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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (86210)	12/5/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

huh ? who can say with certainty, such and such is a stock that WILL appreciate by 15 %, (to borrow from Mr Archer), not a penny more, not a penny less...nobody knows what a stock WILL do for certain... stocks have a habit of doing better than we think they will or worse than we think they will. i think you have realized the former may occur and thusly held on to some mega winners. i know a guy who bought research in motion up here (you have it on the naz now) at 6 and sold at 16, very proud of himself. its 80 now (in canuck dollars)...others buy a small cap, see them go down, and do the dumb desperate thing of averaging down , never realizing the stock might just go to zero, which is incidentally the only time a broker and investor is totally honest about the future prospects... if you've got a stock with an absolute iron clad guarantee of 15 % for a year, i'll put all my $ into it and shut the computer for a year...but that's fantasy. the reality is there is no such thing. off topic ? you play chess william ? ike