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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (145327)	8/13/2002 10:47:11 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Bill, where you one of thousands who attended the fourth annual online trading expo in Anaheim over the weekend? >>Ninfa Fabila, a 52-year-old nurse from Los Angeles, watched her 401(k) retirement savings account lose half its value before she pulled the money out of the stock market at the end of last year. Now, she's looking for a way to boost her retirement nest egg without relying on buy-and-hold investing in shares. Instead, Fabila wants to learn how to trade the market, she said. "Right now I would not risk my money buying and holding stocks," Fabila said. "It's the traders who are doing well. The sellers are making a lot of profit by 'shorting' stocks," she said, referring to a strategy that profits when stocks go down. Fabila was one of several thousand attendees at the fourth annual International Online Trading Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend, where vendors touted systems and strategies aimed largely at people who are interested in making short-term profits in the market--and in avoiding the heavy losses that can be an inevitable element of buy-and-hold investing.<< latimes.com