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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (14024)	5/15/1999 7:00:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Monty you are not alone, we all pay our dues <GGG> "It was really quite commical until I tried to catch INTC because I said "this time it is for real". Lost 3/16 before I figured out I had been suckered also. VBG." Same happen to me with QQQ lost there some after having a nice gain for entering short into Friday. Well my little loss was well deserved as it was a pure "guts feeling" trade. We need to penetrated Friday's lows to have this thing rolling. The high open interest in index puts may negate a correction next week. will see. BWDIK Haim

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (14024)	5/15/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: KM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

I tried shorting on those fake rallies and it worked pretty well.

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (14024)	5/16/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

From my Chicken page - Day Traders - Market speculation - Most recent example of irrational stock buying is IBM. Louis Gerstner of IBM started touting his company as an Internet play - net result the stock went from $220 to $245 for no other reason than speculation. IBM's market capitalization grew by $25 billion just for a nice story and prep talk ?? - there were no new financial facts or better earnings prediction JUST SPECULATION!! Those $25 billion in added valuation can account for several countries GDP or about 5 to 6 weeks of money flow into the US mutual funds. To make some sense of the irrational market behavior - Poland with a population of 38 million has a yearly budget of $34 billion and national debt of $43 billion. Austria with a $21,000 per capita GDP has a national debt of $30 billion similar to Belgium national debt of $31 billion and Denmark's national debt of of $44 billion (sources the CIA World Fact Book). Does their government "prep talk" eliminate their outstanding debt in two days??? Well I do not think so. BWDIK Haim bway.net