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To: Vendit™ who wrote (29170)	8/12/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

Say, Vendit, except for bobby beara where have all the other bears gone? Could it be they are only foul weather bears who only come out when things look really bad? Unlike the bulls who are here come rain or shine? If so, they are a great contrarian indicator. They will show up when we are close to bottoming out.

To: Vendit™ who wrote (29170)	8/12/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Jenne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

I'm Sitting on My Hands By James J. Cramer 8/12/99 8:56 AM ET More squeeze ahead. The bond market's benign reaction to stronger-than-expected retail sales, coupled with Home Depot's (HD:NYSE) better-than-expected report, could ignite things again. When bonds go up (and interest rates down) on bad news (stronger-than-expected numbers), that could signal that they have overshot where they are going to go. For me, I am torn here. I want capitulation. I want crescendo. Maybe that will be just plain too easy. Perhaps the fact that 14 deals were canceled this week amounts to a better clue of capitulation than the panic selling that I have been looking for. I want to buy, not sell. But it may turn out that it is best to do nothing. I am about to call my partner, Jeff, still on vacay, to say, "Heck, the bonds should be down but they are not, and maybe everybody is too short bonds, too." Jeff's take -- and he is IMing me now -- is that if Producer Price Index is good we will not get capitulation. He sends this to me in big cap letters: WAIT TILL 2:30 TO DECIDE. DO NOTHING AT THE OPENING