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To: Paul Senior who wrote (49639)	10/6/2012 1:58:07 AM
From: Paul Senior	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78748

Well, I wrote a detailed response why I post what I post and in the way I post. This came about from Sergio H's comment: "Most of your posts indicate that you suffer heavy losses from losing positions." For various reasons I've decided not to post that complete response, and instead say that the more accurate observation would be, yes, "Many of my posts indicate I am experiencing losses from losing positions". I do use the adjective "losing" intentionally so as to alert and be of assistance to other value investors. OTOH, a more subtle observation might be that over the past many years I seldom post specifically that I have gains/profits in a particular stock. That's intentional too. It's only rare that I will post that "I'm taking profits", "I have a double here", or "I made money on this one". What you'll usually find from me, if you do a search, is that I will say "I'm closing my position" or "I'm selling some shares", or maybe "I'm following you out with a sale" or "I still have my position". If you're in those same stocks, or you've followed them closely when they were discussed here or look at my reference prior link(s), you might be able to figure the gain I might have had. Of course, most people - not following the stock or not in it themselves - they wouldn't care one way or the other.