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To: At_The_Ask who wrote (46662)	8/15/2003 4:56:39 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) of 52237

That 15% was during the bull market !!... Stuff a lot of people don't realize... 1 Most brokers will try to steer a new trader into mutual funds.. Not so much for the fees..but they know FUNDs do better than most traders.. 2 While few funds beat the S&P they have a lot of advantage over the retail trader.. A: Funds have buying power, not every thing they buy is open market, they often get discounts when buying and can make buys the where the retail market don't see the price. B: Back when IPOs were making big bucks, & retail traders couldn't get shares..the Funds got them. C: Funds often get inside information ( indirectly ) but it's useful.. ------ If Most Funds didn't have an advantage over the retail trader they would be in bad shape as there are more funds in the market than issues. ---- The alternative is to get into a tracking issue.. the mdy is safest for the long term buy and hold newbe finance.yahoo.com --- finance.yahoo.com had some one got in the MDY in 1999..he be up 50% in spite of the bear market.. ---- Longer term finance.yahoo.com --- The QQQ has more action but it's not for newbees or Buy and Hold types the trouble with buy and hold types is not their intentions, however personal problems can and often do force a sale at wrong time.. Divorce being #1 on the list.. Jim

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