<HTML>In a message dated 8/15/2002 7:20:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The cultists at the Elliott Wave Theorist <http://www.elliottwave.com> point out: "The poll was conducted this past July 8-12, four days when the Dow Industrials dropped some 700 points." The bull lives on in many minds. </BLOCKQUOTE> During the early 90's, there was a stock strategist at Lehman Brother's who used to spend many an hour toiling away, sketching really, on a large sheet of engineering paper that stretched across 3-4 desks. When I asked once what he was doing, he answered, 'predicting the market', then started laughing hysterically. He was an elliott wave guy. He was fired two years later. Nomi</HTML>