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To: Joe Smith who wrote (4537)4/2/1999 8:20:00 AM
From: Knight  Read Replies (2) of 10309
 
I agree about excercising options. No reason to excercise until
you're ready to sell. If this were the CEO who owned 0 shares, I
would be a little more suspicious. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but
isn't it sort of an unwritten rule that most CEO's of major company's
hold at least some position in their company's stock merely as
an expression confidence in their company.)

Like the earlier poster, I'm starting to get a little suspicious that
the Jan. drop was due to something that's not yet public. I owned
Vantive Corp. this summer and got burnt on something like this.
One thing I learned from that experience is that the little guy
is at a major disadvantage when investing in stocks with high
institutional ownership. Regardless of any laws about insider
information, it still gets leaked to institutions ahead before
the individual investor. In the case of Vantive, the stock dropped
steadily for a week or two with absolutely no news. After the
stock was trounced, they came out and said something like: "ah...remember we said we were going to grow at 70% a year, make
that 20%."

With that said, let me add: I purchased Vantive in Jan. because I
believe in their long-term future. I still believe in their long-
term future, I just wouldn't be surprised to learned that in Jan. institutions found out about some things that will affect VNTV
negatively in the short-term.

Notes about me: I am relatively new to investing in individual
stocks, and Vantive is the only really bad experience I've had.
Perhaps I'm a little too cynical about the availability of insider
information to institutions and the extreme disadvantage of the
individual investor here. For the more seasoned investors on
the thread: Do you think I'm too cynical here?
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