      Depending upon overall market trends and fluctuations, both on anintermediate (weekly and monthly) and short-term (hourly and daily) basis,different trading strategies must be used to realize and capitalize onprice movements. From an intermediate perspective, the equity market at thetime this book was written (early 1998) has recently broken out from aperiod of consolidation (volatile sideways movement of the overall market)to a bullish trend. From a short-term perspective, the market