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To: stock bull who wrote (82960)	11/30/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Stock bull, It does fall into the area of creative accounting if it is used for anything other than legitimate business purposes. For example, insurance companies create reserve accounts for losses incurred but not reported ("INBR"), and manufacturing companies create reserves for bad debts. This kind of thing is legitimate if it is used based on historic or industry standards to avoid misrepresenting earnings. But when used to smooth earnings for a future period when shareholders might be irate is exactly the kind of underhanded nonsense that should elicit outraged from investors. TTFN, CTC

To: stock bull who wrote (82960)	11/30/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Don Martini	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

So what do you do when you're options are short And the stock drops like a stone And you lay in your bed and grab your gut And toss and turn and moan And LOD makes a 1,000% on options, he reported today And you mutter to yourself: "I only lost 80% today" You remember those sweet summer days before your NASDAK addictions When you were an innocent solvent man with a banker's interest predictions You realize it's not the market, or the Asian situation Or CNBC, or WXYZ or Merrill or Datex or inflation You're poverty's due to the idiot in you who'll understand numbers never And vow never again your money to spend in the market, no not ever But "One more for the road" you say, switching the SI thread You read all night till dawn's dim light, and your fears are finally dead. You've got it at last! Accomplished your task! Can't wait until tomorrow! To bet your money, this stock's a honey! You're riches will banish all sorrow! Would some fellow sufferer please supply the final verse? Dedicated to my fellow Addictees on SI Don Martini

To: stock bull who wrote (82960)	11/30/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

stockbull, is there anyway to come up timesales on a stocks for a given window of time period. i.e. i sold MALL at market at 9:34 this morning (first 4 mins). the stock gapped up this morning and was trading at 58.xx - 59.xx when i placed the market order. i got a confirmed sale 1.5 hrs later at 40. i never trade on internet, this is with a live broker on the phone. the stock was not in a locked market and was trading normally to the + side for a long time My brokerage firm is doing research and will be talking to the market makers. can i get trade info for that time period say from 9:34 to 9:40. the stock did not trade at 40 till 10am . this should be a good learning exercise. i only had 200 shares so it was not a big deal but i like to understand. thx for your help, i know u had this kind of info before.