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To: paul richards who wrote (6222)	1/7/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: bc_mack	Respond to of 6318

Now, which losers are you referring to? Were those the losers who bought this $25 stock a few months ago at $16 when you said the stock was going to single digits?

To: paul richards who wrote (6222)	1/7/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6318

Bitter one, Care to explain how all of us who accumulated this stock over the last 18 months are losers?? Can you do the math?? When you were whining and spreading misinformation, we were buying shares in the low teens, mid teens, and twenties. If doubling my money in a year is losing, then I want to lose every year <ggg>. The sweetest part is that my gain came at the expense of losers like you and your fellow shorts who were spewing negative crap the whole time I was raking in your money. Thanks again and better luck next time. FF

To: paul richards who wrote (6222)	1/8/1999 7:04:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6318

I feel much better now. Being a dim-witted psuedo-investor is definitely a step up from being a mindless dick, or even a dumb ass. Since I have invested real dollars in the stock market, and not Monopoly money, I suppose that "psuedo-investor" means that I'm am amateur, as opposed to a professional. Just a wanna-be investor throwing my money cluelessly into the market, unlike the experienced professional investors who expertly analyze the world financial markets, a company's balance sheet, and who utilize the myriad opportunities of hedging, shorting, buying and putting options, derivatives, etc. to turn the market to their advantage... and somehow still regularly manage to lose a few billion in currency trading or overlook an impending collapse, requiring a bail-out. But here I am, money in hand, jumping up and down wanting to be a real investor when I grow up, wanting to play with the big boys, the professionals. Well, actually, sarcasm aside for the moment, yeah, I am an amateur. I've made some bad investments along the way, and some good ones. Altogether, I would have done better to have put that money in a good mutual fund over the last 10 years. This is 20-20 hindsight. In any case, I wanted to and still want to make my own decisions with regard to which stocks to invest in, rather than leaving everything to the pros. That's the reason this web site exists, as is stated in the "mission statement" on the welcome page. One thing is clear - just like in Vegas, the house always has an edge, the house in this case being the market makers, professional stock brokers, the traders on the exchanges, and even the officers of individual companies. This adds an extra challenge for the amateurs, which they accept. But I have heeded the advice of professionals and stayed away from the more risky types of investing, such as shorting and buying and selling options and buying on the margin. I just buy and sell stocks with the money that I actually have. Just beginners luck, I guess, that my investment in BROD, which was at 17, was turned for me into 0.8 TLC which at a current price of 25 equates to 25 x 0.8 = 20, or a gain of about 17% if I bail now (considering only the effect of TLC, not what I paid for the BROD which is unrelated to TLC). Whereas a professional like you has done... what? Nobody really knows. But since you are laughing all the way, like in Jingle Bells, you must have made a huge profit, so that you can only have pity on the rest of us with our small profits.