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Technology Stocks : Go2Net Long List of Go2Netrillionaires (GNET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: V. who wrote (1898)	1/6/2000 12:22:00 AM
From: Roger Sherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4201

Wow! Baby "O," and a brilliant "Options" lesson all in one week! Does it get any better than this? And all in the very first week of the YEAR TWO THOUSAND! Not to mention the utterances of one of our fellow Go2Netrillionaires, Carolyn (world "F"amous), being published (yet again) in an article throughout cyberspace, quoting her illustrious posts about her little "beemer" car collection again. <gg> Heck, I still drive an old 55 Chevy, but it gets me to the bank okay once in a while :) And "V" my friend, your little 'Options" trading lesson was the best I've ever read on SI. How do you know all that complicated stuff? For me, however, I don't think it'd ever work. There's no way I could "eliminate all carbs" from my diet. Having to give up beer, pasta, pizza, and ice cream? NO WAY!!! If I ever attempted "options trading," the value of Starbucks stock might double, but I'd end up with a nervous breakdown, and with several ulcers as well as a major hemorrhoid problem. I much prefer to buy a few shares of a great company as early as possible, preferably a nice little local two-guy "start-up" (especially if they all went to the same high school, perhaps Lakeside). Oh say like MSFT (up 86,157.89% since the IPO on 3/13/86), or perhaps GNET (up 4,081.25% since the IPO on 4/1/97), relax, kick my feet up on the sofa, and hold it a while, "just letting it ride" through the ebbs-n'-flows of life. . .for say a decade or two. It's worked pretty well for me so far (check my Profile). And, in the immortal words of Dennis Miller recently (about another "long" term stock holder): "It's just been announced that Bill Gates is the world's wealthiest man, worth over 94 billion! But is he H A P P Y??? He is?. . . . . . . . . . .O H. . .S H * T !!!" Roger #NinerFortyNiner :))) PS. And as Dennis would say, "Just my opinion, I COULD BE WRONG."