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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (143145)	9/8/2001 11:15:17 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"But I don't think Jim is going to quit his nay-saying until the forum gives him the satisfaction of admitting he's right. And of course no one has reason to do that." I hope I'm wrong. You can play mind games but It doesn't matter the markets are going to go where they are going to go. Jim

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (143145)	9/9/2001 1:28:06 PM
From: COMMON_SENSE	Respond to of 186894

I wonder if the majority of investing is large funds who can move zillions of dollars each day by the hour in and out of stocks or the hoard of 6 billion humans (although most don't buy stocks) on this planet - many individually investing and having the same effect a drops of water melting on mountain slopes to form giant rivers rushing down to oceans. I honestly have never understood which is more prevalent - the large investment pools or the hoards of individual investors. If this were clear, a person could theorize what would happen in the stock market because the investing psychology is different for each group. Investment pools like to make studied decisions. They go in and they can quit a stock position in a flash. People, investing individually however, are more likely to place their bets and hold the stock for a long time. Almost all the people I know are in this "hold them" category as private investors. They firmly believe that - given enough time - the stocks will come back. The question then is when will they dump a position. I think the answer is not easy because greed and fear a the two dominant market motivators. So which way is it?