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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 (433)	2/20/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: Brander	Respond to of 613

Mike is still kicking our behinds! Good job Mike. And thanks Dude for this fun contest. I'm still in my cautious mode. The market has much anxiety right now.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (433)	2/20/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Scott H. Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 613

Ouch! I've had two EPS shortfalls and accompanying downgrades, plus my developmental stage high tech "win huge or lose it all" suffered the death of a principle in a car crash. Wonder if Mike has a future in biotech portfolio management? Scott

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (433)	2/24/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 613

A humbling, but amusing experience: Last night at work as I got bored near the end of my shift, I posted a challenge on the "50% a month" thread. These guys were getting on my nerves suggesting that rapid trading can make you a ton of money. Anyway, I figured my stuff was up 5% yesterday, who knows, maybe a few things of mine are starting a run. So I post my current stocks etc and boy, was that bad karma. I see I'm down 5% today as all my stuff has ticked down to the bid...and in a few cases just some plain ol lousy weakness--in ariaw for instance. Anyway, my real stock account is at +15% for the year...and I wanted to point that out, cause it bothers me a bit that somehow my name is at the top of this contest list (or at least it was) and I am not doing half as good at this game as on paper. As long as I am here--I wanted to point out that it does look like the ariaw's are going to, in time, go to zero. My thought was that Ariad might extend the expiraton...but clearly there is selling going on...now 1/8th. I've got a couple grand in those in the real world...and I will say that after today, I'm not holding out much hope for an extension. So...the effect of those alone should take me down to 3rd or 4th place next time the results are tallied!