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To: jtechkid who wrote (19190)	5/7/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

jtechkid, you said >>REGARDING PE , this is where investors always get killed because they look at trailing pe << I remember a few posts here were threaders computed PE for a forward period and compared it to historic PE. Yes, that leaves you vulnerable to changes in EPS estimates. But it's better than flying blind. The unspoken assumption is that the stock price becomes lofty when the forward PE begins to exceed historic PE. It's a guide, just like PS ratio. GM