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To: - with a K who wrote (18909)	3/19/2004 12:22:44 AM
From: Paul Senior	Respond to of 78497

-with a K: It's been my feeling that I could be and should be more helpful here by emphasizing much more the stocks that that I and others say they are buying. Often, I want to say, "BUY THIS STOCK - it's dirt-cheap and a GOOD VALUE. Wake up!!!!" The problem with my wanting to say all this though, is that I've had GLBL (cut in half just within a few days) CEGE going nowhere, AQQ drifting down, BAY going nowhere, MSFT dropping, etc. etc. In past years, I've had many picks crash into bankruptcy. I sometimes suspect I might pick more losing stocks than anybody else on the thread. Anyway, I AM wrong many, many times. So I'm real reluctant to pound the table on any particular stock pick - mine or anyone else's - and say, "buy, buy, BUY!" I look through my list of recent purchases - there are some that I'm real okay with - MCGC, MAT, VLO, BLI, OXY, DRD - I expect for most all, that I might have to hold for a while to see higher prices- but with my record of mistakes, I just cannot see the future clearly enough to try to get anyone else excited about these. The way I post, I normally don't mention particular stocks over and over again that I am just holding, unless I am buying more, or maybe I'll just make an aside comment when somebody else mentions the stock. So, many stocks that were mentioned here a couple years or more ago, that engendered controversial discussions here or were ignored here, and that haven't been mentioned here for quite a while, these are the stocks I have or am about to take profits in now - GD, BKS, INVN(!), ZQK, GET, FRE, etc., etc. It's just that, when I look at this side of it, I start to believe I know what I'm talking about. However, (sigh), the other side of the story says, 'not quite' -g-.