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To: carranza2 who wrote (86077)	1/18/2012 10:32:24 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218201

just out, and that which is simplest is most elegant, also most useful From: J Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Comments - Week of January 16 - back-testing on dead bulls back-testing the 80/20 rule of thumb (80% of bull gain arises within the last 20% of bull time) dead bull subject: toll brothers finance.yahoo.com start of bull: november 1990 @ 0.56/shr (after meandering for years, finally leaving the steady-state price behind and never looked back) end of bull: july 2005 @ 55.42/shr (needle all-time high) all-in bull-gain: 55/shr (do not quibble over the odd cents!) elapsed bull run time: bang-on 176 months start of bull-run-end-stage: 141th months (11 years and 9 months) from inception, or end august 2002, (by definition) tol price in end august 2002: 12.50/shr, and as percentage of total bull gain, approx 12/55 = 22% of total eventual all-in bull-gain much closer than the usual government work almost bang ^$#@%23 on we must answer our generation's call of duty