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To: michael john stout who wrote (4006)	9/17/2003 5:52:30 PM
From: Crossy	Respond to of 37387

Michael, only natural that the almost broke stocks are more volatile - down AND up ! I don't envy that guy. It's his method. Let him have his.. I have mine.. There's a difference between daytrading, position trading and investing. It's important to recognize these differences.. hope you don't start to short - you could loose your shirt here. Better buy put options or even better - doing covered call writing as yield enhancement for more prominent stocks.. NTLI is now optionable.. would be THE candidate for such strategies.. rgrds CROSSY

To: michael john stout who wrote (4006)	9/17/2003 5:56:27 PM
From: Patentlawmeister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37387

Mike - another blip about your favorite topic: the current bubble: (btw - fwiw, my strategy for dealing with the current echo bubble: i hold a portion of my port. in bubble stocks like NTLI, CMNT, MHCA just in case the bubble continues to inflate; hold a good portion of my port in cash; and the rest in single digit p/e value stocks like CREB, CAMY, IECE, EGAM, CGNW, IDSA, RONC): "Bubble is back," TrimTabs warns by Jonathan Burton SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- A fivefold increase in margin debt at Nasdaq member firms prompted market data provider TrimTabs.com to warn Wednesday that "the bubble is back" in U.S. stocks. Margin debt rose to $26 billion at July 31 from $5.1 billion at Dec. 31 -- adding $19 billion in June and July alone. That figure represents 15 percent of the total outstanding, compared to 7.1 percent in March 2000. TrimTabs' warning follows regulatory agency NASD's investor alert Monday that trading "on margin" is up 25 percent year-to-date and many investors may underestimate the risks. The NASD alert suggests that Nasdaq members are being required to tighten margin rules after a period of relaxation, TrimTabs said. "When a loosening becomes a tightening, the affected stocks collapse. That is in part what happened in early 2000 when the Nasdaq tightened margin requirements on some of the more aggressive stocks."