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To: Smart Investor who wrote (13468)1/24/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: Cyrus  Respond to of 13594
 
Which article was that? It would be good for you if it happened, but my system says nah!



To: Smart Investor who wrote (13468)1/24/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: musea  Respond to of 13594
 
Smart,

A contrarian would say that because of the way people think (herd mentality) and because of lead times for articles (can be long), the time to buy is when all the negative articles hit the street. Of course, contrarians are not always right, either...

I tend to think that most of the 'net stocks trade more on sentiment than anything else. But regardless of negative sentiment, I would be surprised to see AOL under $100. I will keep my shares and add to them if that happens.

-musea



To: Smart Investor who wrote (13468)1/24/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: zalesky  Respond to of 13594
 
To S Investor: No problem. The pre-AOL runup will take
it into the upper 140 where I"ll dump it and then get
back in at a later(and hopefully) a lower price. My
idea of long term in the internet stocks is about a
week or two. You've got to know when to hold em and
when to...



To: Smart Investor who wrote (13468)1/24/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: Labrador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13594
 
To listen to Barrons in a vacuum is a real mistake. I still remember when they printed the bullish article on Tejon Ranch. It went up to $40 within 3 days. I shorted that one down to $28, and now it sits again near $20.