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To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (69092)	10/18/2005 12:14:23 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 77400

well, to be fair, most of the market looks like this. In fact, I recall stories on CNBC where every investment manager was getting calls about why they weren't in Google (because Google is the only stock to outperform this year, it seems). Even the hypergrowth areas like China had unperforming stocks except a very few that some people got lucky with. The bottom line is that we are in one of these sluggish 70s-style markets right now and you pretty much just have to ride it out.

To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (69092)	10/18/2005 12:57:43 AM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

It's interesting, if you look in the biz section of the Sunday NY Times they list the 20 most popular stocks owned in Merrill Lynch accounts. I looked at YTD performance for each in the chart, and 16 out of the 20 were down for the year. The only two with double digit percentage gains (both in the teens as I recall) were oils, XOM and Chevron. The other two gainers had gains of under 2% on the year, don't recall the exact issues at the moment. John