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To: H James Morris who wrote (132116)	9/29/2001 7:16:36 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>Look I am still a genious for selling Ariba at 7 or 9 LOL. I can't even recall. I saved another 90%. Those are funny numbers though;-) Glenn, Ariba is down -96.5% this year alone, closing at 1.86. What are those funny numbers you refer to? My implication is percentages are deceiving as far as the loss or if there was a gain as far as the gain would be. The $113 to let's say $9 at which I sold was one very large loss. If I had not sold and held the shares longer, I would have lost 90% more of the remaining money which was only 10% of the first investment. So let's pick a number of 500 shares at $113 which would be an initial investment of $56,500. Selling the 500 shares at $9.00 would bring in $4,500 so one has a loss of $51,000. Selling the 500 shares at let's $2.00 would bring in $1,000 or a loss of $3500 more with a 90% drop from $9 to $2. One did not save a heck of a lot getting out at $9. That was aleady way too much of a loss prior to cutting losses. Now one can buy 500 shares for about $1,000. A 100% increase gives one a whopping profit of $1,000. One would need a very large percentage gain to get from $2 back to $113. That was all I meant.