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To: steve mamus who wrote (4043)	3/1/2000 10:37:00 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8096

I noticed that too Steve. And Girish' AFFX is nicely volatile. I'm still waiting for another roller coaster drop on that. To the entire thread: it is amazing to me, charting the sells I did last year, based on buys for the last three years, how indescribably much I have learned on SI in a little over a single year. I have to laugh at my early trades. I got my information from news underneath my Yahoo portfolio, and from articles on Motley Fool. I'm not saying those articles were bad, but they led me to invest in stocks like Exxon and Home Depot. That was in mid 98. When I started "trading" at Charles Schwab and first got on SI, I hardly knew what a put sale was. Ed (edamo) taught me. I wasn't enabled for put sales at that time but somehow I put one through anyway, and it was profitable, but then Schwab disallowed it. I got annoyed and went over to Fidelity, where I've been since. I went on learning, from ed and others, especially one other trading veteran on SI, who gave me hours of training time by PM and on the phone. I cannot believe how this forum allows one to assimilate information so incredibly rapidly and efficiently. I think in part it's because its so interactive--and it actually probably functions more like our brains really do (associative, interactive, not linear learning from a book, a, b, c). It's also because there's such a fast and efficient distillation of industry information and analysis. Really, this is a life changing little cyber community. So to everybody who taught me, thanx. And to everybody who's learning, don't be shy. You'll learn faster than you can imagine. Anyway, I won't be around much tomorrow, or Friday after 10 a.m.. But COMS should keep the market euphoric. Jill