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To: Paul Senior who wrote (20029)	11/5/2004 10:19:58 PM
From: - with a K	Respond to of 78710

I am amazed at how many investing mistakes I make. I don't buy, the stock moves up to torture me. I buy, the stock drops; I sell a stock, it goes up. Over and over again. Yes, this happens to everybody. Everybody. Some recent thoughts rattling around in my noggin lately: "Well, for a lot of mistakes you've made - and will continue to make? - you're still doing pretty darn good. It's kinda like a batting average." "Ya know, numbskull, if you'd just do the OPPOSITE of what your emotions tell you to do, you'd be a lot better off. Buy more when you get scared and want to sell. Sell when you think you should add cause you think you're such a genius and this baby is runnin." Mr. Market can be a humbling bastard sometimes, and then, as you say, once in a great while...