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Strategies & Market Trends : The Darvas Box Thread - Using the Nicholas Darvas system -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dow Beater who wrote (232)	1/18/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: jan_mike	Respond to of 498

Darvas discovered TI too. That was part of the batch he eventually rolled his Lorillard proceeds into. I bought the TI 99. My contribution. I know accelerating earnings growth was a Darvas hot button, especially in the down markets. Those were the first to rebound. Here's the part that seems to be a sticker for the thread. Everybody read the book. Everybody thinks it makes sense. Many are interested in trying to apply the theory. We have about as many theories on what constitutes a breakout as we have posters. I haven't tracked everything I threw out as possibles, but at least as many fizzled as kept going up. I don't think any became short squeezes, to say the least. I think identifying the breakouts is probably the most important part of the equation, but it isn't exactly a slam dunk. On the other hand, if 9 out of ten picks sit or fizzle and you're out quickly enough, and the tenth one catches fire, you can do extremely well. As John Desaur is fond of observing, it only takes two ten baggers to turn 10k into a million.