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To: Math Junkie who wrote (61751)	3/8/2002 11:21:23 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 70976

You miss the point. Traders report that they ACT differently when they have "real money" at stake vs paper trades. If the money is "chump change" to the trader, then they might take more risk and get a different return than if they are using 1% of their net worth on each buy or sell as many day traders do. The "study" you suggest has more meaning when scaled to "% of net worth". AD is good and it is interesting to see how he does, just what if we all used the AMAT thread for our trades? Maybe that is fine. If so, then we should move the stuff we ALL agree is important to the no politics and other "voted off the island" stuff so those that don't have tons of free time can read the good stuff with less effort?

To: Math Junkie who wrote (61751)	3/8/2002 11:22:48 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Richard, AD is short 5000 shares at 51.25 i believe. At his worse today he was down 3 full points(unless he covered early). During the depression some folks jumped from buildings down here on WallSt. I dont know what shorts do when they take a hit but AD is now MIA. <g> By the way, i for one believe that he is for real. If he were a phony he would post more losses in order to be believable. The last time AD had a position go against him this way, he held it for awhile and eventually got out at a profit. It should be interesting to see what happens today. Could this be an up 5 day for amat like in the good old days. Mike