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Greg: I'm using the 500 issues that make up the sp500. As I only have a couple weeks of data I'm waiting to collect more data before doing any major profitability study. Price change vs 1/2 Hr volume would be an easy look when I get to that point. JJ

I trade only NYSE equities and there seems to be no pre market trades in these issues. JJ

For those of you who may be interested in volume. I ran a study over the last couple of weeks to see if there is any corellation between opening volume and total volume: I found none. For stocks whose opening volume was over the average; the final volume was 1.1 of the average final volume...

I spent a little time looking at the idea of buying an index in Nov and selling in May. It looked pretty impressive in my last post. I went back to 1928 with the DJI and it has worked very well since 1952. But prior to 1952 you whould have been better off doing just the opposite. Strange...

Here's are examples of Buying an index on April 28th and Selling on October 28th over the last 15 years. DJI 150%, the off period was a -1%. SPX 129% with the off period 6%. NDX 184% with the off period 28%. Pretty impressive, will it continue? These results were computed by...

From the responce I got, I whould conclude that Buy and Hold is my best alternative. Unless someone has the 'Holly Grail', and is keeping it to themselfs. In the 90's it looked like earnings were the dominating factor. In the 80's is was interest rates. In the 70's nothing seemed to work...

Thanks for the links. S&P Outlook used to have these earning for many years back, but I don't think the service is arround any more. JJ

Anybody use them? $5 market orders and $10 limit orders with 10% rebate. They are not direct access but may be good for a backup broker. JJ

Does anyone know where I can get the historical earnings of the SP500. I whould like to download it into Excel. Thanks JJ

I read a little about Mark Boucher, it looks like a good book for trading. I'm looking for something that I can intermediately trade SPY's with. I guess Boucher uses TA and PE ratios of the overall market to determine to be in or short? I noticed that there is a chat group in Yahoo that...

Can I place NYSE orders prior to the opening with IB as asked in a prior post? Thanks! jj

Vikana; I assume this book is about trading the index's, as I want to only trade the SPY or QQQ's. In lieu of going short I could BUY bonds. JJ

I have a $100,000 IRA and am thinking of buying a SPY or QQQ with it and just hold on to it for years. Doe's anyone have a simple system for the market that beats buy and hold? Not intraday but trading at the close. This can be fundalmental "PE ratios, Dividend vs Bond interest...

Optrader: I'm sure that's correct, I have not followed them for some time, but I'm sure a conbination of #1 and #2's could have beaten the S&P. Private: What is IBD? Investor's Buisiness Daily? JJ

Maybe so, but Value Line could really pick them. Have you ever seen their historic perfornmance? JJ

Can I or can I not place NYSE orders with IB prior to the opening; regarding my previous post? Thanks jj

Are you saying that Mutural Funds such as Value Line could beat the market but pay extra commissions to belong to the old boys club? If Value line bought their #1 stocks at a decent price they whould have beaten the s&p hands down. JJ

I think that the specialists should have a pretty good idea of the brokers who represent the different funds. If not, they still must sock it to the large block traders as per the Value Line case. Any ideas as to when and what the Institutions are doing? JJ

I told support I wanted to trade NYSE issues on the opening and they told me they don't allow on opening orders. I then asked "her" if I can place a market order prior to the opening and get filled on the opening, she said that I can't place any orders until the market opens at 9:30am. It...

Why is it that the large funds with all their information and resorces can not outperform the S&P? Because they have too much $$$ and when they place orders they move the market and have to take the price that the specialist "NYSE" will give them. Case in point: Value line has had an...