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To: CVDave who wrote (228)	10/13/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Jay Hartzok	Respond to of 805

Dave, I use sector and industry group indices and also at least one general market index, sometimes two. I run all data through Window on Wallstreet and compare the charts looking for similarities in the trading patterns of the target stock versus the indices and make my selection of inputs from these charts. Jay

To: CVDave who wrote (228)	10/13/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Len Giammetta	Respond to of 805

Dave, I fully agree with what Jay stated. As a matter of fact, it was through his suggestion that I started using indices at all. Once I saw how well the nets trained and their accuracy, I use them almost exclusively. If you use MI, it tells you what industry the issue belongs too as it automatically generates an industry related graph for you. If you simply point at the chart line it tells you the name of the industry. Sometimes I use a their sub-industries as well. I also use a general market and sector indices if I can find some that work. As far as then all trading in tandem, I'm not sure that that's cut in stone. As Optim mentioned, the nets learn to generalize from "points of failure" as well as from similarities. As long as the nets are fit and accurate I'm satisfied. Also, as Jay mentioned, you can input the 10 digit indices from MI into the Neurstock downloader, and more often then not they work. The results are that you can find and use virtually any industry indice through MI. I choose all my relateds through MI and it takes less than 30 minutes, if that, to find great relateds and set up my nets.

To: CVDave who wrote (228)	10/17/1998 10:15:00 PM
From: CVDave	Respond to of 805

A bit off topic, but I was in Borders today, and noticed an article in "Online Investor" about these mysterious things called Neural Nets, which are apparently somehow related to program trading... The article suggests that there actually an idea floating around that the 1987 crash was stimulated by a bunch of peoples' NN's all suddenly deciding to sell at once! Maybe we should look into this, huh? After all, it COULD happen again! (Pardon the sarcasm...I just find the media to be amazing sometimes. My scanning the article suggested it actually had some good points, but it just HAD to be jazzed up a little bit, I guess.) Dave