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To: Duker who wrote (26847)	12/3/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Re: <<I would argue that it is sometimes better to be the last to know some of this stuff ... as long as you are not a trader and maintain a rational discipline with an eye on the long term>> I have a small portion of my portfolio set aside for trading, mostly for entertainment, I guess, because the market keeps teaching me over and over that it is more lucrative to play the long-term trends in this sector. The problem is that in order for short term trading to work better than buy-and-hold, you have to be able to buy the stock back cheaper than you sold it for. When we get these gargantuan moves like we are having now, which are really unpredictable as to timing, it becomes impossible to get back in while still meeting that condition. In other words, how do you buy on weakness when there ain't no weakness?