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To: im a survivor who wrote (11070)	8/6/2003 3:15:32 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

This is surely difficult to come up with any useful rules , we have all this rotation and volatility to deal with. One thing surprizing is that I have a much higher percentage profit( if there is any), when dealing with smaller invested amounts. So the idea of building up a portfolio based on market profits seldom works well as one tends to keep the gainers too long and become too sure of them Its better to hurt a little, and keep the possible negatives in mind My problem of the last the days has been the profit taking, when people get worried, as they have been, they dump the big gainers which I am often holding. They may still be good stocks, but a person has to be hardheaded and not too responsive to that action. I am not good at that, but do manage to hang on to the Dell, Tsco, and Agi fairly well which interestingly are not the boomers. Regards Sig