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Non-Tech : NIFTY NINE IN NINETY NINE PLUS ONE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (86)	1/7/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 613

Terrific Dude. I guess my contest portfolio will suffer today, I've been trying to reduce my ariaw's for the last week (as time runs out on these baby's I'd rather just have aria). I got in these goofy things from 3/16ths to as high as 3/8ths last fall...most at 1/4. I've gotten rid of half of them so far...but today, when the bid was 3/16ths I mistakenly entered a market order. Oh you can bet the other MM grabbed those. And down to 1/8ths the bid went. Whoops! Only a couple hundred dollar mistake, but those mistakes add up. And now my fake portfolio which has a huge number of ariaw is going to take a hit, heh heh. (fyi ariaw expire in May...most likely worthless, and I should really have not put them in the contest) if I could do it over again I'd have put in gztc or xoma--which I own now.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (86)	1/7/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: RCMac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 613

>>Is everyone ready to "throw in the towel". Take a look at my NXTL<< TD, Nice pick on NXTL (which I looked at a while back and liked, but never got around to pulling the trigger), but it may be a little early to throw towels. AXPH (picked by at least two of us) is up 47%, my CORR is doing nicely although it fell back today and is up only about 10%, as is my SEPR and the overall portfolio. So I think I'll hang onto my towel for a while. You earlier asked me if I know when ASTM might release data on its sickle-cell trial. I hadn't answered since I don't yet know, but I will try to find out. I will visit ASTM at some point, after some more DD, as it is a local Ann Arbor company. (I probably know less about ASTM than any of the other picks on my list, but intend to remedy this when a few spare hours present themselves.) One minor matter of bookkeeping. In my original post my arithmetic or my typing stumbled over CHIR. The hypothetical $10,000 should buy 408 CHIR at 24.5, not 405 as I indicated. (This is not a changed pick, just correction of a typo; I'm happy with my original ten.) As for wine. It seems premature to pick, but since you asked and others have named their hoped-for prize, I would favor an Italian red of some sort: Rosso di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a nice Chianti Classico, somesuch. Cheers, RCM