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Non-Tech : ZOLT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maverick who wrote (648)	2/20/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: Paul Kelly	Respond to of 970

I'm sure you will have another good buying opportunity. ZOLT is arguably the most volatile stock I own(has a price stability percentile of 5 per Value Line) and the greatest risk IMO is timing the sell not the buy. But, I really admire those who have had the fortitude to buy and hold from five years ago.The appreciation has been 1868%! I think you are absolutely correct on Vector Vest. It's largely momentum analysis and I suppose that works for many investors. I think they are an interesting second opinion in any event. I'm on a thirty day trial with the full service Zacks and am considering signing up. My problem is that if I followed their recs on most of my stocks, I would be in a very healthy CASH position-secure but not much fun. On the other hand one of my more conservative holdings CINF an Ohio P&C Insurance Company catapulted from an also ran to a 1 in Zacks following their announcement of a 3:1 split to be made in May. Not sure if the rating changed because of that or because the fundamentals got Zacks attention as a result of the announcement. Unfortunately, I will need to make a decision on subscribing well before then. By the way, I run into your posts seemingly everywhere. You provide a real service to a lot of us.Thanks for taking the time.

To: Maverick who wrote (648)	2/27/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Paul Kelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 970

Maverick, Zacks own rating of ZOLT is 4 as of this week-up from the 5 which you noted previously. Do you have a sense for Zacks' ratings over the past year or so? Spoke to them recently and they said they tended to be conservative in their rating approach( which they say is independent and more than simply an "average" report of the analysts they survey)Also, the rating is their current judgement of performance over the next Quarter. Might be interesting to track their ratings against past performance, at least for ZOLT. Paul