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Pastimes : James Cramer Skeptic Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: taxikid who wrote (28)	5/29/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1254

Oh I see taxikid--being a member of SI has not done me any good. You probably looked at my portfolio, and saw that I'm down a few percent--that is what you meant! Yes? No, I think you are wrong. Silicon Investor has been a very useful resource, and right or wrong I attribute my success in the past several months primarily to the information found on SI. Before I got very involved with SI, I did very poorly in my trades. My trading account only broke even. It was pathetic! But this year my account has run from $15k to around 70k (I have some cash in there, so if you look at my portfolio you wont see that). I would say the stocks in my basket now has an average time in my account of about a month. Several were bought in just the last week--MINE being the obvious stinker. So, if that is what you meant, that SI has not done me any good, I would say that I think it has. Of course, I never buy anything I discover in the Journal these days--so maybe that is actually the reason for my change of luck. It is also possible that in the terrific run up earlier this spring, choosing beat up micro caps was the trick, and throwing darts at these types of stocks would have given me a great return too--that is my biggest fear.