To: elpolvo who wrote (24010 ) 6/29/2000 12:29:00 AM From: Dealer Respond to of 35685
AFTERHOURS QUOTES Voltaire's Porch Basket of Stocks These Stock Have Not Been Picked By Any One Individual GORILLA--A company that controls it market because it has a discontinuous innovation ,one that is not compatible with existing systems. The market is in a hyper growth stage, and they control the architecture. There is a high switching cost to using some other company's product, KING--The Market leader, properly with a two-times lead or better over its closest competitor. If the lead shrinks too far, the king becomes a prince, and we have a kingless market. Because they lack architectural control, and because switching costs are low, they cannot force competitors onto the defensive the way Microsoft, Intel, or Cisco can. Compaq is a king. Seagate is a king of hard drives. A lot of study has been done on these stocks by the Gorilla and Kings thread. There are the stocks that are discussed most often on the porch........and 1 or more are in most porcher's portfolio. The following Stocks are on the Gorilla and King Index QCOM CLOSE 63 9/16 AFTERHOURS 63 GMST CLOSE 54 3/8 AFTERHOURS 54 9/16 JDSU CLOSE 121 7/8 AFTERHOURS 122 1/2 SEBL CLOSE 153 9/16 AFTERHOURS 154 NTAP CLOSE 82 9/16 AFTERHOURS 82 9/16 The following Stocks are on the Gorrilla and King Wait and Watchlist The Watch & Wait Index consists of stocks that have some desirable characteristics but are not necessarily Gorillas or Kings - at least not yet. Most of them will not be, but they bear watching for that possibility. They are as follows: BRCM CLOSE 188 AFTERHOURS 188 1/8 CREE CLOSE 145 3/4 AFTERHOURS 143 1/2 ELON CLOSE 60 1/4 AFTERHOURS 60 3/4 PMSC CLOSE 183 1/16 AFTERHOURS 184 RNWK CLOSE 48 15/16 AFTERHOURS 49 1/4 WIND CLOSE 38 1/8 AFTERHOURS 39 For "Voltaire's Cover Call Strategy 101" see Post # 9490