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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David who wrote (7268)	7/24/2000 11:11:25 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 10293

I think Bill had a mixed record. I am not going to spend the time combing through the thread to see who called longs and shorts at which price. I was just noting that none of the plays he mentioned recorded huge gains, as some of their advocates had argued they would. Now, of course, they will crow about any gains at all. Frankly, the whole subject really doesn't interest me enough to post about it beyond this. Bill's gone, I don't play those stocks myself, so it's all moot. Good luck. Any other comments should be directed to Bill himself.

To: David who wrote (7268)	7/25/2000 2:35:46 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10293

*re: "please let me know if I'm wrong, but I was under the clear impression that Wexler introduced stocks with a Sell/Short recommendation on the assumption that they were about to drop in price..."* That sarcasm aside, most of his short picks do so. All investors have mixed records—at least the honest ones do. ZITL and ZONA (short), and AAPL (long) are a few calls which have been missed among the current record. There are more, too. And Wex was one of the few to openly admit misjudgments as they occured (ATHM, as an example). It's interesting that owners of "pet" stocks get so hot under the collar when someone doesn't like their 'pick du jour'. Unbeknownst to some, it's not like insulting somebody's wife—it's just a lil' ole paper certificate. The bigger adults move on and go forward. Perhaps that's why Wex isn't still here with the pet stock owners, who remain to toss around insults. (…just an observation. I'm not a pet stock owner—stocks are paper. Stocks are traded. That's why we have a market. The only pet I have is&#151a cat.)