      In the stock market, information is released, and the fastest marketparticipants react first (the first ones to the polls). Once these marketparticipants have reacted, the opinion is out, and the rest of the herd nowhas the new information that was released as well as the sentiment of thefastest market participants to evaluate. Given this phenomenon, once newinformation is released into the marketplace, the initial weight of theinformation is further compounded by the market's display of publicopinion. In fact, it is reasonable to say that charts are no more thanpublic opinion polls. In the same way that people jump on the bandwagon inpolitical elections, market participants have a propensity to do the same.