The Options Box

[Koikaze]

re: "I hope that you and your daughter are doing well"

Thanks, Bob. It's only today that I was thinking what a wonderful teacher I am. I mean, c'mon, after all, how often does one get to hear a REAL bear growl? And, I had the wit to get her involved in time to see the whole thing, up close and personal, like. With a dad like me, she'll never need an enemy!

To answer your question, I'd have to say we're black and blue ... and they don't make a salve for this kind of ache. Someone took a 16-pound mall (or is it "maul"? You know, the one you drive fence-posts with.) to a stock I had great confidence in. Now it's the fence-post ... totally driven into the mud. Oh, the sadness ...

A healthy (or ought I say unhealthy) slide tomorrow won't be a huge surprise. Last week's tumble probably ate up a ton of margin. That's the kind of thing that teaches ALL the elements of panic ... and leaves a lot of folks suffering severely. We're not quite tapped out, yet, and I'm trying to figure which little bits will make the tastiest morsels when things settle down a bit. Nothing rash, you understand, just a bit here and a bit there.

Fred