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To: Pruguy who wrote (12569)	12/19/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: sakura	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Hi pruguy No offence. When did you buy CS? I just checked your favorite. Just curious Diversification. you got a point!!!!!!

To: Pruguy who wrote (12569)	12/20/1998 1:07:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 13594

you do not have the necessary training or knowledge and to practice as an investment advisor without the proper licenses is a violation of law. Oh, really? If some bureaucrat in Sacramento or Washington had given me a license, I would then be qualified to give out investment advice? Everybody on these boards is giving out investment advice, and getting it. Want to put us all in jail? If the old rules are outdated and your wisdom of three stocks is all that is needed for adequate diversification, why would you argue that 3 is better than 1...wouldn't it just be best to have all your money in your best pick I don't argue that 3 are better than one, It could be best to have all your money in one. That's up to you to decide. At the moment, I have four stocks I trust to go up,(AOL,CSCO,DELL,&MSFT). If two go up, and the others don't, I am ahead. I would like to have five, and be right on two, but that's not how it works out for me right now. Most people can't follow more tnan five, on a part-time basis, But that's up to them.

To: Pruguy who wrote (12569)	12/20/1998 2:17:00 AM
From: David Montgomery	Respond to of 13594

If you feel there is no chance of being wrong, than 1 pick is your best solution One (1) pick at a time. That's the way most people do it. Then you get diversified. to practice as an investment advisor without the proper licenses is a violation of law It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Edison invented a light bulb first. He wasn't thinking about phonograph records or turbine generators. If a bureaucrat got involved, there would be too many unknowns to invent a light bulb. I guess Edison should have been given a light bulb invention license by a bureaucrat. Or was it illegal to invent the light bulb?

To: Pruguy who wrote (12569)	12/20/1998 7:48:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

to practice as an investment advisor without the proper licenses is a violation of law Hey, "Pruguy", it just occurred to me, do you make a living peddling for Prudential Insurance? If so, I wouldn't run around these boards posting "flames" of other peoples investment opinions, and sending them "ad hominen" E mail. Prudential started off selling high cost "Industrial" whole life insurance to poor people, then graduated in the 80's to ripping off people with real estate schemes. After almost going under paying back the people they defrauded, they now peddle high cost term and whole life insurance and mediocre Mutual Funds.

To: Pruguy who wrote (12569)	12/20/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 13594

"To practice as an investment advisor without the proper licenses is a violation of law." Are you a lawyer? It looks like you're giving legal advice. PW.