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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (16136)	4/12/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: Investor-ex!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bonnie, Here's a site you might like. magma.ca

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (16136)	4/12/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Hi Bonnie; Re> Jim: food for thought number of stocks by market cap 1 billion or more- 1,550 500m- 1B- 845 300-500m- 753 5 mil-300mil- 6400 It's a little lopsided, isn't it? Pension plans like large cap stocks so they have "liquidity" ---------------------------------------- I break my paper portfolios up cap wise much dif than the above. That 1 billion or more leaves a lot of money comingled. With aprox $11,000 in each grope weighted by market cap. 1 to 10 B IS hot cap wise just above the small cap range. 1 to 10 B gain $2000 10 to 50B gain $1650 50 to 100B gain $1350 100 up gain $1180 ---------------------------- a radom group from 100m to 1B the gains were like only $ 650 and were by far the poorest. ------------------------- Mico caps under 100M were the very hotest, gain $2400.. but also had the most volitility. ------------------------- These gains were from DEC 5th which is when I last weighted this bunch. -------------------------- Prior to DEC 5th from OCT 27th they were all down but ONE.. during the mini bear market OCT to JAN 12..the MEGA caps over 100B actually made money as every thing else was going down..if one had weighted in them they would have done ok, then in jan switched to the 1 to 10 B ... ----------------------- Thing with the numbers of issues, as you put them just "2" companies on the top of that 1500 could swollow up all 753 of thoes 300-500M, and if you took the ten top caps in the DOW they could eat that 753 and not even hicup. --------------------- And while they might be 1,500 over 1B to 6,400 5-300M ..just the top 20% of that 1,500.. ie the top 30 stocks cap wise could eat every one of the bottom 6,400.. --------------------------- Something to thing about. :-) ----------------- Man I hate this new 10-20-30 circuit breaker.. 5-10-15 would have been plenty..the SEC just gave the big gorillas with their program trading a free hand to commite genocide at their leasure on the working man and his savings. Their arugments don't hold water..and are only looking at one side of the coin. Not only did we not have the kind of program trading back then that we do now..10% represnts much more capitol than it did..much much more..no matter what, if you move 20% of the capitol no individual will get to a broker you wont sell, short or cover shorts nothing as they won't answer the damm phones..only the big gorillas will be trading. In effect they locked you and me out on a big fall..and let the program trading take over..come the 15th stocks will be much more risk prone for the small investor..and you better learn to go with a mutual fund , a big one at that. --------------------------- The new triggers just increased the ablity of the big ones to eat the little ones..it's criminal in nature. Standing on the original intent argument is pure sham... if they want to use that argument then we should get rid of income tax ...as the origial intent was to never have a personal tax. How dare they present such a stupid argument, as if we are all ignorant little morons. Jim ticked off at the 10-20-30 SEC pampering of the Wall Street criminals.