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

To: HairBall who wrote (29211)	9/28/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 94695

LG; In as much as SI grew so fast, I at one time did a rate of growth in the amount of post, just to get an idea of the likely growth of other internut stocks. This activity peaked and was in decline ( growth wise ) some time early this year. My counts were rough that I didn't bother to post the results. Since that time and with the new owners of SI, I'm not sure it could be repeated, I tend to think that now SI has likely sent some older post to the grave yard. Even some of the subject or threads that went dead I don't find any longer. I'm not sure what it means now, as Yahoo has had an increase in messages posted. Maybe it's just more online competition, I concluded that there was no way for me to get enough data in a way to tell anything with out it becoming a full time job. Also I've become more aware of how easy it is to find data to support any kind of preconceived idea I have, and how hard it is for me to get out of being prejudice towards my own ideas as I collect data to assimilate. I tend to think I'm not alone in that respect, time after time , data I first thought was meaningful has turned up to be just so much voodoo. ------------------ Beyond that; I discovered enhancements in most major indexes some time ago. So I got to were I wanted to dig below the surface, ha even then I most often run into another layer of data that's questionable. It's most difficult to get at any truth in the market, why I might go so far to say the prices we see on the exchanges and the bid/ask are not always what they seem. On top of that just like I found black market exchange of currency in my travels, I have no reason to think there is not a black market in the exchange of stocks, in fact it could be a lot larger than any of us think. --------------------- Jim