[wtc911]

Yep, but some of us lived by the "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" creed and took our profits without kicking ourselves when it went higher. Not everytime, but enough to upgrade the domicile and pay off a semester or two.

[ken5050]

I had a lot of clients who hated the idea of paying a "s**tload" of taxes just to protect the "downside" ..Sounds like you, and Ihappily took profits and got out...I remember writing here 3 years ago that the whole thing was gonna implode.. I was excoriated..I've been mostly in cash since late 99, got out when the Dow was about 9000, but 99.9% of those here wrote that I was an idiot..