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To: zalesky who wrote (57997)	8/13/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: JRI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

You state that you owned Dell in the past.........You (most likely) would have been much better off BUYING AND HOLDING DELL than making trades (especially after taxes) in the last few years........Does your trading return 2600% in three years....I did see anyone on the Dell bull or bear thread predict Dell rising from (a low of) 77 to 118 1/4 in five weeks during June/July, a rise of over 50%......this wasn't part of any (recognizable) pattern.......good luck if you think (because a couple times in past the stock has sold off after earnings).........Dell runs when it wants to........IMO, the probability is just is great that it will make a huge run (after no run-up to earnings) right after earnings...In all likelihood, there is little or no (reliable) statistical basis for either one of our predictions.....Holding Dell for a while is the way to go......Good luck with your trades....

To: zalesky who wrote (57997)	8/13/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

zalesky, I don't own stock in companies that have dishonest management. That leaves CPQ completely out of the picture. As for selling Dell because it might pull back 10 or 15 points because it might miss some nebulous whisper number, that would be a stupid move IMHO. Even if it does pull back 15 I would still have a double since the first of the year. If I sell today the tax bite would drop the actual price I get for my shares to under $90. Let's recap...Sell the fastest growing computer company run by a man of integrity, pay a huge tax bill, and put the much reduced capital into a struggling behemoth whose leadership has a problem with coming clean with their shareholders. Sounds like a brilliant plan to me...NOT!!!!