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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: taxikid who wrote (7058)	4/15/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: Bald Man from Mars	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

<<probably not... although it seems to me you have an inexhaustable supply of fresh capital... as you have never said "yee-ha I just made 10 grand" publicly, and even before i met ya, like last year, you kept have intolerable losses... so either you play with deep pockets or you are just pulling our (wink, wink) legs. taxi>> Taxi-dude: I did have my lumps, but I don't usually take large position with respect to the amount of capital, most of the time 2%-3%, so even I got hit (and it is painful). it is not fatal. It is painful for someone to lose $100 if that is all one has, but it is not painful for someone who has $10,000. Losing is always painful regardless of how much you lose, I don't want to tell you that I only lost $100, to a lot of people, $100 is nothing, but to an almost homeless man like me, $100 means a week of rent ...