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To: KM who wrote (62)	2/26/2001 9:26:28 PM
From: David Smith	Respond to of 467

Excellent post. You address many of the concerns that prompted me to start this thread, and this is yet more confirmation that this is a major problem in the making. Please keep posting here with your thoughts.

To: KM who wrote (62)	2/26/2001 10:13:53 PM
From: David Smith	Respond to of 467

The following is post #128 on her thread...will someone please explain to me how this is NOT an absurd violation of the S.I. term of use?? "Market Gems at $99 a month for E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G... Trying to answer the scores of e-mail, the most prevalent was a desire to maintain a Private Market Gems discussion area on Silicon Investor that could also be simultaneously located on a Market Gems Website. This might take 2 more months to implement, but it would be an exciting culmination of 3 3/4 years on SI. We do understand that to access the Market Gems posts you might have to wade through other posts but in the next few days there will be a link from my profile to the new Market Gems site. Since we are not yet charging for intraday updates the present scenario seems the best. When we begin our new format, Market Gems will have a password protected area for its comprehensive intraday updates. Charts will be downloaded as many times a day as necessary in a clear, visually attractive and user friendly format. Questions will be answered in the new forum in real-time and any watch list and/or earnings plays related topics will be focused on throughout the trading session. Intraday pop-ups will be sent to subcribers through either e-mail updates or through your pagers. The present Market Gems Trading Forum will end on January 31st and new incentives will be offered to grandfather in our Daily Watch List and Newsletters subscribers to the new $99 monthly service for only $69 a month. They will be assured a 'place' forever in the $99 a month service for the $69 price. (Quarterly subscribtions will also benefit from deep discounts). Our old 'grandfathers' from the last 2 1/2 years will continue their present rates. There will BE NO INCREASES IN CHARGES for our oldest subscribers. We are doing fine, truth be said we are doing better than other sites that have much bigger budgets, personnel, and promotions! We don't need to charge triple digits. Market Gems doesn't need to pass extraneous charges onto its subscribers. I would rather have more time to trade than charge for services and all the bells and whistles, you don't even need to become successful traders. The quality of service will be little difference from that of the trading room, just extraneous chit-chat, unneeded banter and superfluous data will be truncated. The doldrum period will be addressed with only a few intraday updates since we don't need to trade in the choppy, volatile climate when most everyone that counts is out to lunch. The Daily Watch List and Earnings Plays Newsletter will contain detailed and charted entries from 5 selections up to 9 and full explanations including relevant news items, fundamental analysis, sector strength will be included in all our daily watch lists. Throughout the earnings season which is at least 6-7 months of the year, we will maintain and update our EARNINGS PLAYS on the Market Gems Custom Earnings Calendar and call them as plays intraday as much as possible. The Earnings Plays calendar will be activated for 24 weeks of the year and during the entire year during slow months on our watch lists."

To: KM who wrote (62)	2/26/2001 11:04:22 PM
From: Dr. Stoxx	Respond to of 467

KM, Long time no contact! Hope you are well. IMO, Jenna and Pristine are a match made in heaven: both make lousy calls and charge a fortune for them!!! And agreed that SI still plays host to a handful of truly knowledgeable, gifted, selfless traders (seconds on Trader Alan, and would also add Jerry Medved, and the many who make Market Direction such a valuable thread) who are humbled by their own talents/passions, who are patient with novices (and critics!), and who have yet to succumb to the lure of commercialization. I don't necessarily count myself among them (your compliment notwithstanding). I have to admit, the temptation is there to turn my own picks into a subscription service. Many have suggested I should. But to be honest, as long as I'm making money trading, why bother? What a lot of hassle. I'm way too lazy (and busy with my dayjob) for all that nonsense. As long as I can make money trading for myself, and teach others on SI how to make money trading for themselves, then both the entrepreneurial and pedagogical spirits are satisfied. Yours as ever, TC

To: KM who wrote (62)	2/26/2001 11:45:20 PM
From: pprincesss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 467

> even this great white shark dude (the self proclaimed best trader on the planet), who get me going. KM or should I call you Kimmy Why are you having problem with SHARCK? Be honest with you I think he is the best trader of all. I made so much money on his (and Velo's) calls. He's calls are pretty understanding, no!!?? Jenna's just useless....banning me from her SI site and not answering to my question about ARXX!!!! What's that all about???? PP