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To: Rudy who wrote (9261)	12/10/1997 2:03:00 AM
From: Wall Street Jr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13456

Hi Rudy! Are you sure you want to go or you just have to go? You're gonna miss all of this and you will be missed. Thanks for the hard work and a fun contest you contributed on this thread. Has anyone volunteered to continue the game? *1 stock 1 week* NSM long open 12/10/97. Anyways, make sure you have a good time as well. Good luck and try to keep in touch if you can.

To: Rudy who wrote (9261)	12/10/1997 2:48:00 AM
From: WTMHouston	Respond to of 13456

Rudy: your sentiments are why I love that commercial that begins with the couple walking into the large, beautiful, obviously very expensive, new home and then the commentator says something like "Your hard earned money bought this lovely new home: it's your brokers!" Troy P.S. - CTAL announced after the bell that Enron was buying 15% of their Combustion subsidiary for $30MM with a 3 year option to buy another 5% for $14.4MM. My guess is that this was the news driving the stock last week and the released news on the plant expansion was a fake out to take the speculation away before this announcement. I got greedy and wanted it to drop to 10 1/2 before I got back in...10 3/4 to 7/8 today just wasn't good enough....I'll regret it tomorrow morning when it gaps.

To: Rudy who wrote (9261)	12/10/1997 9:34:00 AM
From: LK2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13456

>>Why do we need "analysists"???<<I read somewhere there's a good reason why analysts downgrade a stock that drops sharply, like ORCL did yesterday. Supposedly, when the stock price performance of the analyst's recommendations is figured, if an analyst downgrades a stock like ORCL BEFORE the stock opens down, he is credited with the previous day's closing price. So it makes a lot of sense for analysts to downgrade these stocks for bragging rights, etc. The analysts have a shrewder system than the APM stock-picking contest (at least they look better, even if they can't pick any better). -LK