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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Helios who wrote (12749)	2/28/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: sepku	Respond to of 77400

>>>Now take Style Pts who both practices an ema strategy and likes the stock yet I gather from his posts that he did not manage to trade on those dates that you site.<<< Actually, I had been day/position trading ASND (and CSCC before it) between 2/97 and 10/98 with great success. I had been using much shorter EMA trendline combinations (ex. 7,14,21), which I believe is much harder to time. I posted several of my trades on the ASND thread back then...before July I posted at the Fool. I recall my final trade on ASND was in October. It was my long-term holding in ASND that was getting hit hard at the time. I stopped trading ASND in October because I was concerned over my CYMI shares which were heavily margined and crashing (that's part of why I sold CSCO -- to raise my equity). Remember when I shorted CSCO for a couple days (position trade) in late December? I used the same indicators there. It depends a lot on the person and how he uses his techniques, but personally, my day trading timing is many times more accurate than my long-term timing. >>>Not only that, I'll find a stock that would have made you money if you had followed the exact opposite strategy. i.e. buying when the 50 day ema breaks on the downside.<<< Then that sounds like a stock which would be a great short, using the EMAs. The whole point is to find a stock which has a history of trending off of key trendline breakouts/crossovers. ASND is one of those stocks. Style Pts.