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To: Bwe who wrote (130)	10/29/2001 6:18:43 PM
From: Stephen M. DeMoss	Respond to of 387

Anyone with thoughts on Ford for the dividend and then sell calls out of the money month to month for additional income? AFG was a good dividend paying stock for the past year. I am looking to buy some dividend paying stocks which will not go down too much <G>. Steve D.

To: Bwe who wrote (130)	10/31/2001 5:46:29 PM
From: Smooth Drive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 387

Hello Bruce, Good to hear from you. I've been out of town for a few day's. Good game last night. I know you're a Met's fan but I'd be very surprised if you weren't pulling for those DY's.<gg> The Rocket was right on. I think you're right on with MRK and PFE. Many of my longer term stocks pay a dividend. I use a hillbilly system based on the basics of Spare's Relative Dividend Yield for picking. Spare has a unique algorithm but it's not available for the average investor to have Bloomberg service of $$xxxx.xx per month to receive 30 years worth of dividend history. But -- I've found you can get just as close and have better timing using current dividend yield, many years of price history (which is available) value line and point and figure charts. If a quality company has paid a dividend for many years, the stock price RELATIVE to its own history as compared to the spx can be telling. PEP is a headscratcher -- isn't it<g>. I've found that I like to look at weekly charts more and more to get a feel of the stock. If it breaks the BLSL it's also a weekly swing down and turns the weekly swing chart to a downtrend. I wouldn't be in at after that. Thing is -- PEP has a history of climbing up walls of worry and getting a 2 for 1 split -- over and over. My WAG says it's going to laugh off the bull trap, reverse up and make you some money<G>. Take care, Eric