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To: Dell-icious who wrote (58287)	8/14/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Dell-icious; that's true, i recall this as well. it was only on the day OF the earnings report that Dell moved ahead $5, and only two hours before close. the next day it opened $5+ today is nothing more than a walkdown

To: Dell-icious who wrote (58287)	8/14/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: Logos	Respond to of 176387

RE: <<I just checked the DELL chart before the Feb earnings, and it was pretty much flat for the week before earnings; around 110-113, before it popped up 9 bucks the day after the earnings and split announcement.>> Exactly my point. I went over the charts looking back several years for some of my favorite stocks (DELL, MSFT, CSCO, etc) to look at what regular events (like earnings announcements) caused the stock to move, in which direction, how far ahead, etc. I had expected to see big pre-earnings run-ups, and big post-earnings drops. I found it's not that simple at all. Cisco, for example, does almost the exact opposite, falling very often right before announcements. Dell was extremely hard to predict. MSFT proved easiest to predict, which helped me buy and sell at pretty much correct moments around their most recent earnings announcement. For Dell, it seems to me that people are always hopeful of excellent earnings but keep worrying that this will be the time CPQ's price cuts catch up to them or whatever. You don't have that kind of earnings worry with MSFT. Logos

To: Dell-icious who wrote (58287)	8/14/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: JRI	Respond to of 176387

Friday's IBD says that some of the largest, most successful mutual funds were buying up Dell's stock in recent days (they also list Lu and Cisco, among others)....Also, IBD summarizes Dell's recent move as a 4 week "basing pattern" after a run-up from 77-118 1/4...and to expect higher high's Friday's Wall Street Journal summarizes CompUsa quarterly results, and quotes CEO Halpin as saying that Average Sales Prices have "stabilized"... Sorry, don't have any URL's.... Patience to all longs....you will be rewarded..