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[logica2me] 18/10/2003 17:46

Niggle

I haven't used either, but having worked in ecommerce I know that Actinic is not very highly regarded compared to Intershop (a large European online shop company).

Personally, unless you're going to be doing a massive volume, I'd have a link on the website directly to your Paypal account - yes, it's expensive, but as long as you bear this in mind then you shouldn't have a problem recouping the cost. If I'm honest, with my personal eBay stuff, I tend to buy jiffy bags at 15p each and charge the end user 75p for them (I include this in the postage and packing cost that they pay) which usually recoups the Paypal costs, otherwise I say "If paying by Paypal please add 50p" - let's face it, if they are paying by Paypal rather than chq then they are saving the price of a stamp by not having to post the cheque to me.

All good fun - I've got a couple of decent mobile phone accessory suppliers lined up so am planning to take that market by storm !

I'll let you know how I get on.

Take care, Log

[niggle] 18/10/2003 13:36

oo a few more sales. We generally sell about 2/3 rds of what we put up which ain't too bad really considering that selling shoes online is always going to be hazardous.

I put up 25 prs a week ago and have sold 7 of them mostly by 'buy nows' plus I keep adding more when I get the time.

I'm thinking of speeding up the process by setting up a bona fida online shop see , trouble is actinic want up to £1500 for the multi shop software. I could use but it seems very skewed to the US, have you any experience of either?

[logica2me] 18/10/2003 13:15

Hows the ebaying going niggle ???

[niggle] 18/10/2003 13:15

It's a pleasure.

[niggle] 18/10/2003 13:15

It's a pleasure.

[energyi] 18/10/2003 12:23

very constructive, Niggle.
thnx for that.

Purpose of this thread?
It's in the header. I want to be able to look back at those intraday
charts and comments next time we see a gap up in a wave structure like this

[energyi] 18/10/2003 09:39

DOW-9700 is Next Support : NASDAQ has broken support

...
I think Dow-9700 will be taken out on Monday,
and the week will bring a BIG DROP. But you cannot
Rule out another pop up to test the highs.

Here's an Elliot Wave Analyst who thinks Highs are coming

The comment:
"The correction is likely to take place in the upcoming week...
Each of these for charts clearly shows the expected Elliott Wave Targets for the expected pull back. On average we are looking at a 30-40% retracement of the October gains. Each market will need to break both their grey support lines and the R2 levels to reach the targets. This should be an interesting ride."
THEN, they expect a rise to New Highs.
Source:

[theape] 17/10/2003 19:40

run a weekly dow chart. looks a bit like that.

[energyi] 17/10/2003 16:11

A break of SPX-1040,
should signal a drop to SPX-1020 or lower

[energyi] 16/10/2003 17:49

Fear may paralyse (Deer-in-headlights response),
but when margin calls come in, ACTION is required fast
and people react in panic, not with common sense

[jabberstocky] 16/10/2003 12:28

Interesting thread. Just letting my thoughts meander out loud here...

People equate rises with greed and falls with fear, and yes greed on a new rising market should be slow because investors are likely to be slow because they fear a risk of losing, but speed up when the greed is motivated by fear of missing out, so shouldn't tops be rapid as in late 1999?

The past 6 months have been marked by the speed of the rise- so what has been the dominant emotion over the past 6 months? Has it been professional speculative greed of the few as their cash returns. I can't believe that mass greed has returned. So many people have given up on their ISA's and PIPs, or have they I should find some stats. What happens if there is now mass greed and new money flowing into funds - should that mean further rises moderated by the old money starting to come out, in which case I could see that the top could be slow and flat.

A fall is thought to be swift because it is motivated by fear, but fear paralyses investors and so shldn't a fall be slow until the final capitualtion when holders can take no more and sell.

i.e. shouldn't both tops and bottoms be driven by fear and marked by speed: the top marked by mass fear of missing out, the bottom by whatever you call that wake up emotion that comes after the paralysis caused by fear.

Actually, I don't know and think I tend to see tops as less obvious.

Anyway, these ideas can run in circles and end up with whatever conclusion your looking for and so I'm just keeping it simple and waiting to see what happens now that we are almost back around August 2002.

[energyi] 16/10/2003 08:23

Why are they different?

Because Greed operates differently than fear.
Greed is slow-moving, like water moving up a sponge.
Fear is electric, moves fast from person-to-person like lightening.
So tops (a saturation of greed) tend to be slower than bottoms,
where fear "blows itself out", and people's natural optimism returns.

(however, very important lows may happen when the "natural optimism"
has been eroded away.)

[jdeltablues] 15/10/2003 23:35

I think I agree with most of what Mr Gartley says - it's quite common for markets to bottom out with a very sharp reversal, as the longs who've been holding all the way down finally lose confidence and throw in the towel, and the large shorters see this and take advantage of the liquidity to cover their positions. We've seen several examples of this over the last few years. (Another variety is the rounded saucer bottom, where the selling very gradually dries up and buyers eventually start dipping their toes in - these are often very good trades).

The dynamics of tops are different, as many buyers only get drawn in after the market has already gone up a long way, so there's often heavy trade in both directions as large longs who've held since the bottom sell their shares to new participants hoping to make a killing. Market tops often see very high volume, but with the market failing to make further progress North, until eventually the selling overcomes the buying and the market starts going down. Spike tops are more common in individual stocks and commodities, as stock markets that are making a top often rotate from stocks that looks "expensive" to others that look "cheap". Having a market make a spike top which is not retested, like the Nasdaq in 2000 is very unusual (the S&P did retest its spike top later in the year, and the Dow made a more normal extended top which lasted a couple of years).

[hooya] 15/10/2003 16:57

This has been quite interesting on the way up...several head and shoulders in a row now named the Hooya Head Shoulders Knees and Toes Chart:-)

[energyi] 15/10/2003 16:46

Hooya,
this is to keep track of some intraday price movements which I will
not be able to find if I do not save them by starting a new thread

[jabberstocky] 15/10/2003 16:46

Look obvious






















in retrospect.

[hooya] 15/10/2003 16:45

oh goody another Enegyi thread...


mmmmmmmmm? I wonder




LOL

[barzy] 10/10/2003 16:20

big volumne
nearly 5% today

[barzy] 10/10/2003 16:20

why 5percent today

[skyship] 16/6/2003 14:08

Nice support @ 190p level, now looking to break out of the flag on the upside. The final in c.2 weeks time could provide that opportunity and a run through the previous peak - perhaps to the 235-250p level. Director/family control ensures a pretty limited following for this stock, but they specialise in the vogue sector of the property market, so the Finals should reveal good news.

[skyship] 22/5/2003 16:45

So, Legal & General took that line - presumably from Channel Hotels or Aberforth Smaller Cos Tst. Not much excitement there, but at least a vote of confidence from L&G to almost double their holding - and at market price rather than a large line discount.

[energyi] 20/5/2003 15:56

How about London & Associated Properties?
Or even part-miner, Bisichi?