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Strategies & Market Trends : Investing for the January Effect 2000 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Q. who wrote (74)	12/29/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 109

Thanks. As of now, I'm adding stocks. Completed my FASH position which is more a "cash" play mixed with tax loss selling and e-tailers totally out of favor. Added CDCO after it stabilised in the low 4s range. Adding badly sold down EYES at 1 3/8, and AMMB 1 5/16 per now, but these 2 are very speculative positions. Buying LSON, includes a possible spinoff fantasy and VIXL, a fallen IPO angel. I see the market turning down a bit, hence maybe a good time to add later today. KLOC and also BTOB left prematurely.... Thanks for your ideas, AOR looks interesting, and also NMGC is destined for better prices.

To: Q. who wrote (74)	12/30/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

<<PDX>> Did you see this?: quote.bloomberg.com

To: Q. who wrote (74)	1/1/2000 5:43:00 AM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

N, Congrats on the nice gain in PROG... and a happy new year! Looks like 2000 can be a year of the small caps (if it is a bullish year at all). I see small caps begin to outperform bigger ones for the first time (Dec 99).

To: Q. who wrote (74)	2/4/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: Q.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 109

Final results for my January Effect picks. stock / mkt cap ($M) / gain AOR 586 - 1% LII 416 +11% NMGC 260 -10% PDX 109 +33% PROG 32 +32% SVM 3,571 +34% average +17% (all gains are net of trading costs) Russell 2000 +10.6% I'm very satisfied with the results: I outperformed the RUT by over 6%, and that's after my trading costs of 2% for commissions plus more for bid/ask spread. I bought in the period Dec. 20 - Dec. 28, and I sold everything by the first Friday in February, or when I had a +35% gain, whichever came first. I think I'll follow the same formula next year. Here's a link with charts etc. for all of them: quote.yahoo.com In December 2000 I will start a new thread for the next January Effect. See all of you then!