To: George Schulte who wrote (4557 ) 11/8/2001 11:47:33 AM From: im a survivor Respond to George......yep, buy the dips, and buy quality......Love fdry and extr, love ntap and quite a few others....OCPI...tough one to call....they just had a rough quarter, but if and when FO comes back, the metro market should be first to recover and ocpi is metro oriented.....JDSU....heck, it may just stay in a trading range for all I know....but if I didnt sell much higher I wouldnt have sold at $7......I mean sheez.....We used to watch jdsu go up and down more then $7 a day...at $7, I think your downside was fairly limited and upside, if you are willing to be patient, could be quite nice......everybody talks about JDSU being dead money for awhile...well, had you bought the low close to $5 and sold at the recent intraday high of $10, that is 100% in 4 weeks or so...not too shabby.....I have no idea how long it takes jdsu to recover, but I do think they will as long as the economy recovers as well, so i would be a buyer of jdsu at $7 and less.......anyway, if ya cant time the market...dont bother trying....just buy quality on the dips and put the stock away and forget about it for awhile...keep your eyes and ears open for news, but dont try and guess the up and down moves.....good luck....personally, now that we are up a good bit from the lows, I hope we had our retest and this is the first leg of recovery...not saying it is...just hoping so at this point......I've seen some nice gains recently and since I am holding on, I would prefer not to give back all the gains, but if I have to and we do retest, I will at least add to my positions in my favorites........good luck and hang in there
