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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SHGLaw who wrote (56905)	5/29/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: Mrs. Hoghead	Respond to of 122087

SHG: You got it. (Just wish I could have been as succinct). I'm frankly surprised by the civility demonstrated by those who responded to my devil's advocate post. The greatest generosity we can offer is an exchange of ideas unfettered by petty emotions. Again, this ain't philanthropy or evangelism, its money makin! We're not saving souls, curing cancer or advancing world peace. We're all trying to figure out how to make buck. That's why we're here. I simply fail to understand the posthumous mentality of parading heads on sticks and jeering at unsophisticated investors who have chosen to go long and loyal on a stock simply because they haven't grasped the Machiavellian nature of successful market play. I think the repost today from the poor man who had lost everthing showed extreme callousness in its use as an example of poor DD. At one time or another each of us has used poor judgment, and we should all consider ourselves lucky that our lapse wasn't as catastrophic. Don't any of you remember getting sea monkeys when you were kids? They had cool pictures of little critters with faces who would grow before your eyes ... They were horrible little brine shrimp with none of the kewpie like characteristics shown on the package. Even though some of us were warned by parents or siblings, we still believed we'd have a tank full of animated monkeys for our viewing pleasure. I'm coming to my conclusion here: Don't deny a man his sea monkeys. Don't delight in his brine shrimp. There, with a double twisting flip I've dismounted the soap box and .... I've stuck the landing... oops, a step back. That will be a subtraction ... Cheers all.