RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Inves...... It's a little difficult to understand your first sentence, but I will forgive you since English is not your first language. (Is French? Seems you mispelled "radote", or perhaps that was a typo.)
Anyway, how can I possibily have an opinion on whether or not a like you, when I have never met you. All I have is the content of your posts. There are some things I do like about you, your taste in music for example. The fact that I disagree (sometimes forcefully) with some of the things you say has no bearing. I do not dislike people because I disagree with them. There is nothing I like better than a good argument.
I will take it as read that you understand the mathematics behind TA, but the mathematics does not tell you when its use is appropriate. You might want to read the classic "How to lie with statistics" to get my drift. Here's a simple example of what iImean about sparse data:
If I calculate the average age of Canadians, by using a very large sample picked randomly from the population, then I can be pretty sure my result is accurate. If I take only two people, picked at random, one is 7 and the other 93 then the average (50) tells me nothing about the true average of Canadians (even if correct!). It doesn't even tell me anything about the two people I chose.
Now let's look at RIM. I certainly do not think that its current pps represent is true current value (I do not believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis), but it does tell me what the investing community thinks about it's value, which can be useful information. Paired with historical information, TA can tell me something (I believe) about future price movement. Do you think that 25 cents is the true value of AMA currently? The community trading AMA is so small, and the trading so little, that the current and historical prices do not tell me anything. Of course, I believe its true value is higher, but the only thing telling me this is fundamentals.
You can disagree with my argument if you wish and I will not dislike you (or like you) for doing so.
Piper