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Strategies & Market Trends : Three Amigos Stock Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (23068)	12/23/2000 1:59:46 PM
From: Sergio H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29382

Congratulations on your Datek gift. I had a similar experience a few years ago with Waterhouse. My balance was credited $25k for the sale of some convertible mortgage instrument that I had no knowledge of. I contacted Waterhouse and reported the error. They assured me that there was no error and that the money was indeed mine. I consulted with a few friends in the industry and they advised me to close the acct. and RUN!!! LOL In my heart I knew the money was not mine and that sooner or later Waterhouse would discover the error and contact me. It took them a few months, unbelievable, but they did figure it out and wanted their money back. I had not closed the acct., but I sure wasn't going to let the money just sit there. I was fully invested and told them tough &$%@! when they wanted their money back. I didn't mind arguing with them since I had called and reported their error and I had been told not to worry about it. Sorry Charly!!! Well...I didn't get to keep the money, and I didn't expect to, but Waterhouse did give me some consideration for my incovenience. True story. CHK and OEI (which I own) mentioned in natural gas feature in today's Barrons. Story is based on the divergence between the price of NG and the price of (sill undervalued) NG stocks. I was reading in another article about manufacturing companies in the West discontinuing their operations in order to sell their ration of previously contracted electricity...at a 400% profit. In other words, these mfg. co's are going to be more profitable by doing nothing!!! Here's the Barron's list mentioned above: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2000 Who Has The Cheapest Natural Gas? Symbol Company Recent Stock Price Enterprise Value (mils) Proved Reserves (Bcf) ** Percent Gas Enterprise Value/Mcf # NMC Numac Energy $ 3.61 $ 357 468 44% $0.76 PXD Pioneer Natural Resources 15.82 2,862 3,633 52 0.79 EVG Evergreen Resources 32.88 658 822 100 0.80 BELW Bellwether Exploration 6.06 201 231 56 0.87 BKP.T Berkley Petroleum 5.75 609 637 69 0.96 EEX EEX 4.38 450 468 78 0.96 COG Cabot Oil & Gas 26.63 949 979 95 0.97 HSE HS Resources 39.00 1,132 1,112 78 1.02 EGN Energen 30.82 1,055 1,020 73 1.03 CPE Callon Petroleum 14.56 270 254 44 1.06 ABP Abraxas Petroleum 4.56 297 266 71 1.12 OEI Ocean Energy 15.06 2,862 2,490 56 1.15 BOG Belco Oil & Gas 8.94 738 641 50 1.15 POG Patina Oil & Gas 20.69 538 466 78 1.15 NBL Noble Affiliates 40.38 2,307 1,995 63 1.16 SWN Southwestern Energy 7.69 456 355 87 1.29 PPP Pogo Producing 26.00 1,153 847 44 1.36 ECA Encal Energy 6.31 870 622 71 1.40 XTO Cross Timbers Oil 25.25 2,862 2,023 76 1.42 BRR Barrett Resources 48.00 1,620 1,134 95 1.43 CHK Chesapeake Energy 7.31 1,837 1,206 88 1.52 CRK Comstock Resources 11.50 571 375 69 1.52 LD Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas 39.13 2,343 1,464 88 1.60 TMR Meridian Resource 6.75 593 365 55 1.63 AXL.T Anderson Exploration 21.19 3,440 2,095 67 1.64 CID Chieftain International 24.50 404 240 63 1.68 MARY St. Mary Land & Exploration 24.75 579 321 65 1.80 SFY Swift Energy 33.31 826 455 73 1.82 THX Houston Exploration 29.63 1,002 541 97 1.85 TMBR Tom Brown 30.25 1,019 524 85 1.94 Market value plus net debt. *Billion cubic feet #Thousand cubic feet Canadian prices in U.S. dollars. Source: John S. Herold & Co. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------