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  Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:55 
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  Subject: [sharechat] WAM an interesting 
  example of changing sentiment
  
        Remember a few 
  months ago, WAM was at around 2.50.
  Interesting at the time were the differing 
  opinions.  I thought them a buy on instinct ie oversold
  Phedorus thought they were a buy when they went 
  into uptrend 2.47?
  and Peter gave us a highly detailed fundamental 
  report on why they were only worth
  2.20 !
  
          
  
     Adding to all this a big fund 
  manager was unloading shares as fast as possible.
  General sentiment seemed to be that competition 
  was rising and the loss of the auckland
  contract was detrimental.
           
  Now a few months later what do we find ? Shareprice rising over 3 
  dollars,
  all the brokers picking the stock as one of the 
  years star performers and suddenly
  once again WAM are back in favour.
   
        What does this all 
  tell us?   
  1. Sentiment changes rapidly
  2. Share prices fluctuate for no apparent 
  fundamental reason (company not changed anything)
  3. Brokers and fund managers move markets and are 
  fickle creatures
  4. Fundamental analysis is not guaranteed to pick 
  prices,  ie peters post
  5. T.A ignored all this and bought at a good 
  time
  6. Ignore brokers picks,  (probably 
  recommended all those they currently overweight in so further gains 
  unlikely)
   
   Nick