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To: Lost to Voodoo who wrote (7483)	11/19/2000 6:58:35 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 10876

It looks like there was some lively discussion here last night. I'm mining the threads and my newsletters now, so will paste a few things, then respond to posts. Bad news for ORCL? Oracle VP resigns - Gary Bloom leaving to become president and CEO of Veritas www0.mercurycenter.com From the Sunday Option Investor Newsletter, regarding the stance taken by commercial traders: CBOT Commitment Of Traders Report: Friday 11/17 Weekly COT report discloses positions held by small specs and commercial traders of index futures contracts on the Chicago Board Of Trade. Small specs are the general trading public with commercials being financial institutions. Commercials are historically on the correct side of future trend changes while small specs are not. Extreme divergence between each signals a possible market turn in favor of the commercial trader’s direction. What COT Data Tells Us: Commercial positions in S&P 500 remain at their ten-year extreme short levels and have increased their net- short DOW positions.