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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (56948)	1/22/2009 10:51:45 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Oh shit, I'm sorry to hear that. To this day when I remember those times I am still thankful that it all happened in the same tax year. Talk about confusing a bear market, in my case, with brilliance. You know what is really odd? I bought the bottom of the SPX within an hour or two with 50 calls and wigged out when it pulled back and went back to shorting the market. I shudder to think what I would have had if I had just shut the puter off and walked away. No, I don't shudder. I've figured it out, close to 4 million if I had held till they expired. So I guess in essence I turned 4 million into zero. I console myself to this fact to this day, if I had hit that home run I still would have lost it all because I was gambling and letting it all ride. Sure recipe for disaster, just a matter of when. Now I confine my gambling to blackjack:) you were craps if I remember. Do you play anymore?