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To: Ronald P. Margraf Sr. who wrote (11712)	3/19/2001 4:27:00 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12039

Well the other side to the BB's is that they are inherently risker due to lax reporting; due to lax reporting requirements the criminal and near criminal element tend to be attracted; and they are prime vehicles for the distribution of cheap and often worthless paper to the public. I am from Vancouver BC, home of some of the more illustrious deals and promoters. Nuff said. Now you do continually mention a need to do due diligence, and I commend you for that - if you are able to obtain the information you need to reduce risk appropriately, all the power to you. But that's not a technical analysis technique and there's more than one would-be and actual trader passing through here that do not perform fundamental analysis. In that context, perhaps you can finally understand why I could never recommend to such a person that they trade BB stocks based on technical analysis? So your response is a short ticket from Philly to Camden.;-(((((((( Sorry, I don't get it. Unless its a poke at shorting? I like the short side. Stocks / price tends to drop at higher speed than they go up. If the primary trend - going back months and months - is down, why would you want to fight it? Standing aside is always an option and while the returns may not seem earth shattering from tbills and such, they are at least positive returns! Many tech investors this past year would give their eye teeth for a 4 percent return, instead of the losses that many folks have incurred.