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To: rupert1 who wrote (37669)11/27/1998 3:08:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 97611
 
Victor... I was just getting ready to say that! jajajajajaja El



To: rupert1 who wrote (37669)11/28/1998 12:27:00 AM
From: Kenya AA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 97611
 
Vepoc and Pruguy,

Both technical analysis and fundamental analysis are totally subjective.

I've never cared for Dorsey Wright's analysis and today I really think he was smokin' something - except for his comments on DELL. I believe he uses point and figure charting exclusively. I know very little about P&F except that it has something to do with plotting supply and demand on a graph. On the surface it would seem to be a logical way to assess a situation, but maybe he's not putting his Xs and Os in the right squares. They used to have a P&F analyst on Squawk sometimes named Louise Yamato. She made some better calls, but she dealt more with sector analysis.

I agree with you that a lot of TA is mumbo-jumbo - look at Jerry Favors. I have no idea what he's talking about. IMO about 30% of what most technical analysts say makes some kind of sense and the other 70% is garbage. But, you know I could say the same thing about the fundamental analysts - The economic crisis is over. The economic crisis is just starting. PC sales are slowing. PC sales are growing. CPQ's great. CPQ sucks. And the economists . . . .

K




To: rupert1 who wrote (37669)11/28/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Bruno Cipolla  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 97611
 
re: compaq cannot grow as fast...

>it is clear that he means that CPQ is now a big, complicated company >and cannot grow as fast as it used to.

around two thirds of compaq's business are still PC based
so they should grow pc-like and possibly better (gaining mkt share)
only about a third is "different" business (DEC, Tandem, Services)
and it will grow its own way.

if you still do 2/3 of your business the old way, you look a lot like before.