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To: Bill Levy who wrote (10)	12/16/1997 3:05:00 PM
From: Don S.Boller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

Bill: You have posted two of the VERY BEST methods for picking stocks (our big-bagger types)...The trouble is that - not many chart services show the bottoming out patterns that WE agree on. (The usefulness of this thread will be posts like yours(...Buying the fallen angel IPOs can also be very pro- fitable....particularly if the underwrting group was headed by the "right names"...such as Alex Brown, Hambrecht & Quist, BofA Rob. Stevens, Goldman, etc....(Doubt if the technique works as well with smaller regional underwriters). What do you think? Thanks for contributing. Don

To: Bill Levy who wrote (10)	12/16/1997 4:26:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

HI Bill; looks like a good stragegy; and one that can be back tested easy enough for me to do. :-) I will add that in some case these companies go under, and or get delisted to the OTC or pink sheet..so in back testing it looks like you will find winners but the losers are often no longer listed..however if the upside of the winners is good..and a person hangs onto it one can offset a number a lossers.. ---------------------- Biotech..or companies that eat a lot of cash and never show profits or growth can really go under. I also notice that the small cap mutual funds who brag about how they favor out of favor stocks, don't do as well in general as the other mutual funds. ----------------------------- Here is some out of favor things to watch.. AR PCU KEF and the basket EWP I bought KEF today at 3 AR and PCU will follow copper prices..a small move up in copper just ten cents sends these two up. EWP follows the Japan index and is sort of like our SPY is to the S&P. KEF is a closed end fund with a basket of Korean stocks, keeping a close eye on the WON and recovery in Korea is a must if you buy it, if the WON recovers it will fly. I should have bought it yesterday when it was 2-3/4 Jim