Charles Pradilla Quotations

We're not going to see a significant upside until we get a clearer sense of how companies make their money and how it is accounted for.

There are these little bursts of good news in the tech area.

More and more strategists are of the opinion that the Fed may be completely through.

We are finally starting to come to those stocks that haven't given up ground yet. This is the first time that these stocks that are priced for perfection have shown some imperfections.

I think the market is struggling from the Enron affair.

I think we are in a correction that was way overdue. There has been tremendous complacency by strategists about the Asia problem and even up until last week everyone was raising their targets. The Asia problem is real.

I think there's a feeling that the Fed's actions are going to work. So it's not if, it's when.

We are in a healing process which will take a couple of months.

Both the economy and profits are going to turn.

We've had a real rally. Whether we go back and test the lows again, that's really the question.

With scandal-ridden capital markets, a mediocre recovery and still high valuations, a lengthy bottoming and healing period is needed before we get a substantial upturn in equities.

Boeing is a turnaround. They've taken care of a lot of glitches and now both the commercial and defense area is looking awfully good. Nortel is just knocking them dead in both wireless and fiber optics. They are both very important areas. And all three companies represent leaders in their particular industries.

Anybody with a long horizon has to be in the Internet one way or the other. The one they would pick which I would reiterate is America Online ( AOL ). It is a real company, It has real earnings, it sure ain't cheap, but I think that 21 million subscribers will pay off down the road.

Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues estimates ... and that hurts the entire tech sector.

The bottoming process is going to take an awfully long time. There's been absolute decimation for many, many stocks, and there are many nervous shorts out there so you don't need much to spark a fairly vigorous move.

This is a very anemic recovery. It has a lot of problems with it, and we don't have dirt-cheap valuations. I firmly believe the bear market is over, but this is not going to be a roaring bull market, and I think we're going to see a lot of interruptions and halting and starting before we get a consistently better market.

If you are a competitive investor, you've got to assume the Fed will succeed in re-igniting the economy.