Forum Archive Index - September 2000

[Brian Gale <brigale@i4free.co.nz>]

At 19:11 04-09-00 +0000, you wrote:

> Yes, but if you continue to hold the share,
> the loss is *also* real.

Sorry Snoopy I don't follow your logic.  The loss only becomes a
real monetary loss when you sell.

> Not the only way at all!  You can
> ride the volatility wave, and wait 
> for the share you are already invested in to go up in price
> again.   
> If you are a long term investor and did your homework properly in the
> first place you will indeed do just this.   You might even buy
> more 
> in any short term periods of weakness.
>  

I thought this is what I was saying.  I can't have made myself clear
to you.
BG