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To: Thomas George Warner who wrote (8242)	12/16/1997 10:55:00 PM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Respond to of 11057

I'm not rigid to any method, I just find that my trades don't seem to last much longer than 4 months except on rare occassions. At some point within the time I buy and 4 months, I've had some reason to sell. I have had gains of anywhere of 100% to 500% in that interval and I have had losses of up to 60% also. I don't sit on big gains in the techs for a long period of time though, but there are exceptions. It just depends. I have been in stocks for up to a year on occassion. It is all case by case. I don't usually play the go long stocks, so that is part of it. I never bought Cisco and held it for 5 years, nothing like that. I have made just as much money moving in and out of HLIT over the last 18 months for example. AWRE was another HLIT-style cash register. WSTL was a win lose win lose lose win win kind of thing. A lot of work and not enough to show for the effort. I have a lot of balls in the air though, so it works out ok. Right now, I don't have hardly any balls getting juggled. I was considering JBIL and didn't play it under 30 and I have that to regret.