To: Jerry Olson who wrote (37455 ) 3/23/2001 7:22:33 AM From: IQBAL LATIF Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167 <<the SOX was and is and always will be for me the KEY to the markets...so let's see Ike where we bounce to...>> To be honest with all my experience I have not been able to be that nimble, I would rather go long amidst carnage and hopefully expect my fundamental analysis to hold. I thought that SOX is making a low 'b to b' but if you care ot look at 'order' they are three times higher, honestly I know SOX cycle a little bit have traded them for long, when we hit that 480 and down in 97, the level of orders were three times lower than today, so were shipments, to expect that SOX to go to dogs and neglecting the $2.35 billion of shipments is little steep. Now that 2.35 was the high of 98 cycle and not it is the low of the present cycle, higher lows of cycle you can see it in b to b of SOX so clearly.. it was this that I was confident, this is what charts does not tell you.. May be 'it is fashion' but the real character of my thread is that i held on to my positions made decent profit as we went down, explained the supports where I get long like 1082-1092 area, and made my longs clear and wide. For me I make money and I lose some, but I make it with lot of pain and lot of effort, I feel so inadequate when I read the 'general posts' that you and many make here, it seems that you guys have a magic in that 'da room' and it is so good to be there. I think that if that room is like this 'Idea thread' where we all can come free and exchange our thoughts without any cost, I am ready to close this thing down and move at your 'da room'. I want to make some serious money. Please tell me, we all are so depressed by this ever present thought of being wrong all the time, you guys know it better, for us effortless, painless money making is far better than pursuit of this thread, that has probably seen the best and may need folding up now. Money making is easier with you guys and here their is nothing but 'wrong calls, bulish mentality in a bearish market and painful analysis with a spin',( although I know from my PM that my analysis is one of the most sought after by the bears) let's role this thing up and move to your room, if you can be kind enough accept, I will also request everyone to please proceed to the 'da room' where we are always on the 'right side of the market'..