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To: George Schulte who wrote (30798)	2/9/2001 10:39:41 AM
From: im a survivor	Respond to of 65232

Sorry about your margin call.....I tell ya...in this market it takes a steel set of....well, I don;t want to disrespect the lady's so I'll leave it at that......to go heavy on margin in this market. I do use margin...right now my margin level is about 25% and even that causes me to have some concern, because two weeks ago, without alot of differance in $'s in or out, the % was much lower. The drop alone in naz has brought the margin % up from 10% to 25%......so... will write some cc's or sell something if we go up some on naz. Ther's alot I'd love to add and if I knew for sure we were going up, I wouldn't hestitate to buy, but the last thing I want is heavy margin and a forced sale of stock. My hope is to stay out of margin trouble and ride some of this stuff back to profitable levels........I did add a little more GEMS and will hopefully add more. Thinking of selling a little of this and a little of that and buying more of my favorites.....I like jdsu down here....like ntap also, but will still wait on it...if I miss it, which I probaly will, then so be it....I like sunw in the lower $20's...lots I like, but I will be careful to keep a close eye on my margin %........if we are at or near a bottom, I am fine...if we drop below 2000 and jdsu, rmbs, atml, ssti and etc....continue to plumett then I may be in trouble, but still have a little buffer and i hope I don't need it........good luck