friends. i'm just trying to make you money. my job isn't just to entertain but to teach and coach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. nobody, i repeat nobody likes to be disciplined. they don't like to be admonished and they don't like to follow the rules, i don't blame them. i was a ram bung courthouse kid myself. when i learned them, i spurn that because i didn't believe they could help or because they cut off my upside, even if they curbed the inevitable down side. the rules kept me from making a huge amount of money when things were going gang buster in order to keep me from losing big money when things went badly. >> the rules i'm discussing tonight keep you in the game

you make those mistakes. the rules protect against your own bad judgment. if you're going to make money using stocks because you just can't get much of return anywhere else these days, that's pretty much the case, you're doing to have to work harder with your money to do so. and that requires discipline. discipline because once you start buying and selling stocks, you can make more mistakes than if you just do nothing with your money. if you do nothing with your money, you have a whole lot of nothing to show for it. that's why we're doing a show on how to trade and invest responsibly to make your money work for you. how to tend it, how to make it grow, what kind of gardners of money tonight, how to keep it growing from active money management. it's a sin and a lot of you practice it. i want you to do it right. before we dig into the ways to make your money grow by being

hands on about it, i want to delve into a little psychology of stock ownership. one question i'm asking repeatedly, i go back and forth from the street, to "squawk on the street" and wall street or they ask me at jim cramer on twitter is, don't you worry about your stocks? now, it is true, i don't own any individual stocks i invest just for charity with all profits and dichbs given away to chartble causes. but believe me, i still worry as i want to be able to give as much money to charity as i can. plus i disclose everything i own and tell you explain what i'm going to do before i do is part of it. you bet i have concern. i can be down right embarrassing when i get it wrong. yep, i'm always worried about the trust stocks especially when they go down. i'm definitely worried when they go down when the market as a whole is going up, that's a sign

someone knows something that i don't know i better find out or i won't be able to take advantage of the weakness. that's the chief reason why i'm always bugging you about reading the news releases, the guidance and going to the web sites for more information. you can't be informed if you don't try to inform yourself. i know that those who don't know what they own and can't articulate what they own and don't know what a company makes or sale know why it will be going down either, they don't know whether to buy or sell into a big sell off. we're talkingng about psychology here. the psychology of the mind when all that homework doesn't pan out. believe me, it is frustrating. when we select a stock on the show the highlight we do a mass amount of work on it every single time. it is really difficult to see it go down, but there are plenty of times when there is, say,

there's plenty of times when there's popping by management and you don't know by the truth. i talk about press releases that make things sound much better than they are. who wants to start by saying we're pleased to that sales increased by 12%. it sounds good accept the analysts were looking for 20%. with that 12% you've got a hideous shortfall, or worse than that kind of puck ri, when you own a stock and someone out there knows the truth and you don't, maybe someone found out about them playing golf with executive, maybe some hedge funds played under the table to get the truth as we've time and time for years and years. even some ended up in jail for doing it. the insiders had the call, you didn't. there are also tops of time when you simply own too much stock, we call this being too long.

you are too long as a presentationals say, you can't buy any more stock on the way down you're so out of capital, or worse, or borrowing money to finance your portfolio, which i think is just a terrible idea. stocks aren't houses, you can't fall back and live them if you have a mortgage on them, they just get taken away by the margin nerds. so what do you do, how do you manage a portfolio under conditions where things go wrong with the stocks you own all the time and things go wrong in the market all the time, wholly a part of what's going on at the end of the dual companies in which you own shares. there are no magic bullets but i believe when in doubt, this one principle is key, discipline trumps conviction. memorize that term, discipline trumps conviction.

with those words for many years when i was managing money professionally to remind myself that things go wrong and you need to have a scheme to help you deal with those situations when things go wrong as they evidentblely do. yes, i put a discipline trumps conviction sign on my personal computer to remind me what to do in the stock market when things go wrong. one of my best forms of protection to recognize if you're not tough and you like all of your equally, you can't be flexible. you can't change up when things go wrong, that's bad, people. that's why i've come up with a system of ranking my stocks when things are good and times are plateauing and these are hedges against yourself for when things get tough. you know, when it's really calm out there, you can do good decision making. not all stocks are created equal, you circle the wagon, just like a wagon train going

