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To: Poet who wrote (3754)	2/27/2000 3:43:00 PM
From: Teflon	Respond to of 8096

Here's a little tidbit for you...(note, this news effects GMST as well as QCOM) quote.bloomberg.com Sony, Toshiba, 14 Others Adopt Qualcomm Standard, Nikkei Says By Neha Kumar Tokyo, Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp. and 14 other electronics makers worldwide will use technology developed by U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. that allows mobile phone users to access the Internet at high speeds, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported without citing sources. The Qualcomm system enables users to send and receive data across the Internet 32 times faster than by using fixed integrated services digital network lines and does not require the use of costly fiber optic networks. The 16 companies, which include U.S.-based Lucent Technologies Inc., plan to urge the International Telecommunications Union to recognize the technology as a global standard within this year, the report said. Toshiba on Feb. 21 said it aims to broadcast in Japan music and movies held by America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. in Japan on digital satellite and cable television. (Nihon Keizai, 2/27, p.7) To access the Nihon Keizai Web site, type NKEI NYSE/AMEX delayed 20 min. NASDAQ delayed 15 min. Teflon

To: Poet who wrote (3754)	2/27/2000 4:02:00 PM
From: tranzz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8096

I am definitely selling the MAR 250 before the split. However, the ETEK Mar 200 with the added 10 shares/contract pre- split is difficult to walk away from, I am thinking of also exercising (margin). June 200, got a little time, perhaps just hold till May. I appreciate your response.

To: Poet who wrote (3754)	2/27/2000 6:33:00 PM
From: Cosmo Daisey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8096

Ramblings for a Sunday, In the 80's many people acumulated great wealth in the stock market. In the 90's many people also acumulated great wealth. The difference is, some of the 80's people went to jail and those that didn't were insiders and market professionals who epitomized the book title "where are the customers' yachts?" In the 90's and hopefully the 00's things have changed, now it's the person next door. I was at a Christmas party and the talk turned to the market and the buzz in the room was someone in our group had made a million in December. I was interested in talking to that person until I realized they were talking about me. What to do with the wealth? The SI threads are about creating wealth but what to do after is a puzzle. On the one hand we can continue the course that brought us here and the other tells us to protect the portfolio. Protection may mean moving a big chunk of assets into CD's (now @ 6.76%) Pretty boring when you think about it but when you think about the market risk and volatility and the prospects of maybe going back to a day job it feels pretty good. Treasuries aren't any better because the interest rate volatility may erode your cost, REIT's track the rate also. If you have enough, 6.75% is plenty. Voltaire talks about writing covered calls and that interests me but I must confess my market experience is long and short common so I am trying to follow the conversation as I read a book about options. I miss the volatility, those days of $150,000 gains are calling me. The hot sector is biotech and the Naz is on fire. I have been trading the Q's and positiong BBH the biotech tracking stock from Merrill Lynch. The Q's are great because the naz indes leads QQQ most of the time. BBH has doubled since introduction, was anybody watching? The other ML Holdr's PPH, HHH, TTH are skunks but if those sectors recover it's a pretty good place to put some conservative bucks. Anybody have any ideas for conservative investments? cdaisey@protect-the-assets.com