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To: Andrew Danielson who wrote (18448)	9/24/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

When you're overly conservative and put your money in treasury bonds forever, you're not "losing" any concrete money. However, while the stock market continues with its superior gains long-term as you sit on the sidelines being "safe", you have not only compromised your future buying power but have also lost out on huge gains. You have exaggerated the meaning of consevative into a caricature and then shoot it down. If we do the same to your argument of missed-oportunity cost, you would see that no matter how successful as an investor you are, you are still underpeforming. Say, I'm fairly confident that if you had devoted your wits to organized crime you would be a drug-baron billionarie by now. The point is that IMHO, an investor should be conservative in its estimates within reason.