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To: strider who wrote (1584)	3/14/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Phil Jacobson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3351

For TA people: If Vectorvest is accurate for its TA (I don't have experience with it yet) then it's time to buy more. Intrinsic value is 11.30 and the SELL STOP is where a lot of people seem to be waiting for it to go before they buy more - 9.40. I know Vectorvest is proprietary and I won't make a habit of posting info, but I think just this once is OK. Date 13-Mar-1998 Symbol APCO Company Name Auto Protection Exchange NASDAQ Price 10.50 Value 11.30 Relative Value 1.18 (good) Relative Safety 0.91 (fair) Relative Timing 1.63 (excellent) VST Vector 1.29 (very good) value/safety/timing combo Growth Rate 22% per year (excellent) Recommendation Buy Stop 9.40 Open 10.10 High 10.90 Low 10.10 Volume 150700 Average Volume 200580 Dividend 0.00 Div Yield 0.0 Earnings Yield 4.14% (below mkt avg of 4.92%) EPS 0.44 PE 24.14 YSG 0.00 (very poor) Dividend/yield/safety combo Growth/PE 0.91 (suggests overvalued) Percent Change Price -0.9 Percent Change Volume -24.9 Recommendation: APCO has about average safety with above average upside potential. It reflects a stock which is likely to give above average, relatively consistent returns over the long term.

To: strider who wrote (1584)	3/15/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Larry Bongiovi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3351

Strider, Many times people claim to use T.A. will post to either hype a stock or to scare someone into selling, where the charts are not even close to what the person is saying. The last few post by the so called T.A. are fairly accurate. The charts are saying that APCO is going to correct down. If you look at the charts you will see a beautiful long term chart, and you will see many indicators that say the stock is going to correct. Just because the charts are giving a short term sell signal doesn't mean that everyone should be selling out. $9.50 is a support level and I personally would not be surprised if it went back down to that level. If you are a trader, you would be a fool to not pay attention to the charts. Most of the people on this thread are not traders but long term investors. The problem with selling based on the charts is that you usually get out of the stock at the right time (short term), and it turns back up on you before you get back into it (most of the time you are lucky to get back in at the point you sold). Therefore most investors just sit there and watch the stock correct. If I were a trader, I would have sold on Friday. I hate to see a stock that I am in correct, but that is the way the market works. If you are a long term investor, you will look at this correction as an opportunity. I don't think that the person who was giving information about what he saw was trying to sway anyone into selling their investment. This is just another opinion with a different take on what was said. Larry