storing
memory, in order to make a chip that can address the low-cost computing market.

PC World said it tested the chip running applications such as Microsoft Corp [Nasdaq:MSFT - news].'s
MSFT.O Excel spreadsheet program; Microsoft Word, its word processing program; the Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheet, made by International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM - news) Lotus Development Corp.; Lotus
word processing program WordPro; and a few other business applications.

''We don't know what the magazine has in terms of a test system,'' said Intel spokesman Howard High. ''What
we have seen historically -- if you look back at other chips like Klamath and others -- a number of publications
get pre-production products, and when the real product comes out, they wind up having to recant and reposition
their words.''

PC World wrote in its article in the May issue that the chip was close to the final version but that sources close to
Intel said the final version of the chip may offer slightly better performance.

''Nevertheless, PC vendors privately express little enthusiasm over the new chip's performance,'' PC World said.

PC World wrote that Celeron fails to live up to its name, which comes from the Latin word ''celer,'' meaning
speed. PC World, a monthly computer magazine published in San Francisco, said it has a circulation of over 1.1
million.