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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (40284)	5/27/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Mark Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill, I only use TA to get a rough feel for market sentiment on a particular issue/sector after doing the FA stuff. I understand that TA may offer insight into the overall market assessment. However, the market has bipolar symptoms, with manic and depressive behaviour swings. These swings can be very profitable- but may impact TA such that it illustrates the madness of the crowds rather than the quality of the underlying instrument. FA might be as simple as sitting on the back porch, reflecting on recent changes innovation, but usually includes looking at things like Sales/Inventory/AR and especially Cash/Debt (Quick Ratio). I'm in the capital preservation mindset, despite developing a greater tolerance for risk over the past few years. That means making sure the company isn't likely to go belly up if I'm long. If the numbers don't look good, and the charts show heavy momentum type participation, then a put might be in order. BWDIK?