31.   In recent months, large stocks have performed much better than small ones.

32.   In that case, the way stocks perform give the inverse indication to more standard, longer averages.

33.   Investors are also finding that smaller, lesser-known tech stocks performed well in the third quarter.

34.   It will protect their portfolios on the downside while allowing them a theoretically unlimited upside if stocks perform well.

35.   Lloyd said some gold stocks should have performed better than they did today because their immediate profits are protected by forward gold sales.

36.   Last year stocks performed miserably.

37.   Many strategist scoff at seasonality, or the idea that stocks perform in certain recurring patterns.

38.   New York area stocks performed much like broader national indexes, making modest gains a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates.

39.   Of course, these investors could justify their new online hyperactivity if their replacement stocks performed better than their old ones, as they generally did before the switch.

40.   Over time many technology stocks will perform splendidly and investors want to benefit from that performance.