To: Smear_campaign who wrote (23981 ) 6/20/2001 8:43:47 AM From: Art Baeckel Respond to Smear, I can empathize and sympathize your feelings. I believe most of the longs here can also. It's a wonder that the other SI isn't getting more use or abuse. <IDTC Options Players (losers and whiners)> I really do believe that NTOP is worth much than the current 7's. Unfortunately I'm just tired of having 40k of my money in this stock. If I decide to sell when it hits 9 again I'm going to be down just over 10k. If I hold for my GTC order of 9.75 I'll still be down about 8k. I'll take my lo$$ and go elsewhere. We have all been hearing that this is the safest place to put our money for a long time. Yet it keeps getting cheaper and cheaper. I still have some shares from 33.375 . I kept averaging down as the stock kept coming down. I'm now averaged in at 12.12 @3300 shares. I kept thinking "T" paid 75 how could yah go wrong at le$$ than half. How could yah go wrong at 25, 20, 15, 10, and now it's "7". I gue$$ I was lucky enough to have the money to average down over the past couple years. But like so many other longs that we don't hear from anymore, it's my turn to move on. If this stock takes off when I leave it, then congratulations to those who waited it out. I never dreamed I would own 3300 shares of this stock! After all that's just short of a 1/4 million dollars in "T" shares. My dream for this stock has turned into a nightmare. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who could write this same story of how we "have a dream". It's just time for me to wake up and smell the coffee. The enthusiasm on this thread is lower than when all the bickering was going on. It makes me think, who the smart ones were!!!!! Smear, and the rest of yah, sometimes it just feels good to vent out your frustrations. It's easy to do here. IMO (ART)
