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Jim,
May not be a bad decision. G7 meets this weekend,
so we might get some positive comments to move the
markets higher. I sure hope so cause I want to
load up on some more shorts. <g>

Harley

Jim Greening wrote:

>  Guy,     I cheated a little also.  I closed my
> TRV, RDC, and 1/2 my EGGS position this
> morning.  I decided to keep half the EGGS for
> part of a test I'm going to do on low priced
> small caps over the next few months.  I watched
> off and on for most of the day and finally
> decided to stick with my DELL position.  My
> rationale for DELL is that it was so close to my
> re-entry point for a bounce off the bottom of
> the intermediate term channel that I might as
> well just keep it and move the stop to under the
> intermediate term channel.  That might have been
> real dumb, time will tell. Jim
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Guy Tann <grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>      To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 1:31 AM
>
>      Subject: RE: StopsJimI wimped out.
>      Had another sell signal for Monday
>      night at the Close and was too much of
>      a wuz to add to my short positions.
>      When am I going to learn to just
>      follow the signals?  Worried about
>      Greenspan and the pending rate cut
>      even though we previously discussed
>      the possibility that anything he did
>      would be too little too late.  Oh
>      well....RegardsGuy
>
>           -----Original Message-----
>           From:
>           owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>           [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>           Behalf Of Jim Greening
>           Sent: Thursday, October 01,
>           1998 5:16 PM
>           To: Metastock
>           Subject: Stops
>           All,     I sure was wrong
>           about that clear sailing to
>           the top of the Horizontal
>           Channel, looks like the DJI
>           will test the bottom instead
>           <G>.  All my open positions
>           closed below their stops
>           today, so I'll close
>           everything tomorrow with one
>           possible exception.  DELL
>           did break through the bottom
>           of the short term up trend
>           channel but is now close to
>           the bottom of the
>           intermediate term channel.
>           If it opens up tomorrow and
>           looks like it's trying  to
>           turn, I may hold on to it.
>           On the other hand, I don't
>           want to let a profit get
>           away <G>. Jim
>