'doc80ca'
OK, Never happy and like to try to grasp one thing at a time.
Prior to mide calling attention to hedge fund traders, I was not concerned with them. I didn't expect them to zero in that fast to GTE. But I did expect to see some intuitional fund traders playing.
As we know now it was the other way around. The more I think about today's AH, I think the 166k at $2.98 was institutional and the 40k at $3.00 was hedge guys.
So now I'm going to start paying attention to intuitional trading again. There has been some good posts on the main board about Russell's from several board members. I recommend doing some reading past posts to get a handle on that.
My experience is that institutional investing is a good thing for stocks. Went you see them start to buy, you can feel the company is more financially stable. But as noted on the other board, it may be required buying due to GTE getting no the Russell list.
At any rate people should start to pay attention to any indication of continued or initial institutional trades being made. They add strength to the company and usually determine a stock present actual value for the market.
As with hedge trades, they like to try to break up their trades, so their move in and out of a company will not effect to PPs, as they do. Todays AH was rather unusual and probably due to required buying. I don't expect continued move to be so out in the open.
IMO Thomas info is an aid, but not accurate, because they do the same as we would, but with software. They locate unusually large trades, concider them as instuitions and list
them all together. Our job will be to pick out hedge trades from instuitions. LOL
Just my opinion.
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