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Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (167701)	10/31/2001 11:17:10 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

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To: John Koligman who wrote (167701)	11/1/2001 5:02:09 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

<<I've been trading in and out daily, so I caught about half of it. Missed out on the gap up openings that occurred a couple of days prior and after Dell stated that they would make the quarter. My policy has been to try and get flat before the close... It works quite well, gives you daily profits and keeps you out of harms way when the warnings come after hours. On the other hand, much more work than 'buy and hold' as you have to sit there and watch. Only way to go over the past few years though.>> The old buy-and -hold concept seems to have been displaced in recent years. Brka is even-steven for three year period. Consider these solid US companies that managed to underperform the Dow over nine years, providing jobs, power and incentives for management and the same for all their many supplying companies and dealers and thus very important to the economy. Not making money for common shareholders, but usually accumulating more debt as the years go by. Pity the poor taxpayer, and common shareholder. siliconinvestor.com I am not much concerned with the economy as much discussed today, its the flow of money throughout the economy thats most significant and locally its better than ever. Excluding brokers, who will always bitch anyway. I have a standing offer of $10/hr for common labor and nobody shows up. $150/day sometimes works. Since the Feds own the printing presses and control the rates, they should be able to keep the money moving, and we will pay the price with future inflation For the big tech stocks like csco,msft,emc, dell,orcl, cpq, intc, The funds and banks have gained control thru stock ownership(2.5 bil Msft shrs, close to 1bil cpq, 1 bil dell etc.) And the new game in town called churning, or volatiliy, with lots of (paid) analysts helping things along and trying to keep prices in the channels.. This greatly assisted by options plays. Are those who wrote over 100,000 CC's or Puts on several different strikes on INTC going to loss money? I doubt it. They have a plan to come out ahead ! (at my expence, so I try not to mess with Intc) To keep our economy and people working with the government promising security, all the basic infrastructure requires investors and bondholders- in gas, oil, utilities, banks, autos, aircraft, transport etc. With luck, investors will get some dividends. But the system could not tolerate 60% of investors dollars going into techs with everyone becoming a millionaire and thus independent from government control. Msft is an example of what can be done and it will be interesting to see whether they are permitted to roll again. Do you think it will cross 70?. There are only about 4 companies I trust to be good LTBH performers (say 50%/yr or more) but they also have their bad weeks so I even trade those. I am still a sucker for "news" (just bgt and sold some NOC and LMT) with little gain. I prefer a stock thats not in the news every day. Thats causing real pain to LT Dell holders. If the Dell model fails, we may as well give up on investing in US companies, it would mean purchasers are so miss-informed they would pay more to buy lesser quality computers and associated gear from companies that are losng so much money they may be out of business in a short time. Individuals can tolerate that, but not corporations. Sig .