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Mike,
I'm in the exact same position as you. However, I would do nothing to
dampen the enthusiasm of anyone posting here and welcome all posts short
or long, timely or not.
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Michael E. Strupp wrote:
> To all RealTraders:
>
> As a stock daytrader, I have appreciated the insights and suggestions
> made by Don and others on particular stocks of the day. It's cool to
> see how these ideas have been applied in real time, etc.
>
> One thing that I'm curious to hear from other participants is whether
> they continuously monitor this listserv group or if they read a group of
> messages at the beginning or end of the day.
>
> The reason I ask this is because it seems like 20 to 30% of the messages
> I'm getting in my e-mail box are to the effect that "I'm going long
> MSFT" or "I'm shorting INTC" - which may be great to know but since I
> don't have access to my e-mail account during the trading day (I trade
> out of an office without internet access), it may be more efficient to
> provide a summary of all these trades at the end of the day along with
> some description of the trading strategy used, a la a trading diary or
> something.
>
> I realize that this is a very self-centered observation, and I don't
> mean to belittle the potential utility of these messages but it seems
> like half the messages I received via RealTraders recently had very
> little informational content in them. They were either notices of what
> people were trading or quick, glib remarks back and forth between a few
> of the market participants.
>
> Maybe a new listserv should be created for trading these realtime
> trading recommendations where people who can use them profitably can
> have access to them while people who can't use them don't have to sift
> through 70-80 messages a day to get to the few messages that may be of
> use to them.
>
> I dunno - maybe we've gone over this territory before ... any comments?
>
> Mike
>
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Bob Dombrowski, Buffalo, NY
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