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Technology Stocks : Texas Instruments - Good buy now or should we wait? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim A who wrote (2955)	1/30/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: robert w fain	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6180

Jim I was thinking the same thing except just as I did Kurlak at M.L. came out with negative comments on TI and the whole semi group. Since I feel that Kurlak does not have a clue I would tend to wait till he gives a positive set of comments before I sell.

To: jim A who wrote (2955)	1/30/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: TREND1	Respond to of 6180

jim you wrote: <<I've been told and read: buy good blue chip co.s on bad news (dowwngrades) and sell on good news (upgrades) Comments?>>> Jim You have it half right ! (1) Buy on bad news and sell on good news (2) Also, Buy on MHH(monthly higher high)! Sell on MLL(monthly lower low) We just got the MHH BUY at 52 !!! Larry Dudash

To: jim A who wrote (2955)	1/30/1998 2:27:00 PM
From: otter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6180

My comments: Why are you trying to time the market? If TXN is good, then it is good. My suggestion is that unless you are a short term investor, you don't care if a strong market today means a strong market tomorrow or not. To the extent that an analyst can give respectable information, you integrate it but you aren't driven by it. That said, it seems to me that we are making too much of what the analysts are saying; while at the same time, castigating them for hearing them say things we don't like. In the last 6 months or so, I think I've heard the same analysts upgrade then downgrade then upgrade again. The market reacts; but it also reacts to other things as well..... Macroevents, microevents, Greenspan, Iraq, the Super Bowl, and the phase of the moon. My point: Do the due diligence thing, look at what the analysts say, evaluate the market and the products of the enterprise, and then make your own decision......