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To: John Doherty who wrote (678)	1/13/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: christopher	Respond to of 897

Well one thing I've discovered is that Bowser's Warrant Register picks do much better than the Bowser Report picks. I get both newsletters, track them both and invest in them both. As for the Bowser Ranking system...if you're going to use a "one measurement tells all" type of system I think it's as good as anything I've seen used on micro-caps. Value Line has a pretty good ranking system also but they follow almost no micro-caps. As for his picks he's had some dogs in the last year but also GYMM, JMAR & FCSE were great short term picks. (wish I would have sold all of my GYMM when it was up) The Bowser Report is good for ideas but we do our own DD. For what it costs it's worth it. There are newsletters out there that cost a lot more that are doing plain lousy. (As an example go look at the CTSL thread) I'm not sure about Bowser's sell strategy, 1/2 at double the other 1/2 ect...I'd like to hear more comment on that from other people, it seems I've done better at selling 30 40 50% up than waiting for doubles... Just my thoughts Chris

To: John Doherty who wrote (678)	1/13/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 897

John You can't depend on the reliability of newsletters for stock ranking. If you think about it as many subscribers as Max has picked up over the years, most will buy a position in his stock of the month if it checks ok on a surface check of fundamentals. This creates an opportunity for the writer, his employees, friends etc. to trade in an and out quick knowing the stock of the month usually has a small gain the first week the letter is out. What I call a self fulfilling prophet. I would be very leery of Max ratings because if you check back on them a high percentage were rip-offs like KRAN. I think you will find some of his best selections are sent in by subscribers but you only hear of a few. Thr Nasdaq small caps have been used to list stocks that have false listings. KRAN financials were a set of cooked books and never were the company MAX reported. The CFO took a vacation to ITALY the week they folded. Makes one wonder doesn't it?

To: John Doherty who wrote (678)	1/13/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: John F. Poteraske	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 897

John-I wondered about his bowser ranking. I believe he uses it to find purchases, but after that Im not sure if he updates his stocks until a failure occurs then says that the bowser rating had slipped to a 6 or something of that nature. I been trying to go back a couple years to try to figure out his performance if you bought equal dollar amounts in his company of the month picks-I don't think I will be able to calculate anything meaningful because I can't tell when reverse splits occurred etc. JP