And even though his own company has soared via the Internet, with nearly a million readers a month visiting Motley Fool web sites, Forrest can imagine the momentum starting down one day and continuing down and downer. Indeed, serious magazines now openly call the Internet stock craze a crash waiting to happen. Investor belief in the Internet has driven up the demand for its stocks, thus driving up their prices. So we chatted up the day traders on Lynn Harvey's computer line. The market is always going to have stocks going up and stocks going down.
Timing is the key.
I just don't - I wouldn't let that happen. But, I mean, you might not be able to prevent that from happening. The way I trade, I would find that very difficult to do, in fact, next to impossible. The day trader we interviewed said she can't lose money because she gets out of positions so quickly. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.