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Technology Stocks : Softbank Group Corp -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bobkansas who wrote (3872)	2/13/2000 10:17:00 PM
From: ms.smartest.person	Respond to of 6018

Thanks, no can do -- boo hoo. Our portfolio is in a Retirement IRA with a broker (Gruntal) who I do not think can buy Softbank for us. Also, if they could there are lots of procedures that have to be followed: paper shuffling that takes 3 weeks, commission for sell and buy, and if we are not careful, Uncle Sam might grab a share. We cannot transfer money market IRA monies to Wit to participate in Alta Vista IPO. I also think that if a stock is not trading here with ADRs they (Gruntal) would not approve. Also, we just became investors in a MOVIE (hope you all go and see it -- don't know the name). That money should be freed up in early summer and maybe then we can do a Jay Chen and buy on the dip. Obviously, if it splits or drops dramatically (which I can't see happening without a major "correction" we will find a way to get some. Our not owning Softbank is MY fault.I have been lurking on this board for months and should have told him about Softbank when it was around 500, then I would be an equal relative. I have only been doing this since last summer when my husband lost part of his vision. Now I do all the DD for us and I have had lots of stuff on my watch list that I never told him about. I am black and blue from kicking myself. Gee, just remembered, I think I left QCOM off my previous list -- and JDSU, NT, NOK, ERICY -- guess I should not be so hard on myself -- have hard time keeping track of everything. Happy Valentine's Day. Merry