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Strategies & Market Trends : Fidelity Select Sector funds -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Battaglia who wrote (1396)	12/24/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4916

Hi Jim ; It looks like we are on the same page, latter I will develop an on and off hedging style to apply..say just one in the basket gets bad news hold the basket and on the side short the one, such as that. Another thing the way I'm set up in Yahoo, I can add a &d=1d to the end of my url in the window then hit enter and get a daily chart on all of stocks in my particular portfolio at one time. =5d is 5 days =3ms is 3months with S&P overlay, =1ys and so on.. ------------- If you haven't tried that give it a try, ( &d= whatever ) limited to the selections Yahoo gives if you click on them, but this way in the url window you can do the whole basket in one sweep. ( a trick they didn't tell people about ).<G> Normally your portfolio url will have a &d=v1 or v2 (or v whatever view you have set as the default,) on the end of it; just back out the v1 or what ever in the url window, and put in the chart type you want Jim

To: Jim Battaglia who wrote (1396)	12/25/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Julius Wong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4916

Jim and James: Thanks for the info and sharing your ideas on the AMEX Select Sector SPDR. Your messages helped me to start looking. I went to the page mentioned in your messages to see the list of Select Sector SPDR components: amex.com In recent years the index funds are hot. The index funds pushed the market to favor Big Cap stocks. I tried a simple "Big Market Cap" calculation on the Fidelity Select funds by adding the market cap of the top 10 holdings of each fund for a quick look. This is only a quick check, to be correct I should also use the weight percentages. The simple summation found that the better performing funds are also the "Big Cap Funds." Some examples are: Fund Total Cap of Symbol Top 10 Holdings ----- ---------- FDCPX $1,133.3 B FSPTX $1,116.3 B FSPHX $ 849.8 B In the Select Sector SPDR, the Technology (XLK) looks like the Biggest Cap Sector SPDR. If the market continue to favor Big Cap, a buy and hold of XLK should do well. For timing, the TA gurus in SI like the Dahl indicator (based on 50-day MAs) for mutual funds. Julius

To: Jim Battaglia who wrote (1396)	12/26/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 4916

Jim ; I have a friend helping me some with the new SPDRs, if you have ICQ , my number is 18061974..it's the best way at this time for me to exchange files with a friend as e-mail attachments are now getting filtered out by a lot of ISPs..( MSFT is srewing up the internet ) as are a lot of others, but MSFT is the evil of the evils, with the exception of the prono freaks, and I don't care what any one says, I was surfing before she took over, even before any graphic browsers were around,, so my frame of reference goes back beyond the days of most of the garbage that has invaded the net. It seems for every 1 good addition we get, we get 2 or more loads of junk. If MSFT has her way she will build in code were we can't download any thing that doesn't contain her stamp of approval in it, it some ways she is already going down that path, as well as setting up code that disables or hamstrings competitors. MSFT want's to become BIG BROTHER, and she is doing it. Well enough of that. ----------- BACK to SPDRs Message 6976047 L8r Jim