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Re: garrett800ca post# 298

Tuesday, 12/18/2007 2:10:18 PM

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:10:18 PM

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Yes Garrett, but this is only 1 of a couple OTC's I own. My normal holdings are larger caps but with current market conditions, MANY once trusted larger cap issues have lost 90% or even more in the last few months and even halted dividends now too amid a lot of federal investigations and such going on.

Wellcare Health (WCG) is one example losing 90% value in 4 days time because FBI raided their corp HQ after the Directors were found to have made mysterious large personal stock sales and an employee blew a whistle on false reportings to SEC and the stock fell from like $126.00/share to $27.00 range in a few days! Now many lawsuits filed, many not having any Christmas this year, etc.

Other major caps are banks which have lost 50% or higher share values as well as many mortgage type stocks even, major housing developers' stocks and so many more now pummelled to a fraction of what they were a few months ago...

So to say small caps are riskier does not apply today as everything is different and we are heading into rougher times economically. In my opinion, many small cap or OTC's have now become less risky than the traditional larger cap issues in lieu of what has been going on since August. What I have seen in my 25 years of investing, is what is going on never occured before nor does logic make sense in the markets.

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