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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (90714)	3/30/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: Bryan	Respond to of 108040

Isnt it funny how we always seem to return to the stocks we have been in before.>>> Kind of. I feel for the people that got their a$$es handed to them today in CS, but one thing you have to remember is that in this environment, you cannot be afraid to take profits off the table. If you are trading on margin, then that rule counts double toward you. There is a huge amount of opportunity surfacing right now, but something that is holding back investors at the moment is the fact that many of them are over-leveraged already and cannot afford to buy more or average down due to margin requirements. IMO, you should only trade on margin if you have a solid base of diversified "value" and long-term stocks in your portfolio. If you are severely overweight in technology and you are trading on margin, you're whacked....or you will be whacked soon enough. Of course I never see anything about margin calls here, but I have a feeling there have been a lot lately. I guess I wouldn't admit it either though <ggg>. B- cash is KING