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To: American Spirit who wrote (50886)	4/20/2001 2:13:23 PM
From: maverick61	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57584

OK AS, one more response while we are still in the mid-day doldrum period - do you really listen to yourself - here is what you just said: "I bought and plugged ANF and BEBE 15 months ago and no one listened. They went down and down. Finally six months later they tripled. I was right in my reasoning but the market was against me at the time. No one even understood why. Those picks were just scary to people until others bought first. " You were RIGHT? YOU FREAKING LOST MONEY FOR THE FIRST 6 months holding them - and OVERALL YOU MAY HAVE BRROKEN EVEN. here are the charts: bigcharts.com BEBE is no higher now that it was 15 months ago, in January 2000. ANF is barely higher in the same time frame: bigcharts.com How in the world do you measure success??????????? just because you make a call, and it GOES DOWN for 6 MONTHS - then comes back in the next 9 months - doesn't mean you were right !!!!! Amazing. Utterly amazing. You say - "Those picks were just scary to people until others bought first" Sure - you needed people to sell them to a third of their value for 6 months - before they could bounce back to even in another 9 months - and you count that as being right. But they were just scared to buy and didn't see what you did. UNREAL i thought your admission about not using fundamentals, etc to pick stocks was bad. If this is the way you measure if you make a good or bad call its just utterly absurd !!!!!!!!! Then you say "The dangeros ones have been the shorts bashing everything in sight like the whole world's about to end. I've been the voice of reason lately" Voice of reason? Hey the shorts are entitled to their opinion just as you are to yours. I guess your voice of reason includes telling the shorts they are unamerican, ruining our economy, oh please stop your shorting . . . . ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! next, you mention politics - If you think my responses to you are such because I disgaree with you on political issues - you've been smoking too much of that wacky tobaccy Finally, you say "This is very minor profit-taking today and people are buying into it, just like I'd predicted" - Ummm - who really didn't predict consolidation, pullback and profit taking. At least you were with the crowd there - but don't strain yourself patting your own back from that amazing call