**cba and sun the banks sought after**, page-2

On Monday I expect to have appearing the trading account 489 CBA bought in 1996/97 from CBA3 (what was then a minimum parcel of 300 at $6 installment receipt + $4.50 final payment) including the full history of dividend re-investment up to now (the stuff of dreams - but hey, all our CBA1 bought at $5.40 in 1991 were sadly sold years back).

Keen to redirect the funds into an assortment of mostly small caps I had planned to sell all these CBA immediately on receipt but now note the huge volume and price jump in CBA today. Perhaps my thinking is flawed. I had thought the banks were done. I thought banks had made their huge leap forward over the past decade from technology implementation and fee escalation and that was it for banks for a long time to come.

Perhaps a stop loss at $33.25 (in the gap) with a triggered sell at $33.20 is in oder. Any opinions?