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From: Iain Anderson:
Subject: re: Stock prediction
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>Some of the most violent swings in the DOW and TSE index in the last three
>years have occured in the last couple of months.  Although most people on
>the floor say that `Program Trading' only accounts for ten percent of
>the volume, most experts point at Program Trading as being the cause of
>these instabilities.  

The 'Program Trading' that you mention here does not utilise NN's - they are simply trades generated by a computer when instruments reach a certain level ie if IBM = 50 sell 1MM




