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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (57638)	4/27/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Thanx Mike; That clears tAht up in my mind, the paired trade is not as good as it looks on a long term chart , but it's still OK. Drops the average from 16% a year to about 15% over the last 3 yrs. I'm not really in to hold long term any way but just to set up and have an edge until some mo mo lets me leg out of one side; ie to be ahead with an edge when some real momentum hits. However if one is not using their margin, even after margin rates this should make 10% per yr if it's put in the margin account , or so it looks to me. I mostly just work out of my cash account, except for the shorts but if I may ask;; when I happen to know ahead taht I'm going to Day trade an issue, and if I use the margin account , will they debit me with a margin rate, ( in and out the same day ) ? I'v not tried that yet, guess I ought to do one and see <G> Jim PS BTW I'm not much into picking stocks nowdays but just ran across HUM , which seems to be beat down below her cash on hand, I'v had a good bit of luck in the past buying cash at a discount ( when I can find it ) if you have time take a look.