around a good few stocks, buy them down to get a better basis or avrng price. why does this matter so much? we must expect corrections and declines as a matter of court. we must anticipate the days where we wake up and hear the good people saying the futures are down, they're down a great deal and the market looks to open down a half a percent or a down a percent, you've heard that so many times. we've learned so much over the years about which triggers correction on that too. the most important thing to have a game plan you know even when you've done all the homework discipline dictates you must assume there's something you don't know going on with individual stocks or that there's something happening in the world that's beyond the control of your acumen and you're being victimized by the event. my ranking system will get you through the chaotic, when all others fumbling and fretting and

desiting they can't take it any more and have to get out of dodge at the exact worst time. here is the bottom line, in order to be able to deal with the decline in your stocks or the stock market as a whole, you have to accept that something is wrong at the companies you own shares in that you might not know about or maybe there's something happening in the stock market you didn't foresee. therefore you must be ready with a game plan that can bell you out short term so that your money works for you and not against you at a time when you needs it most. frank in new york. >> jim, i understand why a company goes public to raise capital for various difference reasons, why would a company want to go private? >> this is a great question. they want because they think it's worth a lot more than what the stock market is paying for it. when that is typically because the owners of the company, the managers recognize, there's so

and buyers know. they take it private, make it look better and they tend to bring it public again. ann in california, please, ann. >> i haven't seen any perspective on spock splits lately, i'm curious when they're dpoipg to split their stock? >> companies tend to be very close to us to divest about it. when you split it you get two pieces two for one split for the same company it doesn't create any wealth at all. it happens to be exciting, when stocks do split, some of the smaller invest stores get a chance to buy. all right, that they didn't have otherwise, so i am prosplit but does it not create any wealth and you can't determine when it will happen. discipline isn't but but it is necessary when you want to make big money in the market. ready. i'll help you out on mad money

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>> tonight we're going over the rules. the rules make it so loss rules that keep you in the game when others are freaking out. i used to talk about these rules all the time so they became second nature to me. that was years ago now, when i think about it it's usually in the response to a tweet that the rules answer. that's why i kind of dust them off and maybe sure people i'm not ducking the questions i'm looking for a better format to flesh them out than 140 characters where i can't be thoughtful. i want to be thoughtful, but it's hard. here is a typical question, some will mention the stock, they'll ask, what do i do now? i often then turn the table on the person asking why did you buy in the first place? the followers regard that as arrogant or flip.

what i'm really trying to do is figure out if they bought it as an investment, which means it might be fine for them in a longer time horizon and they should buy more or if they do it for a traz and perhaps they should cut their losses, why does this matter, because one of my cardinal rules is to never turn a trade into an investment. if there's one concept to take away, never ever turn a trade into something that it wasn't investment. let's talk about the process of buying a stock, the actual check data you must do before you pull the trigger. when i decide i'm going to buy an oil driller, i have to declare, right up front to myself whether i am buying it for a trade or for an investment, what's the difference? a trade means i'm buying it because of the specific catalyst, the reason that will drive it higher, recommendation, a belief that things are better

than expected or some news that we always talk about, break up into several pieces or some occur. in other words there's a moment buy. perhaps because you think that oil is about to spike because of shutdown because of spigot in russia or some problems in the middle east and then there's a moment when the event occurs and you're done. you must declare first before you buy, here is why, the vast majority of you will buy a stock for a reason, neither the reason occurs nothing happens to the stock, you decide, i'll got it investment, i won't won't worry about it or perhaps never the reason never occurs and you decide to hold on to what's the worst thing that can happen, the answer almost plenty. the answer you would have never bought it in the first place if you didn't think the reason is going to occur, there's no reason for you to own it in the first place.

i've seen a myriad of invest stores turn trades into investments to full themselves they're doing the right thing that's because they don't make the distinction between a trade and investment. it's the reason why i bought the oil company at higher oil prices does it materialize, i can't say hold on to it because it has a swell dividend. the only thing that would have saved that from being cut higher oil prices without them the idea for the trade is going into the dividend, now, when i want to invest in a company, not trade, invest in a company i buy a small amount of it to start and hope the market will knock down the stock so i then buy more at a better price, that's right, i actually when i invest want the correction, which is always the way you want to be thinking if you're trying to start a new investing position. you don't want to buy investment stock. but, there's nothing like a nationwide market wide sell to

