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Technology Stocks : Winstar Comm. (WCII) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pamela Murray who wrote (8859)	10/22/1998 1:56:00 PM
From: Randall Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

<<I wonder when all is said and done,if you will end up with as much money on your trades as some on this thread will have from being long on Win five years from now?>> 5 YEARS????? I have entered the realm of cult stocks. Given the rate at which techonology is changing, how can any tech investor premeditate owning a non-dominant techonology stock for 5 years? It is equally possible Robet's % return on his wcii trades is already higher than any longs here will have five years from now if anyone actually holds that long.

To: Pamela Murray who wrote (8859)	10/22/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Robet Butkus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12468

Well Pam, I am so far ahead now that it doesn't matter. Missing the gap today is not something I fret over. In the next five years there will be many other opps here for sure. Listen, the market could really crap out along the way again, and WCII will trader lower for sure. It is all perception, and nothing more.

To: Pamela Murray who wrote (8859)	10/22/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: LzzrdKing	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12468

<<Robet, Cute, dicktionary. I wonder when all is said and done,if you will end up with as much money on your trades as some on this thread will have from being long on Win five years from now? Hope we all are successful. Pam>> You are missing the point. Owning an issue involves risk. Every day you hold it is another day that bad news can come out or market conditions be such that your equity in the issue is reduced. I believe that Robet and I will have greater % returns on this issue than investors will, and with much smaller risk. For example, think about this. Robet had a 50% gain on this stock in a matter of days, when it went from about 10 to 20. I am too tired to look and see how many days it took but lets say 7 for the sake of argument. If I annualized that gain, it would be rather substantial, 50% times 52 weeks is 2,600%. Do you realize where WCII would have to go for you to come up with that type of gain? And now, being out of the issue, we attempt to find another stock that will provide a profit. I realize that trading is not for most, in fact it is for very few. Just trying to show you the other side of the argument. Take care.