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To: Jill who wrote (285950)	5/3/2004 12:57:26 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Yes you can put stops in, when investing long-term, but people tend not to do so, as they become attached to their analysis of the fundamentals and convinced of their perspective...it's a bit dangerous, don't you agree? No, I don't agree. What is "questionable" here is not the entire method of fundamental analysis and long term investing, but the individual investor's intelligence quotient. do you see that happen for the most part? Yes, in the professional arena, I do. I do not know what the market is going to do and when. My main occupation has nothing to do with trading and sometimes I get so busy with that I can hardly watch the market at all Then, I sincerely recommend you, as someone who wishes you no harm, to not engage in anything to do with financial markets. Choose a clever guy you trust, whose whole business is to know what the market is going to do and who follows the market all his waking hours. It takes all kinds to make a market, so there's room for everybody Of course there is. The question is whether or not your place in the market is that of a small fish to be eaten or that of the sharks following it all the time and with serious devotion of time and energy. To be perfectly honest with you, us professionals love the presence of small investors in the market with relatively low access to real-time information and an understanding of the underlying macro & micro trends. If not for them, this would be a much tougher market to make money in. Sorry if any of this sounds harsh. I am just trying to help. Not many people in this business will be this honest :-)