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marcos

01/28/03 4:27 PM

#86 RE: longjonsilver #85

That's a personal decision, how much a person trades and how much they just pick em and hold ... with something like this, i do both, sort of half and half .... for example xcl, there has been no time in five years when i didn't hold shares, yet from the start and right on through i've tried to catch the tops of swings, get some paper off, so i can pick it back up cheaper .... and been lucky with it, so far, thusly building the keeper position larger each time ... same with ngt, though it's only been a year and a half, i traded off quite a few last spring, got them back cheaper, then added even more late last year ..... a decent chunk of them are for trading, the rest for keeping .... the newco is going to have a tradeable peak in late spring somewhere between 2.50 and 4.00, i think, long as gold doesn't do a real tankeroo, so i'll off some then ... not all though, and the cash will go right back on the bid, looking for some doofus dazed by summer heat to dump his shares into thin bids

One thing is, i find that since getting on the net with instant online trading and all, it's just about impossible to evade the compulsion to press the little buy/sell buttons ..... also, a person has more information of all sorts, along with charts which really make a difference .... so it's inevitable i think, and arguably rational, to do some trading .... one thing against trading, is it speeds up how fast you have to pay taxes on the net proceeds .... but the main value imho, is that it's a most entertaining and relatively harmless video game for us wrinklers

Sinclair is doing a 'call yer certs' scameroo? ... i hadn't heard ... such an exhortation would lower my opinion of the man, fwiw ... that's a move done by sleazy bulletin board promotions ... 'call yer certs', lol, whenever i hear that i think of hog-calling contests, soooooeee pigpigpig etc, because in spanish the word cerdo corresponds to the english 'hog'