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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. P. who wrote (38022)	3/7/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 94695

I understand what you are saying here. Playing the shorter term in some senses more risky. It does require a very different approach to the market that many simply are not able to execute well. Heck, on my first short term trade that I made a while ago, I lost $20,000. This is after a successful history of %35 returns in the market as a long term trader. But still this trade was invaluable in waking me up. I consider it my "tuition" to the college of the Marketplace. I find the current market not very suitable to long term investors unless the are investing for a period of several years or more in the market. This is what had me as an investor of 6 to 9 months duration turn to the shorter term. But this requires allot of time and effort on my part. The long term sometimes does look attractive to me. Bob Graham