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To: BlueFox who wrote (8997)	6/16/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18444

>>>Blast the stock in order to help make it cheap; then when it gets cheap buy some more. Sure, it could be done, but I think we're placing a little to much value on SI if assume blasting a stock here is going to have a large enough effect on the general market to make this possible. BF<<< BlueFox, I'm surprised at you. You don't think that there's a Jon Tara, Other Chap, or even a Fred type on every stock discussion thread going? Come on, now! It's not just SI. All you need is to plant the seeds of doubt; a bit here and a bit there. Follow these seeds with someone who speaks eloquently, and? Bingo! You've created doubt. Note though that it is the eloquent doubter who posts on SI--that's 'cause everybody checks in here. You only need one good speaker who follows everything, and then a couple of chipshot artists who show up now and then calling investors "chumps" or "you made a mistake" or something like this. There's two ironic things that money creates besides bad behavior: Fear and confidence. One is confident when having it; but fearful when losing it. The bad behavior speaks for itself and is judged best from the heart. What's it take to create the following thought? "Hmm, why is this person so persistently against this stock? And what that guys says seems to make sense. Gees, maybe the stock really isn't all that it's cracked up to be? Hmmm." So a sprinkling of flippant doubts tossed in here, more flippant doubts tossed in there; then someone reading Yahoo sees the same thing on AOL, or Bobz or Motely Fool, wherever, and then encounters the postings of the eloquent speaker whose studied the stock up and down, knows its weak points, even its strengths. Under this scenario seeds of doubt are implanted and those newfound doubts are therefore open for consideration. Once confidence is shaken (and aren't the good ole' money makers good at that!), it could be anything that might force someone to sell thereafter. And of course someone will always come along and buy up those sold shares that are now cheaper the manipulator to get. Indeed, don't be fooled. Hold your ground until you absolutely know what's up! No, BlueFox, it's not simply the power of SI that causes selling and buying (or shorting), but rather the combined blend of how things are perceived.