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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (8768)	11/6/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

My recollection is that ORCL moves up in a spiky fashion. I don't have any faith in TA, since I can't time things. I'd have more luck guessing which slot machine is about the pay off, I think. This is a little off-topic, but is there any reason to believe that TA is any more useful that looking for water with a forked stick? I can believe that there are patterns of "mass psychology" that might affect short-term behavior of a stock price independent of substantive events (e.g., new contracts, products, advertising, personnel). But I would guess that these patterns must be too subtle to be quantified easily (no $99 programs), or at least not widely known (since they would surely change behavior enough to stop working).