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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (4649)	7/6/2000 11:20:53 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5232

Thanks for the detailed response. Gratifying. I tend to be more of a buy-and-hold investor, though I do also set targets for my stocks and when they approach the targets reevaluate them and sell if I think they're fully priced. Sometimes it works (sold a bunch of my ADPT in the 50s and 60s, before it dropped into the high teens), sometimes not (sold half my ADCT at 67, after which it promptly went up into 80s), but my basic philosophy is that nobody ever went broke taking a profit. I use the NAIC tools, mostly the SSG and PERT, as my basic evaluative tools. They miss some of they high flyers, but keep me out of really bad trouble. Will look forward to further discussion of CA when I've had a chance to do more research. Today, at least, looks like it's stabilizing in the high 20s, so there may be time. Copper, eh? Haven't thought about copper for years. With the switch to fiber optic cable, and pennies being possibly phased out, where's the main copper market? Come to think of it, you can't run electricity on fiber optic, and there's going to be a lot of electrical infrastructure needing replacement in the next 10-20 years, but do they use copper for that cable now, or something more exotic? Where else is copper looking for growing demand?