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Strategies & Market Trends : Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (3381)	9/29/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18998

(Maybe this is part of the game. Make the people confusing it with a better known name.) About two years ago an acquaintance of mine asked me which stocks were the strongest for his retirement plan. I told him to take a look at DELL and CSCO, neglecting to mention the symbols and instead referring to the stocks only by name. A few days later he said he was going to put in his orders and made a comment about future prospects of the timber and grocery industries. All I could say was "Huh?" Turns out he thought the NASDAQ was the same as OTC:BB and only wanted information on "quality NYSE stocks." His broker had sent him reports on Deltec (DEL) and Sysco (SYY). When I last talked to him, he'd bought KO and DIS. RS