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To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (43)	5/24/2000 11:04:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 494

Is it not the investor's responsibility to ascertain what environment they are in and to protect themselves? Betting on margin without utilizing stop losses is gambling, plain and simple. Regards, Barb

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (43)	5/24/2000 11:07:00 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 494

Vince, As you know, risk is involved in investing. Risk will jump up and get you at times. Let me backstep some. Although many of the favorite stocks are fine companies, with bright futures; they were overvalued. And these same favorite stocks have been carrying the market averages up for years, while the "other" 95% of the stocks treaded water. What has me and a lot of other people ticked is that the "other 95%" got killed also. It was some sort of a strange twist that has played out as money bailed out of the 95% trying to hold onto the high priced 5%. The Fed has created a market place that is paying absolutely no attention to the fundamentals or progress of a company. This I have to fully agree with: "Markets have a way of correcting themselves. Good companies will prosper while the bad ones will eventually spiral down. What Greenspan has done was to target the markets and manipulate them downwards sending them into a tailspin. This is what I object to. This is no longer a free and open market system." With special emphasis on free and open.