Date:    03/21/2000  9:29 PM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD

Definitely favor any proposal that levels the playing field for individual 
investors. Many investors today are doing their own research - including 
attending conference calls, reading news releases, and analyzing SEC filings. 
It's frustrating as Hell to look at stock price chart and see clearly that 
the information in the news release or conference call was being traded on 
the days before the public release. It happens all the time, and it stinks! 
Arguments by the SIA that FD would have a curtail the flow of information 
from the companies to the public miss the point. If the 'Flow of information' 
is harnessed such that all the profit energy is drained out of the 
information by the time it reaches public investors, then it's pretty clear 
that to the extent that this occurs, the public is playing in a rigged game - 
a game rigged against the public.
Play poker with me for real money and let me know the next card coming up and 
I'll eat your lunch the way  those with priveledged access to selective 
disclosure are often able to in the markets today.
     
Thanks to Chairman Levitt for taking steps the address this inequity. 
Robert Rudd
Private Investor