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To: bill meehan who wrote (22358)	2/27/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

There are a number of things ...the Prosearch area lets you build search using over 300 fundamental and technical criteria...to find themes between sectors --groups . You can construct a search say that finds highest insider buying in stocks, that are also a stock that are in strong up trends long-term, while being in short-term downtrends, and also have strong free-cash flow growth, or low price to cash flow ratio's. They also have an optimized searchs that show you the profiles and criteria of stocks that have been performing the best over any time period you determine from 5 year performance all the way down to 1 day performance. The options prosearch scan's all options and you can fine the most overvalued or undervalued, best straddles and strangles ( in terms of valuation) there is all types of charting capabilities....you can build portfolios and then study them for indsider trading, over/ undervaluation...price forcasting. the over/undervaluation gives you a screen which will list all of the stocks you put in the portfolio (say the oil drillers) and show pe. next year pe, price to book , debt to equity ratio's , price to sales, growth rates, current ratio. Then any one of these criteria can be sorted in ascending or descending order. entire portfolios can be viewed for either short, medium or long term break signals on a single screen. Telescan Rankings are given in over 20 fundamental and technical criteria, which can be viewed on a page..complete with color coding. They have a nice group rotation table that assigns a number from 1 to 100 based on relative price strength of all groups for each week of the past year. you can follow the numbers as they improve to find strengthening groups. Then go in and do a plethora of studies on the stocks in the group. The site has many other capabilities but That's a few of them.