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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (18669)	5/18/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

One of the solutions to your comment is to set pre - determined prices for losses and also for profits. I am not of the opinion of let the profits run and cut short on losses. This formula is to easy and earning money is not easy at all!!! There is a time to buy and a time to sell. Do not be to confident, running scared saves your capital. Just my 2 cents. As to bobby's asumption I also think we may rally a bit as teh market gets oversold. decisionpoint.com Haim

To: William H Huebl who wrote (18669)	5/18/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill: RE>> They SHOULD be. But trying to disconnect brain with emotion is the the true test of a trader. Once the heat of trading starts pouring though your blood, watch out... you start doing crazy things. hee hee ..not me, I mean almost never, well at least not very much, or well not near as much as I use too ? <ggg> ------------------- Crap I still do it at times..it's not always ego sometimes I think I just get bored. Same at the dog track, if I only make the bets that I get the odds it can get boring as hell. Trading in an almost flat market is a no winner for the small guy. Expenses and spreads force you to be to exact to often and it can't be done constantly. You need to be tied into a SOES bandit operation to day trade a market like this, I need more time and a margin of error to handle the mess ups with the quote server and when the internet slows down..( seems to happen just when you need to pull the trigger too ) I might add shorting it is more risky than going long, if one waits for dips and buys in..even if it goes the wrong way there is not much risk if they can just hang on long enough. But dip buying time is not ripe right now, as while we are still in a bull market..we have entered a short term down trend that is hanging on, and it could get worse before it gets better. Jim