To: Venkie who wrote (6272 ) 2/16/2002 11:14:20 AM From: im a survivor Respond to of 13815 <<extr...good move >> Hope so...market looks real ugly, but figured extr was a good buy for the long haul at under $10...bought some at $13, didnt take profits when it went up <ggg>.....told myself I would add more under $10, so I did....if it hits $5, I'll add again......not happy with how beas and rfmd are acting...especially since both have had good news, big contract wins, new products, and generally very positive remarks about both,,,yet they are both trending lower.....stor looks like it needs to be taken out back and shot...I should have taken my profits that day it spiked above $6.......I still like the 04 $10 leaps on ATML...very solid company ( just got a slew of upgrades ).......assuming we get a recovery sometime by 2004, those leaps should produce a nice % return.....if we flounder for 2 more years and do nothing....at least they are cheap........I added a bunch of them under, or about $1.75 to the ones I had at about $2.75....will wait patiently for her to make a move back to the $15 area ( hopefully!!)......well, if we are going to retest 1600, it isnt that far away.....jdsu and sunw may be buys at $5....still think NXTL is positined nicely....one of 3 in the sector to come in above consensus........with excellent forward guidance.....plenty of $$ cushion as they roll out the worldwide direct connect service with qcom and MOT.....I will be adding to nxtl as it drops as I believe they will be hugely sucessful on their own, or they will be snatched up.....too loyal a customer base that is growing faster then projections.....awesome technology.......nxtl is a gamble as is any stock in this crazy market, but I think it will be much higher down the road, IF we ever recover from this mess of a market......if not, will, then I guess it will be filing chapter 11 along with many, many others that cant weather a 5 or 10 year bad storm......