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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (36482)	1/3/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

PLease Plaese lord hear my prayer and send a lightning bolt You forgot amen. Amen!

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (36482)	1/3/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

<<<PLease Plaese lord hear my prayer and send a lightning bolt onto the roofs of these companies and let them fall 90% over night to teach this market that fundamentals do count. UFB!!!!! well poot ! tomorrow ? maybe...i think by march 1 for sure... don't feel bad...i was counting my 'profits' on ebay jan 80 poots...ho ho, i'll be eating tuna today...heck i'll be eating tuna for awhile anyway... ike

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (36482)	1/3/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: HairBall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Lee: You have to take your emotions out of the equation, period! This Market is giving some "in your face" clues as to what is in progress! In the mean time, take advantage of the speculative bottle rockets with speculative monies. Keep the speculative investment level constant by taking profits along the way and tucking them into more secure vehicles. To keep one's entire grubstake in the speculative issues is to join the mania and become one with the asylum. Do not buy into the mania and the mantra "new era". A "new era" does not exist, but do not let that fact keep you from making money in this manic market. Do not believe the hype, but one must adapt to the current game! Maintain control by managing your exposure to the speculative issues, take profits along the way and tuck those profits into more secure vehicles! Regards, LG

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (36482)	1/3/2000 5:40:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Here, have some Vix vaporub... quote.yahoo.com

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (36482)	1/3/2000 6:29:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

re: I am just sitting here frozen unable to do anything: You obviously didn't learn anything in 1999. Here are 1999's successful Principles of Investing: 1. What goes up must go.........up....and up.....and up 2. earnings don't matter. Just about half of the Russell 2000 stocks went down for the year. They were the half that had earnings. 3. balance sheets don't matter. If a company funds its growth out of IPO money, and debt, its stock goes up. If it funds its operations out of past earnings, its stock goes down. The most successful business strategy in 1999 is this: sell a commodity at below cost, spend every penny you have on advertising, and be rewarded by Wall Street for rapidly ramping sales. Don't worry that losses are ramping just as fast (see Investing Principle #2, above). For the textbook example, see AMZN. 4. interest rates don't matter. Well, they do, but not for tech companies. The tech industry marches to the beat of a different drummer, its cycles don't match the business cycle, which is extinct anyway. If you could grasp this Principle, you'd understand how the Nasdaq could be up 61 points on the day the long bond rates soared to 6.62% 5. the more leveraged you are, the higher your returns. Risk is your friend. 6. the only things that matter are: the story, the concept, the buzz, the momentum.