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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (134946)	11/18/2001 10:45:16 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

LOL -- the greatest losses in the last two years were by investors who used no brain at all.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (134946)	11/23/2001 6:58:01 AM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"The highest returns from 1990 to 1996 came from companies selling at over 100x. Did you know that? Montgomery published the study." Isn't this just a simple volatility issue? Stocks selling at over 100x are likely to be volatile, with big swings up and down. Montgomery may simply have looked at a subset of stocks selling at over 100x - that went up. I'm sure a lot of stocks selling at over 100x didn't produce huge returns. Analysts can manipulate numbers easily enough to tell any story.