RE: Re: [CANSLIM] breakouts to come

From: Tomas <tomas986@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Re: [CANSLIM] breakouts to come
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Roger,

Worked like a charm.  THANKS!

tomas

- --- Roger Tawa <roger@tawacentral.net> wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
> 
> Here is an even cheaper method (i.e. costs nothing)
> if you are running
> windows 2000 or windows xp.
> 
> 1. first make sure the window you want to capture is
> "selected".  Just click
> on the title bar to make sure
> 2. press Alt-Print Screen.  This copies the contents
> of the selected window
> to the clipboard
> 3. from the start menu, select "run...", type
> mspaint, and press OK
> 4. once the mspaint program has started, press
> Ctrl-V
> 
> there you go.  You can now save the picture.  On
> windows 2000, the only
> options to save are .bmp and .gif.  on xp, you have
> many more formats to
> choose from, including .jpg.
> 
> note that you don't have to use mspaint in step 3. 
> you can use your
> favourite drawing program.  Hope this helps.
> 
> =================================================
> Roger Tawa
> http://tawacentral.net/
> [One thing about paradigms: shift happens.]
> [When you stop, you're done.]
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	owner-canslim@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-canslim@lists.xmission.com]  On Behalf
> Of Katherine Malm
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:57 PM
> To:	canslim@lists.xmission.com
> Subject:	RE: Re: [CANSLIM] breakouts to come
> 
> Hi Tomas,
> 
> I assume you are referring to saving a digital
> (JPEG) copy of the chart to
> which you can add your own annotations. If so, I use
> a screen capture
> program called CapturePro that allows you to capture
> an entire window, even
> if all the contents is not currently displayed on
> your screen. It's a
> modestly priced program that you'll find at
> www.creativesoftworx.com. There
> are other free and shareware screen capture
> programs, but not many of them
> allow you to capture an entire window out of view.
> 
> And yes, you are more than welcome to use, save,
> print and post the charts
> in any fair-use, non-commercial way as long as the
> copyright remains intact.
> 
> Katherine
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-canslim@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-canslim@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf
> Of Tomas
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:41 PM
> To: canslim@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: RE: Re: [CANSLIM] breakouts to come
> 
> 
> Yea, I am beginning to realize that IBD is not a
> very
> good mining tool.
> 
> Katherine, a question.  How do you save those charts
> to annotate?  I cannot seem to save the whole
> charts.
> I can only save one chart at a time.  I am referring
> to your cwhcharts.  Oh, I recalled you saying that
> it
> is ok to save your charts and annotate them, right?
> 
> Regards,
> tomas
> 
> --- Katherine Malm <kmalm@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hi Ann and all,
> >
> > I have to agree with Bill on this. By the time
> > something makes it to a list like
> > the WR or the IBD100, they've already *become* the
> > leaders. It makes a heck of a
> > lot more sense to catch them as they're *becoming*
> > leaders. That is, if RS>=85
> > is considered a leader, then how the heck did they
> > get there? They rose from a
> > lower RSRank to get there in the first place. If
> > they were rising in RSRank,
> > then they were *rising in price.* While looking
> for
> > outperformance to the market
> > and to other stocks is a cornerstone of CANSLIM
> > investing, I've never agreed
> > that mining should only be done after the stock is
> > at RSRank 80 or 85. It's true
> > that leaders will pull back and offer new entry
> > points, so having a list of
> > leaders is helpful. But the problem is, if you
> want
> > to get the best part of the
> > move, you've got to be watching these guys as they
> > set up and start the lion's
> > share of the move. The IBD started publishing an
> > index of the WR stocks over
> > time, showing a mild percentage gain vs. a sink
> hole
> > return in the indexes
> > during the Bear, but I suspect that if one were to
> > instead publish an index of
> > stocks breaking out of sound bases starting at a
> > non-laggard RSRank>=70, then
> > the index would be substantially higher.
> >
> > Years ago, a friend of mine and I would meet every
> > Saturday for coffee and pour
> > over the IBD together. At the time, he kept asking
> > why the heck all the stocks
> > mentioned in the paper didn't offer up a good
> entry
> > point. Most of the time, the
> > lists of stocks, the minigraphs, etc. were already
> > too extended. That meant that
> > in order to use the IBD itself for mining, we had
> to
> > sift through the
> > lilliputian stock tables highlighting stocks from
> > RSRank 70 and up, highlight up
> > and coming Industries, add the stocks from "Where
> > the Big Money is Flowing" then
> > one by one look at all the charts. It was
> exhausting
> > and incredibly time
> > consuming. My conclusion after practically loosing
> > my eyesight (and my
> > Saturdays) was that while the IBD is an incredible
> > resource for current news,
> > information on companies, keeping tabs on the
> Market
> > and learning about CANSLIM,
> > it's a lousy mining tool.
> >
> > Once I'd figured that out, I set out to instead
> > devise a methodology that would
> > let me mine for stocks that met the minimum
> > requirements for a CANSLIM-quality
> > stock and were *just* beginning to outperform and
> > setup for a breakout. The goal
> > was to own a stock before it showed up in the IBD.
> > Just as Bill suggested,
> > seeing it in the IBD *after* I'd found it was the
> > ultimate test. Or, another way
> > of saying it was that I didn't want to see a
> single
> > stock mentioned in the IBD
> > that I didn't already know about. For the most
> part,
> > I think that implies that
> > at the very least, one needs some sort of
> technical
> > software to do this. Many
> > here use HGS/Quotes Plus (QP2), DGO, Vectorvest
> and
> > others to do this and each
> > has their own particular approach. But even with
> > these tools, it still requires
> > looking through a lot of charts every day to make
> > sure you're seeing the stocks
> > *as* they set up. As I'd rather be hiking the
> Grand
> > Canyon or having a margarita
> > by the pool, that time spent motivated me to
> develop
> > even better tools for
> > finding stocks setting up for a breakout, leading
> to
> > my partnership with Mike at
> > the cwhcharts.com site. That means that there is a
> > third alternative to sifting
> > through the IBD or through a lot of charts, and
> that
> > is to let a computer do all
> > that time consuming work for you. Our approach is
> to
> > let the computer find *all*
> > the non-laggard stocks currently setting up in cup
> > with handle bases, put them
> > on a watchlist, and then let us know automatically
> > if they are breaking out
> 
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