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To: freeus who wrote (11378)4/6/2000 2:04:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 35685
 
It has allowed me to own more of stocks that I wanted than I could have without it.

I've read you posts of margin calls you have received over the last few years. Have you calculated if your returns were really better while you were using it than they would have been without it. (Especially if you exclude your last play on QCOM which is likely distorting the overall figures).

I frequently use margin to rebalance my portfolio, this allows me to buy the replacement before selling the original which sometimes has a cost advantage. I did some bargain hunting this week too, but those will get sold over the next couple of weeks until only unmargained new shares remain.
TP



To: freeus who wrote (11378)4/6/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: techguerrilla  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 35685
 
U.S. News & World Report

. . . . just called me about a story they are doing on margin calls. I told them that more than just margin calls was the problem here. It was the whorehouses such a Fidelity targeting certain tech stocks for raised maintenance levels:
QCOM 80% and ELON 70%, for example.

I told them that the irony was that QCOM had been in a stable trading range for over six weeks.

John


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