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To: tejek who wrote (123965)	9/15/2000 12:37:02 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 1580148

The funds and other large institutions have a problem; lots of shares to move. That distorts the trading because they tend to make decisions en-mass that moves the stock out of proportion to events. The intelligent way to play that is to not try to fight the tape. If the institutional investors are selling then get out of the way and wait until they are exhausted or the stock reaches a major support level. Once the volume to the downside drops start looking for the bottom. Those things often coincide as they appear to have done now in AMD. This doesn't mean that more institutional selling wont hit the stock again but often when it reaches this point any remaining large portfolios scheduled to be disposed of will wait for a better price.