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To: TimF who wrote (124149)	9/18/2000 6:02:48 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 1580266

Almost all the gains in the tech stocks are made from October 15 thru April or May. Of course general timing rules are often broken but the point is that net returns from investing in tech sectors during this period tends to be lousy, even during bullish overal market trend. In general, when tech stocks go out of favor during the summer months during generally favorable product/market cycle periods it is a good time to buy. While it's nearly impossible to guess exact bottoms, it is best to calm your emotions and step up to the plate an buy - even if you bought earlier at much higher prices. Sometime during the first quarter of the year is is usually a good time to exit stock positions or sell calls against your positions to take some profits.