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To: Blitz who wrote (1)	1/26/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 111

How about $1,000 (that's ONE thousand dollars) worth of DELL in January of 1990? You figure it's worth today, then shake your head, and ask yourself where your brain was then -- by the way, you can do the same thing with many, many tech stocks. That $1,000 would have bought something like 10,000 shares (if my drugged eyes can see the chart correctly). There have been 7 (that's SEVEN) splits since then. I don't know if all splits were 1-2, but if they were then: 10,000 - 20,000 - 40,000 - 80,000 - 160,000 - 320,000 - 640,000 - 1,280,000 (that's ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND) SHARES. That's SHARES, not dollars!!!! I remain, SOROS (missed the easy money) ps Have I done something terribly wrong in this quick little figuring? I am on medication right now, so I could be hallucinating. pps Someone please tell me a stock under $5 that is going to split SEVEN times in the next eight years.

To: Blitz who wrote (1)	1/27/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: caly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 111

I languished with KANA from 1.00 down to .04, averaging down as I went. I sold all 5000 shares of it when I hit my breakeven point of 3/8ths last week. Oh the pain...

To: Blitz who wrote (1)	2/25/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Blitz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 111

Blitz let me tell you a story of greed, Golden Rule buy at nine watchrun to 13 now .3 Bema bought at 8 ran to 12 now at one I have probably picked far more winners then losers but have gotten greedy and ended up with far more losers. You think that I would be happy with a 33 % profit in less then a week but nooooooo I want yahoo I want Ebay. What I got was Bro-x Bought 1.88 watched run to 2.37 and well you probably no the rest of the story. Greed is not Good. That is my story exactly, I sometimes catch some real gems, I get in, I am up a good amount, and then I watch my profits turn into a loss. If I traded shrewdly, and had no emotions, I'd probably be retired by now LOL I made a pact with the people in my office (since starting my job there, I have gotten them hooked on trading, my office is like a trading floor :)) Anyway, after we all watched our ALFN profits "disappear", we made a rule, the next time and thereafter, sell at least some (or all, and get back in later) when we are up. We have a buddy system in place, if one doesn't want to sell, we all gang up on him and MAKE him sell! Cheers!