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To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 8:22:00 AM
From: Apollo	Respond to of 54805

Compliments to the thread....great comments the past 12 hours on Gorilla definitions and JDSU. The past 12 hours defines what is great about the thread. Oh, yeah, and about those Canadians, I would just like to add................ Apollo <vbg>

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: DaYooper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I've hesitated to participate, Snas, since gg is but one of my investment philosophies. I'm more aggressive, I think, than the whole here. As Lindy eloquently stated, gg is a most conservative approach with excellent returns. But I'm taking more risks for greater expected returns: QCOM 35% RNWK 32% GMST 6% MSFT 5% INTC 5% CSCO 5% ORCL 4% YHOO 3% AOL 3% MISC. 2% I'm 39 and 120% equities with margin(sorry Unq)so I hold the silverbacks as my bonds so to speak. And this is not a retirement account, thus changes would be a taxable event. Looking forward to giving thanks, Rory

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: Sunny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Apollo, I am 100% invested. The funds are now in 4 stocks: QCOM = 48% GMST = 27% SEBL = 17% CREE = 7% Qcom is the only stock that I held at the beginning of the year. I have shed myself of all of my shiny and not so shiny peebles as well as selling INTC, MSFT and EMC to reinforce these 4. Sunny

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: Curbstone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Aloha Stan, here's my portfolio breakdown as of today: QCOM 89% WIND 9% GSTRF 2% AM

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Stu R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

CORE HOLDINGS (have held for over 1 year): QCOM 65 ADPT 10 SUNW 6 CD 4 CA 2 ADDITIONS DURING YEAR THANKS TO SUCCESS OF CORE ABOVE: All between .5 AND 2.5 GBLX,UMG,TVGIA,BMCS,VOX,BRCM,THQI,MDT,CIEN,GSTRF,MFNX,SNDK Winners may become core and losers will be sent walking. In addition I am on margin and am long QCOM calls and short QCOM puts. Any comments + or - ? Stu

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Portfolio: Roughly (as of this morning, as the percentages seem to change daily as per the volatility!) VTSS 18% AOL 15% QCOM 14% AAPL 13% NTAP 12% CSCO 11% INTC 8% GMST 6% RMBS 5% This portfolio does not include my retirement accounts, which are worth about 20% of my investment portfolio, and are comprised of index kinds of funds and growth mutual funds. My plan with the portfolio above is to lighten the VTSS holding (probably sell half on strength), probably eliminate AAPL altogether, and add to GMST and QCOM as I go along. I am tempted to buy into others, such as JDSU and GBLX, but am trying to consolidate! Jeff

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Rickus123	Respond to of 54805

Here's mine: QCOM -- 80% GMST -- 10% JDSU -- 10% As more cash becomes available, I will be trying to get this to about 50/25/25 (Q/G/J), but the way the Q has been going lately, that may be hard to do <g>. --Rick

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Firewalker	Respond to of 54805

Qcom- 100% 1st shares purchased March 8 this year with a gradual consolidation at average per share cost of 250.

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/24/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: RoseCampion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Snasraway, I can't believe you're both able and willing to try to make sense out of the blizzard of numbers that we're all piling onto you...but truly, my thanks all the same (if only because this was an exercise I hadn't gone through in a long time). For what it's worth, combining all my various retirement, UTMA, and taxable accounts together: QCOM 61.0% CNXT 6.5% GMST 3.5% (want more!) IBM 2.5% (bought bottom-fishing during the big Oct meltdown, not a LTH by any means) GBLX 1.0% DMRK 1.0% (former client) VSIO 1.0% (indirect play on acquirer MSFT) (Various 1.5% (received as IPOs; to be 'flipped' 15-45 days after IPO date) Inuts) ...and to round it out: Fido Contrafund 8.0% (ten year hold, will cash out in early 2000 to feed G&K hunger) CASH 14.0% A large majority of these holdings are in ITM LEAPS or DDIM calls rather than stock - at this moment in my investing career, I am heavily using these types of vehicles for better leverage, in preference to common purchased on margin (of which I have none). I am also short a number of Jan00 Q puts. I plan to write more soon. The Contrafund does provide the margin to make this possible (as the calls and LEAPS are not marginable), so it's not as much of a total loss as one would think. Finally, the large current cash balance not completely intentional, caused by expiration-day sale of Oct Q calls and exiting of a few laggards. Was waiting with this as dry powder for the moment that Q or JDSU or NTAP dropped. (Clearly, I should have followed the FM here. <g>) Suggestions (and the concommitant encouragement) to spend it are welcome. My best to all on this, what I think of as the finest of holidays. -Rose-

To: Apollo who wrote (11045)	11/25/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: mariner	Respond to of 54805

Stan I run two portfolios one Cdn/one US: US: QCOM 60% CSCO 20% PMCS 7 (although based here in BC) NTAP 8 WCOM 3 CREE 2 CAN: JDU 80% BBD 15 IW 5 The last one is an indirect play on the Q. A shiny pebble which provides a software solution to Wireless Knowledge. For the purposes of this thread the Cdn positions are not really GG subjects with the exception of JDSU.