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To: BGR who wrote (60108)	5/21/1999 1:26:00 AM
From: Gerald F Bunch	Respond to of 132070

BGR "The reason not to play the fool's game, of course, is that numerous studies show that very few market timing professionals actually make a higher return than buying and holding market indexes " I'm not from "misery", but shome "PLEASE" Best Regards GB

To: BGR who wrote (60108)	5/21/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

BGR, The studies, of course, do not include the best players, so they are kind of bogus. You will never see The Bass Brothers, for example, allowing anyone to study their trading calls. <g> I rarely if ever use leverage. Double dollar cost averaging is fairly simple for monthly buyers. You buy a stock fund and a money fund. If the stock fund is down next month, you put your entire contribution into it. If it is up, you put your entire contribution into the money fund. If it is down two months in a row, you take one months contribution out of the money fund and add it to this month's. You would have bought extra shares at the bottom last year and be saving for a rainy day at the manic top now. It even works with brain dead indices. <g>