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To: John Trudeau who wrote (1473)	3/7/2000 1:41:00 AM
From: trilobyte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1762

Provocation to all!! Since there's been alot of talk about market strategies, here are a few that I think are not mentioned often enough and will probably be disagreed with by most posters on this thread!! 1) the past teaches us NOTHING about the future of the market. Comparisons to tulip mania, crash of 1929, 1987, are worthless and only feed usual intermittent feers about stock markets. 2) one of the biggest mistakes an investor can do is selling stock way way way too soon! You cannot be satisfied with a 100% gain if the stock skyrockets another 500% 6 months after you sold it... even if it does so for "irrational" reasons. The successful investor tries to understands/predict market irrationality! The point is, money you took out of the outperforming stock is probably languishing is some "safe" underperforming asset. 3) Investing is an ART! Forget about p.e's, p/s's, market caps... it's the (future) story, stupid! That is why I bought TOM, and why I am still holding on to all my shares! 4) avoid penny stocks... (with some very rare exceptions: currently, my ONLY penny stock is TOM) They are the playing grounds of bigtime stock manipulators. blast away, friends! Trilobyte