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To: Larry Grzemkowski who wrote (8501)	9/12/1999 6:08:00 AM
From: Steve Grabczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Larry: So you're the one with qp2. Where can I find this? Thanks, Steve

To: Larry Grzemkowski who wrote (8501)	9/12/1999 7:59:00 AM
From: OldAIMGuy	Respond to of 18928

Hi Larry, Now to pick the "sweet spot" in that capitalization list! I used to always favor companies with about 100MM Cap. as being big enough to find good data and still small enough to show spectacular growth. However, I got caught in a small cap squeeze for a couple of years. It seemed as though I was the only small cap investor left on the planet. All the big money flows were to the S&P100, S&P500, N-100 and DOW stocks. That really killed my overall performance for the short term. So far 1999 has been better. Large caps have been flattening out while the smaller caps have been growing. My overall cash reserve is healthier than it's been in quite some time as a result of my smaller cap stocks waking up. Of course capitalization figures can be quite deceptive. After all, we had some internet IPO's that within a very short time had cap. figures that exceeded some 100 year old giants of industry! (with squat for sales and zilch for earnings, I might add!!!) In the regular NASDAQ and the NYSE, each week there's about 8800 separate issues that trade. I base my "ZEAL" figure on that value. There's been a net shrinking of the total number of issues available for over a year. This is generally a bullish sign as money has to concentrate into fewer and fewer shares. Thanks for the report, I was surprised with the number of very small cap stocks there are. Interesting distribution! Best regards, Tom