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<DIV>Could you tell me what IRL is or give me the URL for
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<P align=right><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2><EM>"The new IRL is incredible and
takes the concepts of group strength, group
speed and stock selection to entirely new
levels...I would encourage anyone who has not
tried IRL to do so as it will greatly impact
your decision-making
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<P align=right><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2><EM>— Robert Minkowski, MD, IRL
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<P><IMG align=right height=170
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face=Arial size=2>Market analysts have
attributed an astonishing 30 percent of stock
price changes to industry group movement. The
Investor’s Reference Library™ (IRL) makes
it easy to track industry group movement and
gives you an early warning sign for possible
movement of securities within a group. IRL is
the premier tool for industry group analysis.
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<P><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Create your
own industry groups and
indices</FONT></STRONG><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2> IRL already
provides over 200 pre-defined industry groups.
But what makes IRL so powerful is its ability to
create new industry groups with any securities
you wish and compute a corresponding index using
one of 5 methods. Group the stocks in your
portfolio, all the securities in a mutual fund,
or make an index of the most recent IPOs. The
possibilities are endless.</FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Chart any
group index or single security for quick
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<TD rowSpan=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Group
Watch feature in IRL lets you quickly analyze
any security or group index in your database.
Apply a moving average, MACD, Chaikin
Indicators, and Ian Woodward’s Moving
Average Crossovers to your chart all at once or
separately. You can even overlay two price plots
for easier comparison.</FONT>
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face="Times New Roman" size=2><I>View a chart of
any security in your database, or one of the
industry group indices with the Group Watch
feature.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Rank all your
industry groups and
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<TD rowSpan=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>IRL makes
it a snap to find the industry groups and
securities with the most potential. You can rank
industry groups or individual securities based
on any one of 3 Relative Strength formulas. The
results are then displayed in an easy-to-read,
color coded table so you can spot the winners
right away. This feature alone makes IRL worth
the price!</FONT>
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<TD align=middle width=250><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=2><I>Rank all your
industry groups, or all the securities in a
group, using any one of 3 Relative Strength
formulas. </I></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Expand your
analysis with
MetaStock</FONT></STRONG><BR><STRONG><FONT
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</FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Easily
export IRL indices to MetaStock format for more
in-depth analysis. You’ll be able to use
MetaStock’s The Explorer to filter and
rank your group indices, then filter and rank
the securities in the hottest industry groups to
discover the best of the best.</FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Read a
year’s worth of market commentary and IRL
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</FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>The
latest version of the IRL includes the last four
issues of newsletters created by two of
today’s top investment gurus: Ian Woodward
and Rex Takasugi. Learn how to use stops to
reduce losses, get some great tips on using IRL,
and discover what these two experts think about
the current market outlook. And with your annual
subscription to IRL, you’ll get two new
issues every quarter! </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=3><STRONG>2 Free
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</STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Included
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online financial information service that
includes company reports, discount brokerage
services, a personalized news clipping service,
and more. Also included is the Reuters Trend
DataLink version of <A
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that lets you easily update your data files with
the same Reuters data that Industry Monitors
uses to create the IRL database.<BR></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>System
Requirements:</B> <BR>Pentium 133 or higher PC,
<BR>Windows 95 or NT 4.0 or higher, <BR>15 MB of
hard disk space, <BR>and a CD-ROM
drive.</FONT></P>
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Software, industry sectors, company
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John, Thanks for the information. My trading periods would probably be in weeks, at
least in most instances. I would use this to hedge long positions and only actually
go' short in the extremis.
John Manasco wrote:
> Bill
>
> Percentage wise the average daily change in the spiders is .74 points
> and the S&P is .67 points. This is according to the August issue of
> Futures magazine. Dollar wise the average daily change is $0.81 for the
> spiders and $1750 for the S&P. On margin, the spiders can be bought on
> 50% margin and the S&P for a lot less depending on your broker and
> account size. That's where the leverage is. And a daily point move of
> $0.81 is hard to trade on a short term basis after you take out
> commissions and the bid/ask spread. I guess I should have asked what
> your time frame was and your goals. Depending on your goals the spiders
> may be a good vehicle for you to trade.
>
> John Manasco
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> Bill Saxon wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, John. I'm confused. Percentage wise would the move not be comparable?
> > The price of the Spiders per share is a lot less than the S&P, perhaps a tenth.
> >
> > John Manasco wrote:
> >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > The only problem I have with spiders is they aren't volatile. A 10 point
> > > move in the S&P is only a one point move in the spiders. Even if you buy
> > > on margin you'll see they don't make big moves in a day. Ever consider
> > > OEX options?
> > >
> > > John Manasco
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