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To: Diamond Jim who wrote (9897)	12/13/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Top Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

Nervous shorts? Pathetic bantering is a dead give away. OLB's are about to pull a Linux or a B2B and you know it. The volume on the NAZ has been incredible. Look at the 1 yr chart and you'll see OLB's were strong in May after the rest of the inets faded in Mid-April. Profit taking in NASD will come soon but the money will go somewhere. EGRP has not moved like YHOO, CMGI, RNWK, CMRC, INKT, other gorillas. Money will come here. Mgmt has shown the ability to manage finances remarkably well. Their (yet unreported) non-operating gain of $270M will sustain their ability for brand dominance and international expansion. What do you think will happen when this gain from ISLD shows up on the 10Q? Look at AOL's business model and market cap if you need a basis education in market positioning. EGRP's mamangement team has been brilliant in their execution and financial management. Bezos move over. There is more $ to be made enabling worldwide trading & banking then selling books & toys. IMHO, market caps for AMZN and EGRP will reverse. You are short the wrong stock. Have you checked the short ratio on EGRP lately? Scary. Good luck with your trades. TJ

To: Diamond Jim who wrote (9897)	12/20/1999 3:48:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

ETrade (EGRP:Nasdaq) said today that the Office of Thrift Supervision had deemed its application for its merger with Telebanc Financial (TBFC:Nasdaq) complete, indicating that the OTS would likely approve the merger in the near future. Salomon Smith Barney analyst Richard Zandi wrote that assuming the merger goes through, its exchange ratio is 1.05 ETrade shares for each Telebanc share. E*Trade was off 1 1/8, or 3.7%, at 28 15/16, while Telebanc was up 15/16, or 3.4%, at 28 3/16.