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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ira Tunik" <irat@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "realtraders" <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:12 AM
Subject: [RT] news


> I have to chuckle at all the noise made about the published news and
> what to do about it.  The news is a useless tool in trading as far as I
> am concerned.  If I am trading I don't watch the TV news, read the
> financial pages, Barrons, the WSJ, IBD, or anything relating to the
> markets.  If you check back through history you will find that the news
> did not effect the markets for more then a day or two.  It didn't make a
> difference if it was a war, an assassination or a rumor.  If the market
> was going up, you would get your blip and it would continue up and if it
> was going down, you would get your blip and it would continue down.   I
> remember being on the floor when Granville was the guru of the day and
> he made his famous announcement that the bull market was over and that
> the market should go down X number of points.  The market opened down 65
> points, which was a large percentage in those days, and then proceeded
> to rally and closed up on the day.
>
> Everything you need to know is on the charts. By the time you have read
> it someone else has already traded it.  It is impossible to read all of
> the news that is available about the markets, individual stocks,
> sectors, world events, economic news world wide, crop reports, weather
> reports, broker reports, upgrades, downgrades, revised earnings reports,
> investment advisors, Value Line, etc.  There just isn't enough time in
> the day to read all that is pertinent and then find time to trade.   The
> news can't help but give you a bias to one side or the other.  In
> trading one can't have a bias.  One must trade what his system tells him
> is happening at that particular time.  The old saying still holds,
> "Money talks and BS walks".  The charts tell you what the money is
> saying and the news tells you the BS.  So continue your arguments about
> the news and its relativity to the markets and I shall watch the charts
> and trade what they tell me is fact.  Have a good day,  Ira
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