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Show FOR INVESTORS Check Your Charts Before Making Decisions Brokerage offices are harvesting har-vesting a new crop of commodities com-modities investors by providing pro-viding clients with comprehensive compre-hensive statements. Each month, Bache ; Halsey Stuart Shields customers cus-tomers receive, in addition ta-a summary of their trading trad-ing activity and account position, po-sition, as many as 27 charts. The charts deliver a visual presentation of the price performance of each commodity com-modity the client holds. 85 013 I a; . 669 I I? . 135 I S6 . 9. 7 J 4 . 586 .s-llh r 5 . ;bi - i I as to I DEC i i; n - jj The IBM computer (Traph-ics (Traph-ics enable investors to aeter-mine aeter-mine at a glance recent trends in purchases and sales of commodities. "This new commodities commodi-ties statement was designed to provide additional information in-formation and remove the mystique associated with the commodities business," says Hal Rich, Bache's senior sen-ior vice president of computer com-puter systems and corporate communications. The account statements are processed by IBM computers com-puters linked to a 3800 printing subsystem that uses laser technology to obtain printing speeds of up to 20,000 lines per minute. |