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To: Tom Halkar who wrote (9091)1/11/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Richard Estes  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12039
 
I am not sure Brooke agrees with me. William O'Neil IBD publisher in canslim theory feels t5hat biggest moves are made in stocks with a float under 50M. I agree fully.

I also feel that real volume or demand should be measured as (21 dma of volume)/float. A measure over 10% is usually big movers, up or down. As a list to watch, keep it above 2%.

The best advice to anyone is subscribe to IBD, read O'neil's How to make money in the stock market. This is not for the short term trader but for long/intermediate investors.



To: Tom Halkar who wrote (9091)1/11/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: TechTrader42  Respond to of 12039
 
There isn't a percentage rule. I've found it's generally better to avoid low-cap stocks with huge floats. (One example might be NCTI, which has a float of more than 120 million.) You'll find that low-cap stocks with high floats are more volatile. That's good when they're breaking out and moving up -- not so good when they're on their way down, of course. With a smaller float, the volume doesn't have to be all that high to move a stock.

Brooke


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