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To: Teresa Lo who wrote (6187)	3/17/2001 12:30:37 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

You are totally right, and it shocks me how resistant I've been to the simple techniques you taught last December in your online class. Or rather, I should say, how erratic I've been. And in retrospect how much capital it would've preserved had I known this stuff a year ago: Mike's point about getting stopped out at NAZ 4400 & avoid all this pain... The lessons are slowly sinking in, though. For instance, watching rmbs drop like a stone out of the apex of its triangle, in the old days I'd have been tempted to buy it at 16 "Geez its so cheap and still will make a profit as a company even if this decision goes against it"...But "cheap" is a subjective decision based on previous trading range, and I'm now aware of that. Moreover, I finally have the discipline to wait and watch, until something bases and recovers and retests and then you can enter if you wish Which means I'm not doing much at all! Since I haven't learned to short yet, what is there to do lately? :-)

To: Teresa Lo who wrote (6187)	3/17/2001 6:36:04 PM
From: parker_meridian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

On Monday, we go live with TopTick SquawkBox Trader's Club, a real time voice/text chat hosted by me and Mike Bruns, along with the regulars from ispec - all by donation. Excuse me for being cynical...but how is this any different then the present pay for chatroom setup? I would understand a "donation" to be optional completely, let alone the amount. But... You entered an amount that was too low. The smallest payment possible is $25.00 It seems all this fanfair about going to "donations" only is little more then attempting to reprice a service that was charging above what the market will bare(24 subscribers only @$50), while at the same time trying to get around the current uprising against gurus soliciting for clients on SI, and trying to take advantage of the recent troubles here of a competitor. Interesting, even a $25 week "donation" is a higher amount then the suspended guru is charging, with what seems to be by the program schedule a much more limited effort. The donation also must be made in advance...before seeing if the service is worth contribution too. Limited, gentle soliciting is one thing, but this attempt to spin "we only want to help" while people associated with the servcie fall over themselves congratulating each other is a bit much. Clearly the attempt is to generate subscriber revenue, even only $24*50 a week is $60,000 US a year...to join a chat hosted on a free Yahoo club...not a bad gig IMHO. Taking shots at other gurus(who seem to at least offer a free look) while promoting this disengenious "donation" scheme with the higher then thou attitude often seen here "We don't need subscriptions because we make our money trading" makes you look as bad as the rest.