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"We have to understand that we are alone in this wild market, we do 
not need any uneducated guru to give any advise."

An important statement of fact IMO. Totally agree. Thanks for posting 
it.
Bill



--- In amibroker@xxxx, "DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS" <TSOKAKIS@xxxx> wrote:
> Many people were named guru during the bullish years.
> They were not educated in fundamental or technical analysis.
> They were just pushing prices higher and higher.
> MACD was a fine solution for charts, as long as it was not crossing 
> its signal for months !!
> StochD was not important, it was from 60 to 90 for exrended periods.
> Crazy P/Es were promissing huge profits not only for us but for the 
3 
> next generations !!
> Crazy profits in new tech for example, when I payed $1800 back in 
> 1989 for my brand new 386 and less than the half for my PIII/800 in 
> 2000 !!
> After the end of the bubble, the same people walked the dangerous 
> [and wrong] path : they continued serving the bullish dream.
> In any local trough, the very next day after the reaction, they 
were 
> giving bold promises for a new high.
> The reason is simple : they did not know something else to do.
> But the market was falling again and again.
> Nearly 3 years later some people still remain on this bullish 
dream, 
> some gurus still remain on the same side, but who cares !!
> They did not see the bearish reality, which is much more real than 
> the bullish bubble.
> We should face the recent example : What happened yesterday ? 
> YHOO announced a third-quarter profit of 5 cents a share late 
> Wednesday, 
> a penny above estimates, and raised its revenue forecast for 2002. 
> Aetna Inc. New (NYSE:AET) had some optimistic forecasts, GE will 
> announce a profit report before the Friday´s open.
> Are these [and some other minor] events the reason for an 
> enthusiastic gap up ?
> I would consider more important to read an announcement for 
divident 
> payment for some "great" companies.
> [You may see also 
> http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/10/pf/investing/q_dividends/index.htm]
> This would be a serious reason to buy and hold some "promissing" 
> stocks of the "new" tech.
> Else I am obliged to invent new techniques to take a +10% from 
CSCO, 
> applying a "take the money and run" logic.
> I will be a fool if I forget that the last 2 months CSCO price did 
> not pay any respect to ANY technical support.
> Does this behavior reflects the company perspectives [to apply the 
No 
> 1 Stockmarket axiom]?
> I am not the authorised person to answer. Did we see any serious 
> reply to this fundamental question by any authorised person ?
> [If positive, please let me know...]. Was there any serious 
> fundamental reason to drop from $15 [Aug22] to $8.5 [Oct10] in 32 
> trading days ???
> Probably not.
> We have to understand that we are alone in this wild market, we do 
> not need any uneducated guru to give any advise.
> The only solution, in my opinion, is our continuous fundamental and 
> technical education.
> And especially for this technical part, Amibroker forum is one of 
the 
> best.
> Enough for now, it is 10:00 and ^Gdax opens.
> Thank you for the opportunity.
> Dimitris Tsokakis   
>         
> --- In amibroker@xxxx, "eseward_2000" <eseward_2000@xxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks, Dimitris; that was worth reading.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxx, "DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS" <TSOKAKIS@xxxx> wrote:
> > > http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/09/markets/strategists/index.htm
> > > Interesting and educative.
> > > DT