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Strategies & Market Trends : Dave Gore's Trades That Make Sense -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Prophet who wrote (2995)	2/16/2002 8:23:04 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16631

Prophet, no no no & STOP! Not good to let "That is scary!" to direct your actions in the wrong direction, as in to "Make hay when the sky falls." :o) "... on JPM Leap put options. They might expire worthless." I will assume is like a short, as in hoping for Doom & Gloom, and eventhought included in Dave Gore's approach is to protect oneself from losing investmints, its more of a take the safe path, not one that has dangerous possibilities, as in ones that allow you the most control to exit a bad situation, and if this scary article has any ability to se the light of day, then best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best and position oneself to act in either direction. I'm babbling again, so let the current facts speak for themselves. Dave didn't give up that post for contest ranking for friday, but its a safe bet that i'm still in first place and over half are under initial investments. If these picks represent what can be labeled the best picks for a short term hold of 4 months, and the average movement of all after 1-2 months is neutral, then that may speak that a lost has happened for the general population in the USA holding those mutual funds. Guess the question to ask is "what now & near term" for the markets based on the general trend from mainstream news, as using the Zeev thoughts, its not a bright light at tunnel, but maybe scary like that article with a train heading towards us. Since i don't follow other threads for trading or market insight, and this thread seems to be doing good as in not bad or neutral, then best we following Dave Gore's lead. Dave did mention that bad news sneaking up on us is bad, like the Enron, but Dave also correctly stated that its counter productive to assume bad news to arrive without facts up front, and even then bad news has momentum causing folks to need Tums. Based on my gold as a safe haven in times of uncertain, it was very understandable that my initial post on this thread #40 Dec 20 was not filtered into the thread's focus until #175 Dec 29 when i actually "forced" Dave to address it, which he did on #180. But that was then, and this is now, and now i'm first in contest with both my picks good ones in the gold arena, with one up a big 100% and the other up 55% for an average 77% increase. Hopefully this post of mine here is taken tongue in cheek and with a grain of salt since events can turn on a dime as we all know, so now let me "roast" soft-something and ask what area his picks now worth in the 2 thousand dollars from that 10 :o) Since i'm not in the markets except for small fun money, its kind of not correct for me to give advice like "Get into all cash." d:oug

To: Prophet who wrote (2995)	2/19/2002 9:38:00 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16631

Prophet, o.k. for you to be the Scary Stuff go-to person? From: Mrs. Peel Can you provide any written confirmation of that... "... confirmed today with Fidelity that they have cancelled insurance on money market funds, they used to carry insurance above the 100k FDIC limit for their own account." From: michael finsterwald you think they are going to put out a press release? ... Get your name on some T-Bills and gold imo. From: michael finsterwald Here's a reference for you - in the article "Insurance and Nakedness" "Many money market funds are dropping default insurance because premiums have soared. USAA, Fidelity Investments, and Putnam Investments, have all dropped insurance. Vanguard and others are considering doing so. Those funds just got a lot riskier. ...." flash.net I confirmed today with my broker at Fidelity...

To: Prophet who wrote (2995)	2/21/2002 7:00:02 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 16631

Prophet, This article is too scary for this thread, but there may be folks here looking for a method to never sleep so that they can trade markets 24/7 world wide. Yes, so anyone needing your eyes to be popped opened wide and never be able to close them in the fear of frighting thoughts, then follows is where it was posted. First my Boston Safe Harbor next to it's Raspberries Bogs: Anyone reading this article with misinterpretation for it to be instruction manual on how to jump out of windows of tall buildings, well please first contact Mr. ChuckaMarchMallows so that this giant in size man of mind & matter can catch you :o) Message 17091697 d:o)ug