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To: TechTrader42 who wrote (5687)	7/30/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: Dale Wingo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Brooke HOTMACD long by Andy Gabor You mentioned that this is for high average daily volume stocks and I assume that is what the input = "Volume.lst" is for. I also assume that another scan is run to build this list..? Could you please define "high average daily volume" and couldn't a line be added like: for p=-14 to 0 step 1 do if avgvol(p,p-33) >= 30000 then volratio :=vol(p)/avgvol(p,p-33); assuming that 30000 is high? BTW for those lurking, if you delete the input = "volume.lst"; line then you'll get divide by zero errors unless you exclude 0 volume stocks with something like the above. Thx, Dale

To: TechTrader42 who wrote (5687)	7/30/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Dale Wingo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Brooke HOTMACD long by Andy Gabor Me again<g>. I don't mean to be a pest but I've been going over the scan you posted from Andy Gabor and don't understand a couple of things. Will the line containing "if p <-29 then" ever be true considering the for loop specifies that p ranges from -14 to 0? Considering the line "if volratio > 1.3 or volratio<.90 then". Is this looking for days where the volume is higher by 30% or off by 10% from the average of the last 34 days? Are we looking for both long and short candidates? I guess I'm confused as to why the lower volume is desirable. Considering the line "if qrs(p) > 84 or qrs (p) < 40 then". Do you know why qrs(p) < 40 is desirable? Considering the line "if movavg(p,89,hi)/(.000001+movavg(p,89,lo)) > 1.025 then" and after reading several thousand messages in the TA threads where Andy seems to prefer the 13, 34, 89 MACD should the following line "set macd=13,34,8;" possibly be wrong? ie should it be "set macd=13,34,89;"? If I'm all wet on these then PLEASE straighten me out! I've looked at some of the charts on the output I ran this evening and just don't have a clue as to what I'm being told for hits such as: ACAT ADTN AFN ALT APAC APGR I do see a "good" pattern for ASTE.. I think.. To get these I ran it the scan with avgvol > 30000. Thanks for your help! Dale