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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (68579)	10/3/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

HI Wayne; Welcome to the real world , but it's been this way as far back as I can see. Jim

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (68579)	10/3/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The coming Bear Market I can't say "when" it will arrive but I have the big picture of how it will arrive. Demographics will be the chief cause. While I don't have the data, what to look for will be new job creation numbers vs the retirement numbers. I don't mean hamburger flipping jobs, but jobs that have 401Ks, the main driver in this market is retirement funds. --------------------- Now stocks are just paper ( there is NO money to back them ) and assets values fall right along with the market. To draw out retirement means someone has to "BUY" your shares so when more people start to retire than we have putting money into retirement the market has only one way to go. This is a little overly simple , actually it takes more buyers than sellers just to keep the market from sinking as the overhead causes the market to sink of it's own weight when all you have is one buyer for each seller. ----------------------- Demographics was the basic cause of Japans bear market, and it will happen here. My guess is in about 10 to 12 more years, but that's just a guess if you know how to obtain the data of regular retirement money coming in vs people going on retirement you will get a better picture. Meanwhile market and currency manipulation will let the good old boy gang continue to milk most of the benefits and stash away their profits in secrete accounts or buying up dept they know they can foreclose on. Jim PS Wall street insiders already know this, and the push to get S.S. money into the market is to extend the ponzi scam, as for the most part the market is just one big ponzi scam any time TAX money is tossed into it forget the concept of a free market. It's just a more sophisticated form of communism than Marx was able to dream up.

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (68579)	10/3/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 132070

yep, sofa dude, i agree, but my mistake this year was to not accept this and not play it for what i think or thought it was...the market is down in the am ? go long , for THEY will rescue it...i finally learned, i bought dow poots at 3pm on september 30, figuring if any day was painted, its a qtr end... the five words most commonly heard at my discount brokerage gallery this year : look its coming back now naturally <ng> ike siliconinvestor.com