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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marketbrief.com who wrote (6881)	6/5/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

who cares about a temporary loss of a third of its price, when one is still up more than 1000% with this stock? only a short term speculator like you. if you're an investor, you know volatility and fluctuation are the name of the game, and you have to be strong and ride it out in order to reap the HUGE rewards at the end of the road, and not a few points per week (or lose them). if you are going to run for the hills because there was a correction in the general market (not in EGRP alone, in case you didn't notice), you would never hold anything "forever", as Warren Buffett recommends. hey, i am a daytrader and position trader myself too, it's fun, but i have a core portfolio which i NEVER touch, and strange as it may seem, i made more from that core portfolio than from my daytrading activities. it's funny, this stock is up more than 150% this year alone, and you talk as if it were a loser...

To: marketbrief.com who wrote (6881)	6/5/1999 10:42:00 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

Marketbrief--If you're simply interested in trying to "get an idea what recent buyers are thinking," then all you need do is ask. If, on the other hand, you want to state that the analysts who have recommended ETrade are "third-tier shills"--which they clearly are not--and imply that ETrade somehow mysteriously persuaded them to recommend its stock--which is patently ridiculous on the face of it--then you're not going to get a very friendly reception, nor should you expect one. As I said earlier, there is no reason that shorts shouldn't be welcome here--if you're an honest short and want to get into a conversation about EGRP, I'd love to have one with you. Both of us might learn something. We've had good exchanges on this thread between shorts and/or skeptics in the past, and I hope we have them in the future. However, slammers who make ridiculous posts are not going to be welcomed by most of the folks here, pure and simple. Your second to last sentence illustrates my point: I have* been amused by the flurry of bullish "news," upgrades, reiterations, and earnings revisions while EGRP has lost a third of its price in the last few weeks.* You put news in quotes, implying that the releases that ETrade has made are not news. Excuse me, buying Telbank isn't news enough for you, it's "news?" What is amusing about the fact that ETrade has been upgraded by numerous analysts? Care to explain? I didn't think so. "Reiterations?" What do you mean by that? "Earnings revisions?" What are you talking about? Let's face facts, Marketbrief, you're a slammer, pure and simple. If you want to make the case against E*Trade, then make it. This factless innuendo bullshit of yours is ridiculous.