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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (87655)	12/16/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

At 1 trillion dollars, microsoft could never be purchased by another company on earth. So an investor can never hope to be bought out. KIS, you've got some very basic questions about investing in stocks, which you should probably answer to your own satisfaction before you buy any shares of stock. MSFT will be worth $1T relatively soon at this pace of technological and economical growth, unless they are divided (which should be a great relief to you, since the next biggest, GE, does pay a dividend in your eyes that changes everything). Randy

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (87655)	12/16/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Respond to of 164684

People didn't head for the hills when Yahoo hit $10 billion or nearly $100 billion; what makes you think anyone's going to run when Microsoft hits $1 trillion? Nobody is performing discounted cash flow analyses on stocks. Your time is better spent analyzing the "scheme" and determining the factors that will affect per share valuation: dilution and net capital flows to and from the market. In the former you have IPOs, option related selling, and companies' new issues. In the latter you have a plethora of mostly unkown factors. You seem like a bright individual. Sadly, you torpedo your credibility by bragging about your trading. That bragging is just noise that detracts from your message. You're "being serious here"? It's hard to tell when your closing comment is about how much money you make.