I know little-to-nothing about stock trading. Can someone please give me the "Dummie's" version of

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37. Thanks much. I don't know where I got "a few weeks" from, probably that came from some kind

of unrelated option or another that I read about.

Yes, I remember ENRON. I used to work for an electric utility (Northern States Power, now Xcel), but that was before the wild west craziness in the energy sector that culminated with ENRON's collapse.

The brother of my boss was involved in starting NRG, a spinoff from NSP and a similar company to ENRON in many ways. Prior to the spinoff, the NRG unit dragged NSP's stock price down to a ridiculously low level, so I bought a whole bunch, doubled my money in a couple of days, and sold. (The only individual stock I ever bought other than automatically thru the ESOP. Wish I had held on for a lot longer).