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To: Mare Britton who wrote (8165)	12/16/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Master (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

To All Longs - What a relief!!! I was anticipating the worst. I guess yesterday's selloff was an over-reaction. Similarly, my ulcer is also relieved. Master

To: Mare Britton who wrote (8165)	12/16/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: Peter H. Mack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

I just found a technique that seems to work quite well. did you know that if you go to Island, and hit the button to put it into a new window, you can be reading messages here and have Island work in the background? As for how long to hold this? After reading hundreds of messages, I have come to the conclusion that an awful lot of posters have been bashers. I tried following yahoo and the msgs were being posted faster than I could look at them by far. (Most without substance) Except for you know who, the quality has been much better here. I suggested a while back that P/S ratio seemed to give a quick comparison between stocks.. Obviously now that our stock is lower, its potential for going up is better.... By the way I have found others who have mounted the Deluxe version of Linux.. Everybody who tries it seems to be very enthusiastic. I went long at 4. and am still holding.

To: Mare Britton who wrote (8165)	12/16/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: DJ Oglesby	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

I've no idea where CORL (the stock) is headed, and neither does anyone else. They're all just guessing, and sometimes some of them are right. I'm long at (cringe) 33, but I was long at 26 a few days back and thought I was gonna have to take a big hit when it dropped to 18, but then it came back and I ended up selling at 29. If it goes back to the teens, I'll probably dump it, lick my wounds, and move on. OT,IMHO, with apologies,etc., I offer the following: Alot of people who daytrade, or try to, neglect position sizing, so they're devastated by every loss. I was lucky enough to learn the importance of position sizing from a trading book before ever making my first trade; and I feel it is one of the best things a person can know about trading. About 1 out of 3 of my trades is a loss, but the average is nicely on the positive side. Apologize that this is more of an answer than you asked for, but I'm fully positioned right now and a little bored. Good luck to you.