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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (22638)	5/12/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Toy, you said: <<MSFT has been underperforming for a few months now. It has not just started to underperform.>> and: <<Take a look at the MSFt chart and tell me if MSFT has only recently been a dud.>> I keep telling you not to discuss MSFT shareprice, or performance as an investment. That is based on how very bad your predictions are. What I didn't realize however, is that you are just as bad remembering PAST performance. Seems so easy. Yet you cannot even manage this. FYI, on April 9, MSFT hit post-split 95 intraday, and closed above 95. Today is May 12 - that's about a month and 3 days. At that point last year, (April 9, 1998) MSFT was at 44.5 (split adjusted). That means, it appreciated over 100%. If that is not fast enough, you can go back to October of 98, when the market broke down, and most stocks sold off - on Oct 8, 98 it stood at 45 - so in 6 months (April 9, 99), it appreciated OVER 100%. So, how does that make MSFT UNDERPERFORM for "a few months now". A few months - 6 exactly, over 100% appreciation. That's underperforming? Yes, it sold off. But it's been barely over 1 month since it's all time high - how is that "a few months" of "underperformance". Maybe you should take your own advice and "look at the MSFT chart" - and see if it's been a "dud" for "a few months". Boy, at least with looking into the future, one can say you are inept. But not to be capable of READING a chart of the PAST??? Toy, from now on, you should not only refrain from talking about MSFT's future price, but the past price as well. BTW, I have taken note of your post, and I'll make sure to trott it out with a url, next to your other infamous "under $50 and stay there for a long time" howler. I won't let you forget this one either. Regards, Morgan