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Pastimes : MELT-UP or MELT-DOWN: Cast your Vote -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.T. who wrote (215)	4/28/2002 4:38:47 PM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361

... you are truly amazing J.T. ... 62 plus votes and 231 posts to a new thread on a Saturday and Sunday ... ... wait just a single minute now ... I just counted ... 91 of the 231 posts are from somebody named J.T. ... that's almost 40 per cent ... ... I've heard of stuffing the ballot box before, but ... ... you were born and raised in Chicago, not cheese-land ... right ... Ken

To: J.T. who wrote (215)	4/28/2002 9:42:36 PM
From: J.T.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 361

Bull/Bear SI Sentiment Poll Preliminary Final Results 84 Votes Cast- 41 Bears (Lower) 39 Bulls (Higher) 02 Undecided/Don't know 02 No change y Undecided/Don't Know Bull Camp: Bear Camp: z No Change: 01)J.T. 01)Steve Lee 1)yMechanicalMethod 02)Rich1 02)Rolando Toledo 2)z/exp 03)Annette 03)Bandit19 3)y/nsumer81 04)da_cheif 04)deathandtaxes 4)z/Sir Auric Goldfinger 05)DlphcOracl 05)CRUSADERFORTRUTH 06)sandiegobear 06)bid_buster 07)robert b. furman 07)Joan Graffius 08)Eugene Kearney 08)Andrew 09)mjfdl 09)Druss 10)DayTraderKidd 10)Peach 11)captaintime 11)At_The_Ask 12)Baton 12)James Reiher 13)IQBAL LATIF 13)Ge Ying Fang 14)William H. Hueb 14)tippet 15)drugstorecowboy 15)LLCF 16)Carolyn 16)Tabler 17)lifeisgood 17)itsallover 18)Amots Dramen 18)Les Horowitz 19)Tom Pulley 19)High-Tech East 20)hexamon 20)Softechie 21)Julius Wong 21)KyrosL 22)arno 22)Dipy 23)Timetobuy 23)davidd 24)Bicycle 24)Gut Trader 25)Dave Gore 25)David W. Taylor 26)Surfratiam 26)SemiBear 27)John 27)Dennis Murphy** 28)marginmike 28)claptonsguitar 29)Eddy Blinker 29)Lee lichterman III 30)Options Jerry 30)oldirtybastard 31)Dan Zimmermann 31)scotty 32)Peace 32)mishedlo 33)byhiselo 33)Monty Friesen 34)High Country Trader 34)Susan G 35)Uncle Frank 35)AllansAlias 36)Ann Corrigan 36)NewVision 37)samim anbarcioglu 37)KeepItSimple 38)Jon Koplik 38)Petrol 39)Jan Crawley 39)Jorj X. Mckie 40) 40)B.REVERE 41) 41)michael finsterwald Please Note Bull #28 and #29 marginmike and Eddy Blinker change their votes from Bearish to Bullish. MM misunderstood the poll to be 2002, but changed his vote when he realized the poll was for 18 months out closing October 31, 2003. Eddy Blinker changed his vote because of my misunderstanding his views. Eddy believes we are going to Dow 6,000 first this year (and now 5,000 after a friendly wager he couldn't refuse) and then back higher toward 12,000. He believes we will be higher than current levels at close October 31, 2002. The new Bear votes uncounted until now move into the two vacated Bear slots #8 vacated by marginmike and now filled by Andrew and #27 Bear slot vacated by Eddy Blinker and now filled by Dennis Murphy. **************************** A few points to consider. It is obvious based on this random raw poll, that sentiment is split evenly down the middle. And this two year Bear Market has washed out more optimism and frothiness than Bears care to admit. On the flipside, Bulls have no reason to crow because there is 'complacent' pessimism in the sentiment data herein after a two year road to hades. Bears can contend the road to hell (for the market) is paved with good (or is that naive) intentions. And further, that the Bulls are blind to see what meltdown has already transpired and have not changed their views. The hurt is dead ahead. What gets my perspective, however, is that this is an 18 month poll. Not a 6 month poll. And this market has ingrained a much more Bearish LONG-TERM sentiment outlook than Bears would like to admit. If this were a 6 month poll, or for that matter a weekly poll, I would be a little more concerned with the sentiment results, as it should be more skewed Bearish. As it is, pessimism permeates the long term market perspective and this must be considered a small comfort for this biased Bullish sentiment observer. I welcome all views as mine is biased to the Bulls. Best Regards, J.T.