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To: BANCHEE who wrote (18932)	1/19/2000 1:01:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 57584

What do you think as you look out of that window?,,, Sorry for late response. . . .ATHM service crashed for 2 hours this AM. . .had to use AOL via phone lines. . . .like watching the Indy 500 in slow motion. -----------------------Here was response-------------------- I think that once more the SPOOS was painted lower to favor the large players [brokerages, hedge funds, etc.] . . . all the stocks I checked that gapped up, immediately started lower. . .they gave it their best try to force this market lower. . . .but through the morning, we have been seeing some random short covering. . . due to the strength that will not leave the tech stocks. . . due to us! Individual Investors are driving this market, IMO. However, I fear the Individual Investors may lose steam today or tomorrow. . .giving way to large players going short all at once. . .leading to a very sharp correction. . . in Nasdaq. . . .Better to take fewer gains by not holding overnight and jumping back in at the next days lows. . . than to get greedy hoping for some big gap up day [which hasn't happened much this month] . . .of course this doesn't affect our core positions. I bought LU, I took profits on XYBR for now. . .I sold some small caps. . .added to JDSU, CMGI, PLUG. . . added to IRSN on slowly growing momentum. . .haven't bought CORL yet. . .waiting for shorts to lose momentum and interest. . .LPTHA is holding its own. . . it does a little better job of consolidating gains than in the past. . .and certainly better than HEAR. Rande Is PS>>>>>>>>>>Also found a post to Bob that got swallowed from a crash several days ago. . . on Monday, I believe. . . . . --------------------Bonus Post-----------------<smirk> Agreed, Bob. Vertical Net has an impressive portfolio of B2B companies, but lacks the 'know how' of bringing them to market [as IPOs]. . . Softbank has this. . . .Together, they can start snatching up Japan's rapidly growing B2B market. . . .and as you pointed out, in return, Softbank gets a free ticket into the American B2B E-Commerce market. . . through Vertical Net. . . .it is a match made in heaven. . . or in this case, Tokyo. In my opinion, this deal takes Vertical Net from the realm of the potent into that of the powerful. Both Vertical Net and Softbank make excellent issues to buy and hold moving forward through 2000. I suspect Tuesday to be huge for both. Look for ICGE to do same with CMGI. . . heck, they already share 3 common letters. . . . <g> Maybe by pooling their moneys, they could buy a vowel and give us an actual name. . . like Hardbank or Venture Net or Ventura Highway. . . yeah, I like that one. Rande Is