get you better prices on your buy, trading is the opposite. i put the maximum on at the beginning because i believe the data point or the event is about to occur. i never buy anything for a trade without that defined catalyst that's the word we use. i never buy anything for a trade hoping it will go higher it can be no hope in the equation of buying a stock. i buy down lower prices when i'm investing. i cut my losses immediately when i am trading. it's the reason i'm trading the stock doesn't pan out. that's why i like to say that my first loss can be my best loss. if you buy a stock for trade and it starts going against you in a meaningful way, decline of 50 cents is meanful, you may have a real problem on your hand. when it comes to trading i'm a disciplined person to the penny. i like to cut my losses quickly and get over them quickly, that's why i say my first loss is my best loss. all other losses tend to be

again, people, anyone watching, to feel the trade going arye but because of eco, pig headedness, they don't want to heed the thunder and they stay in, only to let the panic out at lower levels when the catalyst doesn't occur and the whole reason to own the darn stock evaporates. don't fool yourself, cut your losses quickly when you put a trade on and it starts to go arye. sure, there's an occasion or two when it's about to pan out, but for the most part it does and you're probably going to be wrong, just a fact of life. come pen yum of all the studies i've made, the bottom line never turn a trade into investment, take the loss, because believe me the percentages say you'll most likely new money, if you do so do it earlier rather than later.

can wipe it all out. there's much more "mad money" ahead. chasing doesn't always have a happy ending. corrections are certain, don't miss my take on to how to prepare yourself for the inevitable. plus it's easy to get attention for your hold, holding on too long can burn you in the end. i'll let you know when to stuck the cord. stick with cramer. your clever moves won't stop the cold and flu. but disinfecting with lysol can. because lysol wipes and spray are approved to kill more types of germs than clorox. including those that can make you sick. for a healthy home this cold and flu season... lysol that. i take pictures of sunrises, but with my back pain

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>> we are going over the rules that have gotten me at this point where in my career where i can play for charity instead of treading in my own hedge fund which i retired from. the lessons are very much with me and i'm going over them tonight in this special show to help you in your portfolio. if it weren't for that darn buy of, i would have been up big, i will be making a huge amount of money in the market if only i hadn't let blank let's use fire eye run against me when there was all that insider selling darn it, all. it makes one or two losers to wreck a portfolio. i try to devote far more of my time analyzing loser stocks than my winners not because of a

streak, rather, i recognize that stocks often telegraph decline ahead of time, loss control is power amount concern for all those in the market because the winners, the good stucks, they take care of themselves. take the loss before it gets hideous. don't buy into the notion that you can't sell until it comes back and then you promise not to do it again. how many times have i heard that one? that's how losers think. you need to think like a winner not a loser. you want one of my answer focus on twitter you're obviously un unfocused. the flip side is true too, you don't have a profit. listen to me, you do not have a profit until you sell the stock and nail it down. . it's not a profit, people constantly confuse big gains, real gains you can take to the bank or, of course, get yourself

a cashmere sweater in the nice department store with phony paper gains they can be taken away in a heartbeat. most people were also reluctant to ever book a profit they don't want to pay taxes. i always tell people if i can just rewind the tape to january of 2000 or july of 2007 when people were sitting on literally trillions of dollars in unrealized gains because they didn't want to pay the tax man, we will be able to drill this point home well enough people will respect. gains not taken can be losses that will be taken. gains taken never become losses, it's that simple. i stress this point because we have all been brainwashed not to sell. somehow we think it's simple. it's trading, whoa, it's common sense cal to sell, it's logical to sell it may be the only way to get rich in a choppy business, but it's just counter to human nature. when it comes to stock human nature, i this i think you've got to learn to count.

it's hard to resist. i can't tell you how many times i've had my heart in my throat pounding, pounding because i didn't own enough stock in a rising market. i didn't have enough exposure. i can't tell you how often i felt that i had to play. i had to be big in stocks because the market was going higher and it was going higher without me. do you know that every time i had that feeling, that instinct almost every time i had that i can't miss this action dro ma playing around in my head, do you know what happened, that's right, i lost money. disappointed is the most important rule of winning and investing. it's teaching. sometimes that discipline means admitting you missed the opportunity and it is already too late. i almost always feel like i missed something right near the top of the market, the top of the move. when i was a hedge fund manager, i turned that sentiment boo a profit center by betting against

thought i was missing the upside. that heart stuck in the throat feeling core lated with the tops of moves not the bottom ones. i made money saying there's that pain again, sell. i always remember it's the best time to buy when it feels most awful not when it would relieve the pain of fearing you're going to miss the big rally. you must protect yourself against over trading, trust me, there aren't me great ideas to act on. the real great guys don't have that many ideas. you have to think about when you're proned to this. for instance, want to go on twitter, i'm always amazed how people want me to opine a stock that just reported they want me to do it in one headline alone. i find that business wires that report these numbers are almost wrong in the quick takeaways

