terps, we are on the same side here I was just alluding to the general term "trend" as refrenced below in the dictionary, to me it has a short term trend down. Not worth extended discussions or taking up anymore time. I understadn your point, we haven't done that bad with the bits of negative press the last week...I just hate to see us sub arb stock price...
"The relatively constant movement of a variable throughout a period of time. The period may be short-term or long-term, depending upon whether the trend itself is short-term or long-term. For example, a rising market is taken to mean that prices of most stocks are in an upward trend."