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To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8125)	2/23/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: George Bielski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Whadda wonderful stock--never goes down, going to buy 1000 shares after this post.

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8125)	2/23/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

My GTC short sell at 125 kicked in today. Was surprised ... thought it would be later this week. So I've joined the AOL shorts on this ride to short hell. I only shorted a small amount and so have room to double-triple up at 140-150 if we move there. I tried AOL and still find it more annoying that helpful. Even after uninstalling it, I still got that Netscape Messaging box with the "Learn more" button. I finally agreed just to see if I could kill it after enabling it, but now the Netscape messenger pops up after reboot. Here's hoping WebTV plus with embedded web pages in the VBI begins to erode this overvalued puppy. -Bill

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8125)	2/23/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

interactive.wsj.com An excerpt from WSJ. It somehow fits here... "This is going to be a year of gyrations that get bigger and bigger," says Richard Bernstein, chief quantitative strategist at Merrill Lynch. "The problem is that earnings expectations and other fundamentals are changing so dramatically that there's no certainty surrounding any stock." That, he adds, makes investors more willing to chase advancing stocks higher, only to dump them on the slightest change in outlook. Sector rotation has been a hallmark of the bull market of the last three years. But traders and investors say these swings seem more violent and more short-lived than before. They say this "manic-depressive" market pattern is due partly to the new records recently set by major indexes, as well as the uncertainty surrounding valuations. "It is amazing how vicious this rotation has become," says Seth Tobias, a partner at Circle T Partners, a New York hedge fund. "Woe betide you if you're on the wrong side when the hot money starts chasing something higher and you're on the wrong side. And that wrong side could be right the next day." To cope, Mr. Tobias tries to spread his buying among a number of stocks in the same industry, rather than try to pick individual companies. Sometimes these stocks move as a group anyway, he says, as with semiconductors or airlines. It's easier to own a group of personal computer stocks, and watch one after another come into favor, than try to chase them one after another.

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8125)	2/23/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: RLM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

To have this stock tank, all I have to do is but it. I shorted on Friday, bad mistake. RLM

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8125)	2/23/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Bald Man from Mars	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Pancho, Pancho, Pancho: I told you not to read those 10Q stuff (you get more educational and entertaining value reading playboy - just the article, please), because nobody knows how to read it. It seems that it is in its final parabolic upmove, which usually leads to the same parabolic decline, so my man, sit tight, then let the rocket takes off, the gravity is going to bring it back to earth, just don't be a passenger on its way down ... Till then, take care of yourself ... By the way, how are other of your shorts work out ???