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To: TechTrader42 who wrote (8088)	12/13/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Webb B Blackman Jr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

" We can be thankful that Bill Gates doesn't run Colt Firearms. Brooke, I think that Bill Gates really found his perfect company. A person with his outlook on life (IMHO) would never make it in a non computer related business. I can not think of a business group that accepts as many excuses for poor results as the computer software industry. They will always fix it next time and the product is due any day now. Someone told me many years ago that you set a design standard and you meet it. You never delay the product to add new features after the standard is set. Take QP2 as an example, they are supposed to have an update any time now and they are still adding features. At that rate, the product will never be finished. It will just be shipped. Things will always be made better, but at any point there has to be a defined place to stop. --- webb blackman ---

To: TechTrader42 who wrote (8088)	12/13/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Webb B Blackman Jr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

"You could use a loop that runs from the start date to the end date; for example, your loop could run from -25 to -20." Brooke, Thank you very much. I know what I am going to be doing the week after Christmas. I would assume that you could say use from -300 to -271 and then from -295 to -266 to test for every 5 day period. If you were to take the ratio that Richard talked about (volume/float) , then you would want to run the scan many time to determine if there was a correlation between the observed ratio and the rise in stock price over a period of time. Doing just one test period might give false information. I will have to modify the scan that I have to include the range of dates as you suggested. Thank you very much for your help. --- webb blackman ---