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<DIV><FONT size=2>Brooke,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Good point!&nbsp; I had 
a&nbsp;nice chuckle with the common sense questions you asked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Adam</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  href="mailto:brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>Brooke</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:16 
  PM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bollinger Bands &amp; 
  Formula Monkeys</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>This has changed into the most peculiar list in some 
  respects. </FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>If anyone has the temerity to say that any TA system or 
  formula just might be&nbsp;useful in&nbsp;making money, there's a howl of 
  pshaws by a mob of skeptics. One wonders what the heck the skeptics are doing 
  with Metastock, if not using it to develop formulas and 
  systems.&nbsp;</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>What could they be doing with Metastock? </FONT></DIV>
  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>1. Making colorful tablemats during crafts hour at the group 
  home?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>2. Staring at charts to relax the mind&nbsp;at the ashram, 
  while chanting "I look only at&nbsp;moving averages," "I look only 
  at&nbsp;moving averages,"&nbsp;"I look only at moving averages"?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>3. Gathering extensive evidence to debunk&nbsp;the reviled 
  oscillators on mail lists?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>4. Staring at price and volume,&nbsp;cuz all that formula 
  stuff don't make no sense, no never mind, and no money?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>5. Coloring price bars magenta, purple and 
blue?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>6. Trying to play Metastock CD over and over again in music 
  CD player, on the mistaken impression that Achelis is a rock group. 
  </FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>7. Feeding that nasty TA software habit?</FONT></DIV>
  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>What, pray tell? Whatchoo doin' with it? If it's something 
  clean and wholesome, let us know.&nbsp;Let Metastock know. Maybe it could be 
  marketed for other uses. </FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT size=2>2. </FONT>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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    style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
    <A title=brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    href="mailto:brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>Brooke</A> </DIV>
    <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> </DIV>
    <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:00 
    PM</DIV>
    <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bollinger Bands &amp; 
    Formula Monkeys</DIV>
    <DIV><BR></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>iseed:</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>With the daily interval for AMAT, for example, the Boll. 
    band system was consistently profitable for a period of 2 years. In fact, 
    there wasn't one losing long trade, and that's with no stops. There were two 
    losing short trades, and yet even the short trades as a whole netted a 
    profit. I can think of worse systems. </FONT></DIV>
    <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>Here's the latest entry signal, at the lower B band 
    (yellow). There's a percentage formula for getting in, but it's proprietary, 
    as it were. See that beautiful bounce? That comes from buying at the lower 
    band. Yes indeedy. Don't work was made to work, I guess. </FONT></DIV>
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    <DIV><FONT size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>From: j seed &lt;<A 
    href="mailto:jseed_10@xxxxxxxxxxx";>jseed_10@xxxxxxxxxxx</A>&gt;</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>To: &lt;<A 
    href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A>&gt;</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:38 PM</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT size=2>Subject: Re: Bollinger Bands &amp; Formula 
    Monkeys</FONT></DIV></DIV>
    <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>&gt; Lenny,<BR>&gt; Maybe a picture would prove 
    your point. Could you send a gif of the trades?<BR>&gt; J<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; 
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    &gt;Precedence: bulk<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;Doug,<BR>&gt; 
    &gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First of all I witnessed Brooke make those 
    trades using Bollinger <BR>&gt; &gt;Bands<BR>&gt; &gt;in real time. It pays, 
    in more ways then one, to be open minded before <BR>&gt; &gt;making<BR>&gt; 
    &gt;carte blanche statements such as the ones you have made.&nbsp; And 
    second, you<BR>&gt; &gt;need to take a look at yourself in the mirror 
    because it seems you've <BR>&gt; &gt;become<BR>&gt; &gt;a "Formula Monkey" 
    yourself!&nbsp; And I quote "Draw some support/resistance<BR>&gt; 
    &gt;levels, a few trendlines, and an oscillator (i.e. stochastic) 
    for<BR>&gt; &gt;overbought/oversold."&nbsp; What the heck do you think 
    stochastics are derived<BR>&gt; &gt;from?&nbsp; Thin air? By the way, love 
    to see how great Oscillators work in a<BR>&gt; &gt;TRENDING market, you know 
    sell when it crosses 80 while the stock is <BR>&gt; &gt;trending<BR>&gt; 
    &gt;up, yikes!! - Lenny<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;In a message dated 
    08/09/2000 6:38:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,<BR>&gt; &gt;<A 
    href="mailto:brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>brookelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> 
    writes:<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;&lt;&lt; I made a few bucks trading some 
    tech stocks off the lower B band last <BR>&gt; &gt;week<BR>&gt; &gt;&nbsp; 
    and this week, Doug (for example AMD, AMAT and CSCO). And what's more, 
    <BR>&gt; &gt;the<BR>&gt; &gt;&nbsp; trades were based on a system that makes 
    consistent profits. The signals<BR>&gt; &gt;&nbsp; were plain as 
    day.<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;&nbsp; -- A Formula Monkey<BR>&gt; 
    &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; 
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