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[Chilidawgz]

here is an old interview with John I had on one of my HD's

link

[Chilidawgz]

[Sentient Being]

Thanks for the chart Interesting material.

[cgnx]

I think Bollinger has added 0 value to my forward looking views on market direction. I keep looking for some genius but it never presents itself. How did he get a job in that field?

[flyers&divers]

I find Bollinger's volatility bands to be one of the more practical tools for the trader. He never claimed to predict markets (unlike us). In addition I find his website extremely useful. IMHO he is definitely one of the people in the business who conduct themselves with dignity and integrity. How did he get into the biz? It is very interesting. Please listen to the interview at the link provided. Happy Neww Year Regards, F&D

[Chilidawgz]

I got started in trading by watching John Bollinger and Ed Hart on FNN before NBC raped the integrity of the folks involved. As flyer noted, John and Ed are and were men of quality and stood apart from many others paraded in and out on FNN and later, especially on the financial industries longest running infomercial,CNBC. chili ============================================================================== "We'll know in the fullness of time." Often delivered to the viewers and Ed's classic line. Ron Insana - Two rooms attached to the main newsroom. One was for the associate producers and segment producers who put together the taped pieces that filled out the day's newscasts. Still another room housed some of FNN's on-air specialists, of whom John Bollinger was one. John, along with the late Ed Hart, provided much of FNN's commentary about the day's market events. Ed Hart was a grizzled veteran of business news. While working for FNN, Ed also delivered daily business reports for KFWB, a Los Angeles -- area all-news radio station that battled to compete with its bigger local rival, KNX. Ed was a curmudgeon's curmudgeon. A salty character with a taste for dirty jokes, Ed was, and shall ever remain, the best business journalist I have worked with. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of economic and market history. He had a frightening photographic memory and a rapier wit. He suffered no fools and never felt shy about identifying your intellectual shortcomings. But, he had a great heart and loved nothing more than business news, except sailing and dancing. On one particularly busy news day, our then-managing editor walked into the newsroom while the entire staff was on deadline and asked for help with a word game with which he was struggling. Everyone else was struggling with getting a show on the air, but our fearless leader failed to notice, preoccupied with the weighty matter of completing the "jumble" or some such thing. He asked out loud if anyone knew the definition of "jejune." Only Ed Hart bothered to reply. "It's the month before Ju-July," Ed snapped, and walked away. Ed had more important things on his mind most often, and they frequently centered on being accurate, timely, and insightful. He was all of the above. He was early with his market calls, always right, and his information was delivered in a highbrow manner that will likely never be duplicated again. Cramer - Because I was trading between classes in law school and from my dorm room as I watched FNN (Bill, Sue and Ron take note!! You were my teachers along with the late, great Ed Hart, whose advice about stocks and their relationship to interest rates was worth more than my whole three-year tuition for Harvard Law), I was always in a rush. Those days I would place all my bets before going into class, then read the Journal stock pages during class, come out and get my reports, go back into class and then sit in front of the TV and trade some more.

[cgnx]

I got started in trading by watching John Bollinger and Ed Hart on FNN before NBC raped the integrity of the folks involved. As flyer noted, John and Ed are and were men of quality and stood apart from many others paraded in and out on FNN and later, especially on the financial industries longest running infomercial,CNBC.

chili
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"We'll know in the fullness of time." Often delivered to the viewers and Ed's classic line.

Ron Insana - Two rooms attached to the main newsroom. One was for the associate producers and segment producers who put together the taped pieces that filled out the day's newscasts. Still another room housed some of FNN's on-air specialists, of whom John Bollinger was one. John, along with the late Ed Hart, provided much of FNN's commentary about the day's market events. Ed Hart was a grizzled veteran of business news. While working for FNN, Ed also delivered daily business reports for KFWB, a Los Angeles -- area all-news radio station that battled to compete with its bigger local rival, KNX.

Ed was a curmudgeon's curmudgeon. A salty character with a taste for dirty jokes, Ed was, and shall ever remain, the best business journalist I have worked with. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of economic and market history. He had a frightening photographic memory and a rapier wit. He suffered no fools and never felt shy about identifying your intellectual shortcomings. But, he had a great heart and loved nothing more than business news, except sailing and dancing.

On one particularly busy news day, our then-managing editor walked into the newsroom while the entire staff was on deadline and asked for help with a word game with which he was struggling. Everyone else was struggling with getting a show on the air, but our fearless leader failed to notice, preoccupied with the weighty matter of completing the "jumble" or some such thing. He asked out loud if anyone knew the definition of "jejune." Only Ed Hart bothered to reply. "It's the month before Ju-July," Ed snapped, and walked away. Ed had more important things on his mind most often, and they frequently centered on being accurate, timely, and insightful. He was all of the above. He was early with his market calls, always right, and his information was delivered in a highbrow manner that will likely never be duplicated again.

Cramer - Because I was trading between classes in law school and from my dorm room as I watched FNN (Bill, Sue and Ron take note!! You were my teachers along with the late, great Ed Hart, whose advice about stocks and their relationship to interest rates was worth more than my whole three-year tuition for Harvard Law), I was always in a rush. Those days I would place all my bets before going into class, then read the Journal stock pages during class, come out and get my reports, go back into class and then sit in front of the TV and trade some more.

I watched those guys too. Both were useless. But I still watched. I think Insana and Bollinger were at odds. Insana knew Bollinger was a poser. Bollinger Bands my [bleeep]. He can fool most of the folks and thats all you need. Ed reminded me of Don Knotts. I bet his knees were knockin under the table. lol

[cgnx]

Ed would always say, "There's tension on the tape".

[Sentient Being]

Chilidawgz,

A question on your chart. The Red 3 period EMA. What is that the average of and what does the (0.65) stand for?

[Chilidawgz]

Chilidawgz,

A question on your chart. The Red 3 period EMA. What is that the average of and what does the (0.65) stand for?

the 3 Day exponential average is of the NASDAQ up volume divided by the down volume. The EMA smooths out the data. The .65 refers to the scale at the left which is not important. What is important is when the EMA turns after price hits the Bollinger bands. That's where price may be turning. Of course you don't make your bet on one indicator