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To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (46648)	4/16/2000 1:39:00 PM
From: jjs_ynot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

The margin calls over the next several days may wipe out some of the OLB's.

To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (46648)	4/16/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Eddy, That the ordinary trader or investor get`s caught up and his or her life savings vanish in the black hole is the ultimate goal of the Wall Street Gesindel. The folks that participated in the speculation did so with their own free will and were fueled by greed and a lack of knowledge in many cases. They didn't have to put their life savings in. So now another generation of investors has learned a lesson and hopefully will not make the same mistakes again. But the bottom line is no one held a gun to their head. Live by the sword, die by it, right? Michael

To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (46648)	4/16/2000 6:25:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 99985

Eddy, I personally am by no means sure that the "Wall Street Gesindel" is behind it all. I suppose that if one had the will, and the right tracking software, it would be possible to check out that hypothesis,in part by reviewing the size of the sales of vulnerable stocks over the past month. If enough of them are small-size sales, one could presume that individual "ordinary" traders played at least a large a part in the price decline of such stocks as did the Hedge Funds you speak of. To my mind, the really sad thing is that most of these stocks deserved to get hammered. IMO, the companies involved had no business going to investors to get venture capital for questionable enterprises. I would say --don't hold an IPO unless, and until, you can prove you can make a profit. Ah, well.... jbe