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To: Investor2 who wrote (7360)	8/1/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Digger Sacket	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15132

Very quiet on this thread this weekend. Maybe some also feel that there is too much downside risk to remain 100% invested. Digger

To: Investor2 who wrote (7360)	8/2/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: Wally Mastroly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15132

I2: Some interesting statistics - the summer doldrums? "Indeed, the tendency for stocks to fall in late summer is convincing." >For the broader S&P 500 index, September is the worst month of the year and the index's performance from May to October pales in comparison to its gains from November through April, according to a leading historian on the stock market. Yale Hirsch, editor and publisher of The Stock Trader's Almanac, a bible of facts and figures that is now in its 33rd edition, said that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 in 1950 in the better-performing period would have generated a profit of $340,250. For the other six months, the same $10,000 investment would have yielded meager earnings of $11,138 since 1950, he said. Likewise, the Dow industrials gained a total of nearly 9,500 points in the November-April period since 1950, but it racked up a gain of only 1,120 in the other six-month period, Hirsch said.< biz.yahoo.com Wally M.