To: mishedlo who wrote (15755 ) 1/9/2003 11:41:47 PM From: bobby beara Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 19219 Why be contrarian at this point anyway. Perhaps the public is finally aligned to the trend. The middle portion of the move, yet still resigned to wait it out as opposed to cash out. Fund inflows have stopped. Average Joe is tired of losing, but not tired enough to vash out. When he cashes out, that will be the bottom. Might be 4 more years.<<< He is cashin out dood, the average joe hates the stockmarket, thinks abby joe is related to mighty joe young, thinks every ceo is a crook, thinks that market makers, brokers and analysts are croupiers (they were from the beginning -lol-) this is a complete reverse during the bull market when they worshipped abby joe, and thought ceo's were the king of the woild, they worshipped gates, ebbers, dell, chambers, et al. Contrarian thinking is only good at the turns, and there is no science for that, but you bitter pills who have been bearish most likely longer than your hero david tice (bearish since 1992) have to give up that fact that there is a place in life for optimism (not pollyannaism) and the end of the world is not around the next corner, the demise of the world is greatly exaggerated (to paraphrase Mark Twain) being perpetually bearish and pessimistic hasn't earned you a dime over the last decade, if you turned correctly bearish at the 2000 top you made money, very few bears on SI were so timely, most of the SI bears that think they are now financial genius, have been bearish since the inception of si 1996 (and probably before that), in 2000 the bulls thought they were financial genius, that trend ended, just like every trend ends. It's a huge joke that you people huddle around idiots like lucretious, this guy has a hard time making a timely leg thru his tidy widies, before he puts on his pants, much less a timely market call.