Mlsoft thank you very much for your quick response I did not post early yesterday so as to not clutter the thread during the trading session, and was unable to access the net yesterday night do to hard disk upgrade gone awry
Since my ability to stay in front of the monitor is limited my trading style has evolved such that I always set a hard stop loss within 30 minutes of establishing a position. Because of this I have had less luck in the NYSE specialist issues and tend to stay away from them or trade them in smaller lots with a much longer time frame without hard stops . I did very well with ACF last year because of your mentioning it. Thanks for that one as well as all your past and present efforts.