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Biotech / Medical : VD's Model Portfolio & Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cytokine1 who wrote (9355)	8/21/2002 11:59:55 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Perhaps a blind-chicken point must be recognized in #9354. The use of margin is often combined with a stop-loss system to limit the risks of the kind of market we have been seeing. The old saw of sell-when-it's-down-8% would be incredibly useless in biotech, which is all over the board even in the best of times. But aggressive management of the margin, or even just holding what one has the capital for, is certainly worth considering. No suggestions here, other than that it's food for discussion, and the thread is not as talkative as it was when it was younger...

To: Cytokine1 who wrote (9355)	8/24/2002 12:16:36 PM
From: Cytokine1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

VD's MODEL PORTFOLIO 8/23/02 Change -$8312 DOWN -5.02% Started 4/9/97, $100K . INDEX ^NBI DOWN -3.70% YTD EQUITY CHANGE -92.4% # CURR . DAILY CURR COST TOTAL %GAIN/ % OF SYMB SHRS PRICE CHG %CHG VALUE SHR COST LOSS TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . CELG 3000 20.30 -0.75 -3.6% 60900 16.45 49357 23.4% 38.7% SEPR 4000 6.24 -0.47 -7.0% 24960 54.43 217706 -88.5% 15.9% OSIP 2000 16.32 -1.18 -6.7% 32640 15.05 30100 8.4% 20.7% AFFX 2000 19.45 -0.91 -4.5% 38902 24.53 49067 -20.7% 24.7% STOCK ______ ______ ______ ______ 157402 346230 -54.5% 100.0% SHORT SALE CREDIT ______ ______ 0 MARGIN MTCE. EQUITY 46.7% MIN 30% (83970) BUYING POWER $ ______ -10537 EQUITY (NAV) ______ ______ ______ 73432 100000 -26.6% ^NBI INDEX 526 -20.18 -3.70% 302.42 73.8% NOTES: OPEN orders subject to available buying power--- 8/20/02 -30100 BUY 2000 OSIP @ 15.05 8/20/02 18900 SELL 1000 AFFX @ 18.90 8/20/02 18910 SELL 1000 CELG @ 18.91