| Al is a collection of data and some trading rules. Al lives in an Excel workbook. Al tests theories on buy and sell signals for stocks and either dismisses them, alters them and retests, or incorporates them into his rules. 
 Al is not a human being. He sticks to his rules and has no emotions.
 
 Al uses my money in real trades. His objective is to maximise profits.
 
 His trades are posted here in the thread header and his rules and results are discussed in the subsequent posts.
 
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 01/07/2002   Short INTC  36.17  01/22/2002   Cover  32.55   10.0% in 11 days
 01/07/2002   Short TXN   29.70  01/14/2002   Cover  26.70   10.1% in  6 days
 01/07/2002   Short QQQ   41.67  01/08/2002   Cover  41.32    0.8% in  1 day
 01/07/2002   Short SUNW  13.98  01/16/2002   Cover  11.98   14.3% in  8 days
 01/09/2002   Short QQQ   42.54  01/18/2002   Cover  38.28   10.0% in 10 days
 01/15/2002   Short ORCL  16.74  02/06/2002   Cover  15.83    5.4% in 17 days
 01/22/2002   Short AMZN  12.36  01/24/2002   Cover  12.99    5.1% LOSS
 01/22/2002   Buy   SSTI   8.46  01/22/2002   Sell    8.12    4.0% LOSS
 01/23/2002   Buy   TWTC  14.15  01/24/2002   Sell   15.20    7.4% in  2 days
 01/23/2002   Short QQQ   37.89  01/23/2002   Cover  37.39    1.3% in  1 day
 01/28/2002   Short QQQ   38.83  02/01/2002   Cover  37.84    2.5% in  5 days
 01/29/2002   Short TXN   30.24  02/06/2002   Cover  29.01    4.1% in  7 days
 02/01/2002   Short QQQ   38.30  02/04/2002   Cover  37.33    2.5% in  2 days
 02/04/2002   Short QQQ   36.82  02/06/2002   Cover  35.96    2.3% in  3 days
 02/06/2002   Short QQQ   36.25  02/07/2002   Cover  35.80    1.2% in  2 days
 02/12/2002   Short QQQ   36.85  02/15/2002   Cover  35.78    2.9% in  4 days
 02/25/2002   Short QQQ   34.99  03/07/2002   Cover  38.21    9.2% LOSS
 03/20/2002   Short QQQ   37.64  03/27/2002   Cover  36.07    4.2% in  4 days
 03/20/2002   Buy   QQQ   36.02  03/20/2002   Sell   35.83    0.5% LOSS
 04/02/2002   Short TXN   33.85  04/09/2002   Cover  31.99    5.5% in  6 days
 04/03/2002   Buy   QQQ   34.85  04/09/2002   Sell   33.65    3.4% LOSS
 04/10/2002   Short LLTC  41.17  04/11/2002   Cover  40.04    2.7% in  2 days
 04/15/2002   Short QQQ   33.75  04/22/2002   Cover  33.64    0.1% in  6 days
 04/16/2002   Short MXIM  56.60  04/19/2002   Cover  55.02    2.8% in  4 days
 04/17/2002   Short LLTC  44.20  04/19/2002   Cover  41.96    5.1% in  3 days
 04/18/2002   Short MSFT  56.80  04/18/2002   Cover  52.36    7.8% in  1 day
 04/19/2002   Short MSFT  57.10  04/22/2002   Cover  56.00    1.9% in  2 days
 04/22/2002   Short LLTC  40.50  04/24/2002   Cover  39.03    3.6% in  3 days
 04/26/2002   Buy   QQQ   32.06  04/26/2002   Sell   31.80    0.8% LOSS
 04/26/2002   Short LLTC  39.07  04/26/2002   Cover  37.82    3.2% in  1 day
 04/29/2002   Short LLTC  38.76  05/01/2002   Cover  37.76    2.6% in  3 days
 05/01/2002   Buy   QQQ   30.97  05/01/2002   Sell   31.40    1.4% in  1 day
 05/02/2002   Short LLTC  38.69  05/02/2002   Cover  37.13    4.0% in  1 day
