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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (43712)	6/21/2001 2:51:03 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Mike: Once more... This note: >>Adjust the vertical scales so they are equal (gorillas should out-perform indices)<< e.g. so that both curves fill the page. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense. Try flicking between siliconinvestor.com and siliconinvestor.com Furthermore, you may have noticed that the time period I was suggesting was a five year view. So I find your level of interest much less interesting than you probably intended me to, because the five year view of this data is what I had hoped you would be reviewing. Now, IF you perform the exercise I suggest, THEN you will see that a broad market index has relevance even to the price action of a specific Gorilla. In general. Which was the point. You may scoff and point to this activity as "market timing". And you may intentionally or not miss the whole point of looking at the information over "long term" periods (5 years). Alternatively, you may want to try and convince everyone on the thread that they shouldn't sell SEBL to me if I offer $100 per share tomorow. Can you figure out the relevance of this? I mean give it an honest attempt? Hint? Hmmm... turn down a sure profit? How sure? How much? How about an unsure profit? Of maybe how much more or less? Where do you draw the line? Does the degree of risk characterize a decision? I wonder. Not semantics Mike, practicality. Perhaps it might sound different if I wasn't violating some sort of unarticulated but sacred concept that stocks should never be sold. As if "LT" is an accidentally imprecise abbreviation of "Forever". And if the answer isn't "never" then it begs the question "to what criteria". Surely one of which might be profit? How about Rational Expectation of Capital Loss? Nope. This is the dogma thread? I don't think so. Or at least I hope not. Perhaps let me turn my attention to a much more palatable concept. How about as an indicator of when shares should be purchased? These similar techniques can lead to indication of a serious bottom from which it's time to absolutely load up the truck. A time in which to margin all of the buying power you can muster and get in while the getting is good and establish a LTBH position. Is that a more appealing prospect?