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To: Berney who wrote (3088)	6/21/1998 4:19:00 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11051

Re data on CD: they consists of a bunch of DBase (.dbf) files, which I could read in Excel. Means you can read them as well in Quattro - if microsoft can understand dbf, then quatro should as well. Dbase is one of workhorses in Borland's stable, next to Quattro. I did not go into any detail, but went through income.dbf and some others. No problem at all. Re my inclinations: you probably noticed that I am playing in a different sandbox. I'm approximately 80-20 Eu-US. I'm also one of the "long" guys in this establishment. So, you should understand my curiosity partially as straightforward stupidity (one could understand my praise on buying GM puts as sarcasm. Fact is I just did not know they are going on strike) and partially as an honest desire to get the best possible* tools from US and just cut Eurepan grass as short as I can. So far Im doing fine (growth rate 51, variability in the twenties, 3years avge) but I would like to work on both (g). Re trading model: the main problem I have is to stay awake between the moments of frantic activity (like this Friday). So Im dabbling with things, where I could (independently) verify things you figured out. It's essentially the same thing as dreams of building your own plane or whatever. One essential difference though to the big guys that have been doing neural nets (...er, I'll have more on that some time down the road..) is, that we're small fish and biting a piece of action off the market does not move it. Heisenberg's law does not apply to us - this is something we (DJ, Juri & Kerstin) figured out late some nice night in Karlsruhe. So, why not try? At least it keeps me from buying and forgetting to sell (yen puts...) This call applies to your valuation models (!) as well as trading ideas. And of course it extends to anybody that reads these lines. DJ