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To: michael meyers who wrote (4639)	4/18/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: EDC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Does anyone think that shorting the indexes (SPY & DIA) is a good idea? So far I have not done to well. Ed

To: michael meyers who wrote (4639)	4/18/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Boca_PETE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

MichaelM: RE:< using dollar cost averaging to enter a market, it seems to me that the same idea works in reverse, i.e. dollar cost average out. > Instead of "dollar-cost-avering" out of the market, what do you think of the idea of selling out an equal number of shares in installments over some period ("Share-Cost-Avering" out) as a way of harvesting the maximum dollar amount from selling out your holdings ? P

To: michael meyers who wrote (4639)	4/18/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Respond to of 42834

Michael: Curiously enough, this idea of "dollar cost averaging out of the market" was the very subject raised by a very articulate Briton a weekend or two ago on the MoneyTalk show. Brinker, as is his wont, listened polite- ly to the argument advanced by the caller to the end. At which point, Brinker declared that he did not see the rationale of such an approach during the course of a sus- tained bull market. Instead, he re-asserted his twice-told methodology, ie., identifying the onset of a full fledged bear market or an "intermediate term correction" (q.v) and "getting out" of the market all hallow.