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To: Mephisto who wrote (37784)	10/4/2000 12:06:12 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) of 70976

Small Investors: Does anyone know if other small investors hold their ground? I read a piece in the SJ Mercury news recently that said that the small investor is much smarter than the institutions. Institution money managers get fired for coming in last so they sell into weakness so they don't get stuck with the lowest performance when snapshots are taken. The article had a good study that showed that there was higher volatility in stocks with high institutional ownership indicating they went in and out more. Even notice how once institutions dump a stock, such as UTEK at one point, then bad news really didn't move the stock any lower? I've seen this for other stocks as well. I was starting to think you look for stocks that still have bad news but don't go down. THis means institutions are out and the stock should only go up once they start to buy again. FWIW... They still like to make fun of the "unsophisticated individual investor" but we usually win in the long term if we are not the type to sell in panics and buy when stocks are hitting new highs...

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