News reports over the last two weeks show that online bill payment should take off in the first half of the year 2000. As the market leader, Checkfree is the best positioned to take advantage of this growing market. As the result of the continuous proliferation of viruses on the Internet, more and more corporations are looking at Network Associates for solutions. Also, the growing euphoria of expectations concerning a booming holiday e-shopping season helped investors continue buying the stock. The single most efficient way to make money off of stocks is to be patient and look for bargains.
Investors sometimes overreact and oversell good companies, who are experiencing temporary hiccups .
Of course in Apple's case, they were losing truck loads of money, but in the end, someone would have bought out the company, even if only for the Apple brand name. Oracle is completely in tune with the Internet related applications needed to succeed, and is at half its price of 3 months before. Once the panic subsided, the price started rebounding. Looking back now, everyone can say, of course, it was going to bounce back . But a hammered stock price isn't an automatic criterion for an investor to get aboard.