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To: Thean who wrote (2682)	9/8/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: drsvelte	Respond to of 14427

Thean and all: It's pretty much a do nothing market for me as well. Shorted AMZN and CATP, but didn't jump long on the three longs I mentioned last nite. In retrospect, I should have 'cause NEON and SUT were up nicely. Ah well. I found this somewhat of an unusual rally. It just did not seem to have real steam behind it, although volume was high ( but not real high). Right now Globex S & P is down and the Nikkei is down although HK is up. Right now, I don't think the open will be up. I am gradually moving toward LT's perspective. This will not end in a nice soft landing. Too much is haywire.

To: Thean who wrote (2682)	9/8/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Alski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14427

Thean, I'm still around, been in "do-nothing-when-in-doubt" mode for awhile now; and spending too much time fixing other people's computers. It seems it's not just the market that's been going down lately! Thanx for asking. We "talked" some time ago about how I liked PEO's weekly chart as a bogey for the OSX because the stochs were so easy to read. With my "kindergarten TA skills" it looks like the stochs are calling to back up the truck. It's got a way to go to even get to the upper BB which, in the past, would have indicated the OSX was going to surf up. I don't know how to factor in that it's so far below the old support uptrend line though. Of course, the wacko market doesn't do much for my trust in bullish TA readings right now either. Care to post another TA lesson on PEO's chart? 207.95.154.130 On the computer topic, how's the shopping going? If you're willing to give up a wee bit of performance you can get a 100MHz bus machine with a 350MHz PII, 64M RAM, 8.4G HD, top quality video, and decent sound (wave table but not surround) for about $1.5K~$1.8K now. I hope I didn't scare you off with my $3K dream machine! I note that a lot of the top end machines come with 128K RAM which would be good for NT, but I don't have any experience with Win98 yet so I don't really know if 128K is needed or if 64K is enough. Any other geeks out there know the ins, outs, and RAMs on Win98? Alski

To: Thean who wrote (2682)	9/9/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Alski	Respond to of 14427

Thean, Do you still lurk over at SD? You gotta check out the Dogmeister's poetry. 206.253.217.14 Alski

To: Thean who wrote (2682)	9/9/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Timelord	Respond to of 14427

O/T Hi Thean, I'm still alive & kicking. I found I was trading too much trying to repair my damaged portfolio (mostly O & G), and as is to be expected under those conditions, I was doing a poor job of it. I thought I may be turning into a junkie rather than a trader, so I needed to stop and re-discipline. Used my vacation in July to "cold turkey" for a while. Turns out its not a problem, but I'm being cautious and trying to learn some strategy first. Right now my only open trades from this year are that evil tower company short, which is doing quite nicely, and a small short in SRCM. The other problem (and bw, I can relate to your post several weeks ago), is that every time I start talking up a stock to someone, it seems to go to hell shortly after. I'm a little gun shy about recommending stocks right now, thank you very much <g>. My classic, I think, is the Lexington Troika Russia Fund to my stepfather, when it was showing 40%+ returns last year. We won't talk about what happened there...<g> Thanks for checking up on me <g>. Alex