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To: Madharry who wrote (31184)	6/16/2008 12:23:33 PM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78659

Two things need to be considered here, Madharry. Risk and methodology. Getting results without having a methodology is a terrible thing because it makes repetition of results so difficult. If a guy works at PFE and gets PFE stock as a consequence and holds its Monsanto spinoff, what's the methodology of that kind of investing? Perhaps it's the idea of "Oh well, I can't really lose because I got the stock 'for free', so I don't really care about it and that makes it easy or easier for me to hold on to it." A method ought to be repeatable, and if (I presume here) the fellow only just received some shares of stock as a consequence of his employment, I don't see where he shows any prowess for picking stocks. Great though that he made money and maybe lots of it.