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To: Kip518 who wrote (63)	3/16/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: doniam	Respond to of 140

Yes, I was smiling very much at the open and started to cash out ABIIB but held. I'm holding perhaps six of the top picks and can't decide if I'm smart to make the purchase, the program is smart to make the picks, or perhaps at least in part, the market has been very strong the last few weeks. Appreciate your comments about buying tops, and I'm also unconfortable with moving stops away from the price. I'll probably subscribe if I can get less than daily and the ability to check the web site daily. -Don PS So far the only bad thing about ABIIB is that I tried to get cute with my purchase and bought at 14 1/2 but got only 2/3 of my order filled. -Don

To: Kip518 who wrote (63)	3/17/1998 9:15:00 AM
From: jbay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 140

Like you, I got into ABIIB a couple of weeks ago & was pleasantly surprised to see it gap at the open yesterday (I think my reaction was a "whaaaa!?"). But I'm left wondering why it gapped yesterday, and hoping it's not because VV showed it as their "featured stock" in the weekend newsletter. Sure they've got fantastic fundamentals, but other than that VV mention, I'm not sure what caused the sudden onrush of interest. Any comments? Now I have to get the VV subscription...I promised myself that if it made me enough $ to justify it, I would. I wish they had intraday info available, though. Curious about what methods other people are using to screen things - I have VV look at things I can afford 1 to 3 hundred shares of, and what their price & volume trends have been like for the last few weeks, then check fundamentals on quote.yahoo.com (also checking to see how many analysts are covering), then look at charts (SMA, primarily). Then I agonize for a couple of days, buy (price invariably drops slightly just after I buy), and agonize again for a couple of weeks until the price recovers and I'm in the black again.