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To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (190)	3/10/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: funk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 417

Dan your best bet is to utilize the MM window with the ticker option checked, so at least you will have all the sales appear next to the L2 info. btw that is the only type MM window I use also on the L2 windows I like to use the DIR option, with that checked you will see if the MM's are dropping away from the bid or bidding up etc. sometimes VERY helpful, I also get rid of the time as that is covered in the ticker, i also get rid of #best in the L2 as I find it to be fairly useless and easily confused with the size numbers I also have experienced a few different times that pages set up for PCQuote or SPComstock are NOT interchangeable. I think that sux. Can't share great pages : ( >>>>>>>> Really, really need an answer to this question! <<<<<<<<< I was curious... do any of you folks know where or how I can get a list of stocks that are within say "2%" or 1/4 point of its 200DMA or 39 week MA? >>>>>>>> Thanks in advance <<<<<<<<<< If trade station can do that, can it export .SLF's? Also, I have been utilizing the fundamental.mgt on my weekend page for blowing thru lots of daily charts and creating a watch list. I am "guessing" that the percentage of institutional ownership could be a great factor. If I see a stock with earnings, and a p/e that is not stratospheric and the institutional ownership is in the teens or twenties, i'm thinking this could be an added bonus, whereas if the institutional ownership is up over 50 percent, perhaps the stock has a lot of "overhanging" shares. that may suddenly become available. I think I got this notion from a Peter Lynch Book. Anyone have any comments on the actual percentage numbers that may be considered important? Finally, I am in the throws of becoming excel literate. If I had an excel workbook that matched 99 percent of your trades for the year and you ended up with a few you would have to match "manually" would anyone here be interested? thanks, funk Oh, and the occasional difference between Bid Ask numbers and trades, that is Nasdaq NOT keeping up to bandwidth demands, if you have a T1 your still going to see that happen at times. Always go with the bid ask as it is those that are the most timely, the trades are running late.... at least that is what i was told. : \| oh another thing my monster bandwidth hog page, that i often don't try to run at the open, and even my "lighter" bandwidth page, these have windows that i keep closed at the bottom of the page and pop up from time to time mostly things like...a weekly chart with an MA oscillator, a 1 min chart, you know stuff you want to use sometimes, but not always, so in these I make sure to put an extremely LOW volume stock, so that virtually no bandwidth is being consumed by these closed windows. When I need to look at a stock from way off or really close up, i click open the window and pop in the hot stock, before i close the window back down i pop in the super low volume issue. I use LWAY for example. OK I got another one for you. I was at a friend of a friend's place, who is using a 14 inch monitor. I saw right away that he had a super thick black border all the way around his window. His monitor had NEVER been adjusted from the factory. A few minutes with your monitor could gain you a lot of precious real estate. Make sure you take a minute and fiddle with the buttons on the monitor or perhaps its software driven, but make sure you are lighting up all the screen you can. Make sure you are getting the best resolution you can. Go into the control panels and Display and then Appearance,and fine tune your windows or NT so that all you scroll bars and Window borders are nice and demure and not the Big stupid blocky stuff that comes by default. Also when you reduce the size of the window title bars the interface is slightly counterintuitive, in that each time you select a different font size it will default back to a fat bar size but you have to change to a smaller font first in order to reduce the bar size very far. In combination these steps can really make a big difference. hope something in here helps someone... : )