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To: LLCF who wrote (20700)	7/3/2002 12:28:42 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

LLCF, Has it crossed your mind that ACF can only exist if he/she is acting as a paid shill for the sell side? Perhaps you heard the news? NY AG Eliot Spitzer has unearthed some really unsavory emails that Henry Blodgett sent to his co-conspirators at M/L. ACF simply hasn't been indicted yet.

To: LLCF who wrote (20700)	7/3/2002 10:30:49 AM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74559

That was almost civil, DAK. Almost. What happened to your loud public declaration that I was now and for ever more on "Ignore?" Well, an "almost" civil question deserves an "almost" civil answer. First, this is not a debate, so there's no "reasoning" - as you put it - going on here. Just a display of (very) thinly veiled male egos. It's not pretty. Second, you're apparently an accomplished trader - or have been for the last 18 months or so, anyway - though why you feel it necessary to exhibit your portfolio is a mystery to me (actually, DAK, it's not a mystery, it's just your mid-life insecurities showing). Very few people can trade successfully for an extended period of time. You may recall that Jesse Livermore, hero of countless extinct day-traders, committed suicide. Third, my investment approach is entirely market independent. Only fools believe they can consistently predict market direction. The key is to buy value (see Ben Graham, Warren Buffett) and invest long term. Finally, 2002 is very different from 1929 or 1970, both times of seriously declining economic fundamentals. Right now we have solid growth, high productivity and low inflation. The stock market will not ignore these fundamentals indefinitely.