than complicated than the press release. . headlines have presented stories about such and such number being better than expected are the type of d -- the reality is that there's something else, some other metric that might be more important that's manufactured with one time gains that happens all the time. i think you have to read the whole story and listen to the conference call, which part is the portion before the q and a when they lays out its guidance that moment, and not what the headline writer is responding to you will see make the stock move, that's where you get the rack at move from. everything else, guess work. we can't do much with just guess work accept get in trouble. so many of you want to get in trouble periodically want to trade on the headline. electronic trading you can move too fast and many too, it's like

learn the whole story, if it's a great opportunity you will not miss it. be sure you know what to look for and what matters. you might want to have a grid of what all the analysts have been saying about what is about to occur. that way you won't be fooled by the first move which can be taken by people who areless informed by you and they're less informed believe me, understand that the headline for many companies earning doesn't tell you how they're doing on the key metrics. what are you looking for, production growth, not earnings per share, hotels, revenue pa route, not earnings per share, revenue per seat mile. many times i've seen up headline money to learn they're guiding down expectations the key metric estimate wasn't beaten even though the headline says it was. the bottom line, don't let gains turn into losses, certainly never trade because you fear the market going up without you, or a stock rallying the headline just maybe might be wrong as

ed in california, ed? >> jim, i like your opinion on the strategy that i've been using in deep in the money calls going out anywhere from 6 to 12 months on stocks that you recommend this is to avoid any market swings what do you think of that? >> this is exactly what i want. ed is doing exactly what i want. i talked about this. 800 page chapter i decided to cut back. he's doing stock replacement, he's taking the risk out of common stock and by stopping the decline and getting the upside, big percentage gains, you're the man. you know what i have to say, you have horse sets, jacob in california, please, jacob. >> hey, jim, how are you? >> i love the show. >> thank you. >> i love the advice it's phenomenal. >> thank you. >> as an initial, you know, first time invest store, what is your recommendation of how many positions once you have -- one

should have without going over that had. >> we can only handle 30. we're pros, we get hurt. which means i think more than a dozen in an individual who may not be let's as so fis kated as we are going, so try to limit it. it's five with mad money that's a good way to get started larry in massachusetts. >> it was off said that jack kennedy's greatest strength he surrounded himself with extraordinarily bright people, well i wouldn't be in the game at all but for your teaching through the many books, action alerts on the show. i have to tell you how much the folks that you gathered at the street.com, brian, bob lang, and regina cliff, at the show. >> holy cow. >> you're a close follower of in. what's going on.

when does the core holding start looking long or something to be ditched in other words what characteristic made it a core holding? >> what a great action. thank you for all those action alerts, here is what you look for, when everybody knows what you know, when there's single a analyst that doesn't love your stuff, when you con tantly hear that that company is great and ceo is great, you know what, it's long in the. got fomo, don't trade because you fear the market going up without you or if you fear a stock rallying that may be wrong, there is such thing over trading. i'm here to help you out, coming up sure corrections will come. you don't have to suffer when they strike. i'm going to show you how to prepare for those painful days and we all want our stocks to succeed, getting too attached to a portfolio killer. i'll explain why emotions and money don't mix, they're oil and water.

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>> tonight we're going over the rules and disciplines i have learned, holy cow, four decades of investing. rules that i want you to know, rules that i want you to just kind of learn by heart like i have. hey, you know, not just like the usual twitter 140 character stuff. this is real stuff here. a lot of people, for instance, don't think correction is ever going to occur, you get loled into the market during good times a lot of people get in times when there have been months and months of good times. when bad times hit they're eager to pin blame or be shock in disbelief. instead of expecting corrections and not be fearful of this. when a correction occurs many invest stores decided they now

that's the correction signifies that something is wrong with the market as a whole as if these aren't stocks of companies and, therefore, the market can't be touched. that is a really big mistake that is made constantly. corrections happen all the time. they typically happen after big runs they're to be anticipated. i learned this in the great peter leverage years ago, said anticipate these. you can't write off the market when they happen. i always like to put things in personalalties i tell the story of jody mauj owe, 56 straight hitting streak, when he failed to hit in games 57, should you have traded him, should you have cut him because of, well, whatever. was he finished? is that smart thinking? same with the market. corrections are to be expected and accepted as a matter of course, particularly after 56 great gays in the market you'll

