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To: flashy who wrote (245)	5/24/1998 10:32:00 PM
From: R Stevens	Respond to of 1729

Flashy, You posted, "My tactic vs. the one you described, is WAITING until the earnings are posted." Here is the quote from my post #116, "For example: When Dell's price did not move up strongly the morning after it released earnings, that was the first indicator to me that it might go down." Looks like our tactics were similar on this one. Also I think that earnings acceleration is more important than earnings growth. ie: The growth rate of earning's growth. There was a story in Briefing.com after Dell released earnings. The CFO at Dell was quoted as saying it would be tough to grow as fast this year as they did last year. Thus they are still growing but not as fast as they were. My experience has been that when this starts to happen to a company, the stock price begins to suffer. (I am not recommending a position on Dell...I currently do not have one...just want to give an example.) RS PS: Did you say you "haven't done too bad" or "too too bad"? ;) Also do you know how to read your private messages on SI?