typical wavoid tactic please answer my questions first & thereafter i will gladly give you the return courtesy of an answer to your subsequent question. 1) how did you know "bad news" was coming? 2) what was your advance source of that "bad news"? 3) why in the world did you buy back the position, AND at a higher price than you sold (if i recall correctly)?!? <img src=http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/comics/Calvin_and_Hobbes/animated/chani083.gif>