 05/02/2002   Short QQQ   30.67  05/02/2002   Cover  30.65    0.0% in  1 day
 05/03/2002   Short QQQ   30.43  05/03/2002   Cover  29.73    2.3% in  1 day
 05/03/2002   Short LLTC  36.24  05/03/2002   Cover  35.53    2.0% in  1 day
 05/06/2002   Buy   QQQ   29.77  05/06/2002   Sell   28.98    2.7% LOSS
 05/06/2002   Short LLTC  35.37  05/06/2002   Cover  34.17    3.4% in  1 day
 05/07/2002   Short LLTC  34.23  05/08/2002   Cover  37.25    8.8% LOSS
 05/08/2002   Short LLTC  37.75  06/07/2002   Cover  34.01    9.9% in 22 days
 05/08/2002   Short MSFT  53.32  06/07/2002   Cover  50.34    5.6% in 22 days
 05/08/2002   Short MXIM  48.64  06/06/2002   Cover  42.58   12.0% in 21 days
 06/11/2002   Short QQQ   28.65  06/11/2002   Cover  27.38    4.4% in  1 day
 06/11/2002   Buy   QQQ   27.40  06/12/2002   Sell   26.90    1.8% LOSS
 06/12/2002   Short MSFT  53.83  07/03/2002   Cover  51.22    3.0% in 16 days
 06/12/2002   Buy   QQQ   27.83  06/13/2002   Sell   27.76    0.3% LOSS
 06/17/2002   Short QQQ   28.50  06/21/2002   Cover  26.15    8.2% in  5 days
 06/25/2002   Short QQQ   26.62  06/25/2002   Cover  25.42    4.5% in  1 day
 06/28/2002   Short QQQ   26.68  06/28/2002   Cover  26.02    2.5% in  1 day
 07/02/2002   Buy   QQQ   24.52  06/13/2002   Sell   24.22    1.2% LOSS
 07/05/2002   Short MSFT  54.00  07/08/2002   Cover  53.30    1.3% in  2 days
 07/11/2002   Buy   QQQ   23.95  07/12/2002   Sell   25.38    6.0% in  1 day
 07/12/2002   Short QQQ   25.07  07/19/2002   Cover  23.87    4.8% in  6 days
 07/29/2002   Short MSFT  47.56  08/01/2002   Cover  45.65    4.0% in  4 days
 07/31/2002   Short LLTC  27.00  08/01/2002   Cover  26.11    3.3% in  2 days
 08/07/2002   Short MSFT  45.39  09/03/2002   Cover  47.55    4.8% LOSS
 08/08/2002   Short QQQ   22.71  09/03/2002   Cover  22.37    1.5% in 18 days
 08/12/2002   Short LLTC  28.00  09/03/2002   Cover  25.46    9.1% in 17 days
 09/11/2002   Short QQQ   24.00  09/12/2002   Cover  22.85    4.8% in  2 days
 09/16/2002   Buy   MSFT  47.25  09/16/2002   Sell   47.69    0.9% in  1 day
 09/16/2002   Buy   QQQ   22.85  09/17/2002   Sell   23.17    1.4% in  2 days
 09/17/2002   Buy   QQQ   22.50  09/17/2002   Sell   22.40    0.4% LOSS
 09/17/2002   Buy   MSFT  47.77  09/17/2002   Sell   47.44    0.7% LOSS
 09/17/2002   Buy   NDX Dec 892  09/18/2002   Sell     883    1.0% LOSS
 09/18/2002   Buy   QQQ   21.90  09/26/2002   Sell   21.88    0.0% LOSS
 09/23/2002   Buy   MSFT  45.02  09/26/2002   Sell   46.80    4.0% in  4 days
 10/08/2002   Short MSFT  45.03  10/08/2002   Sell   45.33    0.7% LOSS
 10/10/2002   Short QQQ   20.81  10/10/2002   Sell   20.91    0.5% LOSS
 10/11/2002   Short QQQ   21.86  10/11/2002   Sell   21.82    0.2% in  1 day
 10/11/2002   Short MSFT  48.25
 10/14/2002   Short QQQ   22.10  12/19/2002   Cover  24.98   13.0% LOSS
 10/16/2002   Short IBM   65.17
 12/23/2002   Buy   DIA   84.80  01/02/2003   Sell   86.25    1.7% in  7 days
 01/06/2003   Short QQQ   26.36
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