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To: Nemer who wrote (42589)	8/7/2002 5:56:10 PM
From: Carl Worth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

try here, good luck wading through but the info should be there somewhere...i'd try the annual reports first, they usually state that the results are adjusted for such and such a split during the current or past year if such a split took place edgar-online.com carl

To: Nemer who wrote (42589)	8/7/2002 8:44:37 PM
From: DanZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Hey, Nemer. According to investor.cnet.com WLA split 3:1 in May 1998. I don't know how accurate it is. Regarding the TA vs. FA discussion, it's probably best to leave it alone. I'm with Ron that it is probably better to use FA to decide what to buy and TA to decide when to buy. The problem is what to do after you've already bought. The amount of risk that I'm willing to take on any one trade varies with my expected holding period. If I buy a stock for a short term trade, I am usually not willing to give it as much room to navigate as if I am willing to hold a year or more. I'm only human and violate my own rules at times. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. I have been buying stocks recently with an expected holding period of longer than a few months, so I am willing to give them more room to work. The semiconductors are a perfect example. The group is so volatile that you are just giving money away if you keep a 7% stop in. They move that much in five minutes sometimes, and the chance that you will pick the absolute bottom in any of those stocks is nill. However, I think if you are willing to hold through the next up cycle (whenever that is), you'll make at least 100% on your money, and perhaps much more. I use a mixture of FA and TA, but the percentage weight that I put on each varies. Right now I am putting more emphasis on FA because I think that the market is at an extreme in terms of emotion. The real question is whether the technicals lead the fundamentals, or the fundamentals lead the technicals. I don't think that there is a clear answer to that. Sometimes the fundamentals lead and sometimes the technicals lead.