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Strategies & Market Trends : 1 Pick Per Mo for 50% Return -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph Strohsahl who wrote (1508)	12/8/1997 5:59:00 PM
From: James H. Irwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1770

Omega Research good, but try Best Software: OMGA at the low 5 level was a great pick, unfortunately my first purchase was @ 8 5/8. I bought a bit more at 7 1/4, then loaded at 5 5/8 (feeling bad I missed the 5 1/4 kind). Anyway I was selling at the 7 3/8 level. I am now out but will repurchase on pull backs. Another stock worth noting for those looking for a 50%ish move is Best Software (BEST), check out the thread I started a week or so ago. My contact tells me there is $44 million in cash (4.19/share). Estimates are 44 cents this year going to 56 cents. Another poster queried me as to whether that amount is net of debt. I have a call in to my contact and as yet am uncertain. Check out the thread, the stock has recently based, cleaning up a significant seller who was obviously displeased that the stock was going down...imagine that when you are a large indiscriminate seller. But then again it is the large indiscriminate institutional sellers who provide opportunities for those who aren't worried about offsetting gains with a short-term loser when typically that same institutional seller has less than 1% of their investment portfolio involved and whose performance never reflects buying 100,000 shares of a stock at $13 and selling at $9...we should all be so lucky. The stock has a SOES lot size of 200 shares so it can be difficult to buy in size, but for those that play in the 1000 share size you might need to buy a larger Christmas stocking. Bon Chance. JHI P.S. I am obviously long, so take the above with a grain or two of salt.