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To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 7:48:00 AM
From: Grant	Respond to of 176387

The most convincing argument for buying DELL now is having sold your shares earlier. GO DELL !!!!!!!!!! Grant .51 and a tufer w/ strong positive comments from MIKE

To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: jhg_in_kc	Respond to of 176387

Sig, your explanation of beta is RIGHT ON. I prefer it to Chuzzlewit's. For once the cat got too arcane for humans to comprehend. yours is, as the Cajuns say, more beta. jhg

To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Don Martini	Respond to of 176387

Sig, Super Post! I'm gettin my muney out of the market and into the matress Keep it up! Don

To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 10:37:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Respond to of 176387

Since the cat has been duly chastised for speaking mathematics rather than English, let's put beta and volatility this way: how nervous are people about earnings forecasts and growth? Beta, in theory, ought to be a constant -- a characteristic of the company. Unfortunately, it isn't. It varies with the age of the company (older companies tending to have betas approaching 1.0) and the size of the company. As a result, different betas are estimated depending on the length of time used for the calculation, the index etc. Hope this helps. TTFN, CTC

To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: Zeem	Respond to of 176387

-=OT=- Well said Sig!!!!! Those bonds are the safest place to be, I hear they double every 13 years or so, oooh! (VBG) Cheers

To: Sig who wrote (57766)	8/12/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 176387

<GGG> Sig, you need to have an addendum or follow-up to your post that allows for a three month time period to pass after the broker put you in government bonds. It goes like this.... Three months from now.... Broker: "We think rates are moving up, and so we'd like to move you out of those government bonds, and into stocks. Our research department has come up with some great internet plays, like Amazon, Yahoo, and Lycos. Now I know what you're thinking, these stocks have been up 200% in the last month, but we think that they're real value plays for the long term. Now don't worry if they drop twenty to fifty points. We think in then end you'll make money. We also like Apple Computer, Applied Materials, and Sunbeam...." Three months after that.... Broker: "We want to move you out of the internet stocks. We know you've lost a lot of money in them over the past three months of their entry into the bear market (not correction), but sometimes it's best just to get out. Look at it this way, you can write the losses off of your taxes...Sorry too about the Sunbeam, we didn't even see the bankruptcy coming. We do think you should hold the Apple. We think Steve Jobs is really cool, and with their new direct market model, are sure to break DELL's stranglehold on the PC business. We also like Compaq as sort of the non-DELL, anti-Direct model play. We think that now that Compaq is starting (02/1999) to get their inventory under control, they should be fine. The stock has much upward appreciation potential from $18, and we hear that the company is going to do a 5 for 4 stock split soon.... Oh, thanks for helping me be the #1 broker in our office year-to-date. I couldn't have done it without you." <GGG> LoD