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To: John Chapman who wrote (43263)	6/5/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Jenna	Respond to of 120523

Indivi..Invest.. Seen it except that our list comes out 4 days before and includes about 5 times as many plays. The kid doesn't tell you of the dangers of holding through earnings, they call a stock a 'buy' before earnings and that is very dangerous. Obviously he hasn't been doing this very long. If had had he'd know even if a company beats earnings it is not necessarily a 'buy'.. When is it a buy? When the market is down 100 points? A day before? 2 days? 3 days? They don't make it clear if you should hold the thing through earnings. They just 'guess' if the company will beat estimates, and by how many cents like a poker stake. And if ZQK does beat estimates they won't say it could be down because it might be overextended etc. etc. He never use technical analysis for determining exits/entries. The kid called TAGS a buy and it was down quite a bit even though it beat earnings. The kid called YUM a buy and it too was down quite a bit. The kid never discusses if the stock is oversold/overbought or not. Then it takes him a full week after earnings come out to let you know if the stock is a buy or not..once again. I just hope "the kid" does more checking than his column before he himself buys his picks. But its a nice column.. The rest of the magazine is even better.