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To: Clint E. who wrote (15833)	5/4/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: space cadet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 68145

Hi Clint, Don't give up. There's a lot of stuff you can do with yourself if you are master of your own domain. Anyway, I haven't been active with the market lately, as I don't seem to have any good feel for it these days. I think it is definitely heading above 10k but I wanted to see some kind of pullback first, which never really came. As a result my calls all have covered calls on them, and my position is really boring. The only uncovered options are some amd puts that I have. I don't know what keeps that stock up! I also am planning and partly have executed a very complicated long and short option position on msft. Basically I am hoping that msft does nothing till may options expire and then msft heads northward. Does that seem reasonable to you? For that matter do you have any overall feelings about the market's direction now? It seems that a lot of the exciting action is now in the tiny cap action, with some of those stocks doubling within hours. It's frustrating because I am gunshy and I haven't caught any of that action, though I've read alot about the success here at SI. Have you played any of the cheapo momentum stocks lately? Also I'm considering zona as a short at some point, as I think the viagra hype is starting to die down.

To: Clint E. who wrote (15833)	5/5/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 68145

Clint, I'm going to keep posting and you should too.. (everyone else also) WHY? Because we can all talk about what we could have/ should have done ... but talk is cheap. Action reports, from the front line are everything and the only way we can all learn. I doubt the credibility of many on SI, they talk about the trades they made a month ago.. or they say something like ".. as I said" or ".. I knew the bottom." Then you ask them for a real time opinion and they don't have anything to say because it hasn't happened yet... <g> The only way we can all learn, and that includes self understanding of the reasons we trade, is to make the real time (or as close as) notice with any kind of reason... what we do and why. Having been a technical writer I'm amazed at the poor quality of this post.. but its real time without edit... and that's important. Holding short HAL, long CYMI, GDC, CHIR.. Would love to short KTEL.. how much Ricky Nelson can the world take? Jim