get something like that. when they happen they're not a reason to panic. they can be great opportunities even when people insist that the market is done because the charts are bad, taking out the moving average. create death cross, whatever that is. or the market is unpalble, some trap i hear every time it snaps a winning streak with a up couple of losses and we put on bears who come out of hibernation, now. given that so many don't expect corrections here is something that seems pretty common sensible, it's avoided by people i have met. people wrongly believe in being fully invested at all times. lots of managers think they're supposed to be fully invested every day. this is nonsense, lots of time the market just stinks you want to have some cash on hand i'm not saying going go in and off. have some cash, pretty good, a lot of times it's nothing to do

accept have some cash. in fact, one of the chief reasons that out perform every manager in the business during my 14 year run, is there were substantial blocks of time i had a lot of cash. i was largely in cash including dropped. so it's actually 22.6% hit, to be precise. cash is a great investment at little and nothing. i regard perfect hedge as supposed to shorting the market, the market keeps going higher in 1999 or the year before the great recession in 2008. you can face devastating losses and continue to stay overvalued and climb and climb and climb. i think cash may be the single most under rated of investments, because nothing feels as good as cash when the market comes down. you know that's my trust, always good to be in great position when the market gets hammered.

if you follow my meft of how to trade, you'll know if it spikes i take off stock off, sell a little, trim here and there and get ready to reposition myself for the next correction. folks of you viewers know i sell strength and buy weakness. when the time is right i almost always have that cash to put to work because i believe so strongly in cash as an option. if you don't raise that cash, here is what could happen, you might end up selling your winners to subsidize your losers, that is another common mistake people make. so many bad portfolio managers always sell their best stocks so they can hold on to the worst stocks. you can always tell when you see this pat terch. you'll be reviewing someone's portfolio i used to all the time, and the port foal you will be filled with junk and you will say, hey, what happened to all of your -- i'll say what happened to all of your blue chips the kind of stock that

the other side. invariably i had to sell those. they kept going on. many on tweeter seem to have this problem. portfolios riddled with stocks that stop working a long time ago. i've counselled enough professional invest stores to know the first thing to get sold are the best stocks. there's already a bid for the good stocks why the bad stocks seem to go straight down the line and fold under any pressure. when some of the more admired professionals have a handful of good and awful they don't sell the awful ones they're down so much. typical alibi, they're probably going lower, please do not subsidize losing spots. if you own companies with deteriorating fundamentals, common occurrence, please sell the bad ones, take the loss, reapply the proceeds, go to the good ones, move on. don't feel bad for yourself, lots of times and circumstances simply change for the stock market.

might do a lot of business in russia which could have been great, with the fight on ukraine companies you recollecting. that's -- nothing wrong with that, slow down the economy, that's caused shopper it is to stay away from expensive brands of products. which happened i called the depantrying of america, the blind side many of the food stocks seriously thought to be safe, or perhaps like a company making fortunes and very big drugs and generic competition crushed the margins ch they're so often kept because they had gone down and investors bought more of these stocks and sacrificed let mef give you the bottom line, it's coming, have some cash on hand, when it happens don't sell the good ones to subsidize the bad, you'll end up with a terrible portfolio that won't be able to bounce back when times turn better. "mad money" is back after the break.

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. >> if you aren't prepared mentally, you won't be tough enough to handle these moments and you will flee instead of thinking about what's really right to do or you'll be paralyzed with fear and self doubt instead of mindful and opportunistic. emotions have to be checked at the door in this business. i auch hear people say, i hope that a stoke goes up or they ask jim cramer on twitter, doesn't have to go up? come compliant go up, doesn't a

team have to win? people this is not a sport event. we're buying stocks that we believe should go higher and we're avoiding stocks where the underlying business is getting bad and getting worse. people treat this business like a religion, like an etiology, they believe if they pray things will work out, maybe they will. or they fall in love with these pieces of paper that love will be requited. be realistic, hope, pray, love, these are all enemies of good stock picking. i recall the when i would get off the trading desk and she would say, what's the deal with this memorex a company that got crushed. i am hoping to get big contract. she would screen, hope. hope. we need hope to make this work. sell it and get me something where we have more in our favor

man, what a beat down. many times she didn't even ask, she just sold it after i used the word hope to see if i would buy it back. i was hoping something would happen and once it was sold i felt, well relief. sometimes the stocks of good companies do nothing and you get frustrated and you want to sell them. good stocks can do nothing for ages. if you're a professional investor in a hedge fund this partners calling you, asking money. pain. individuals can sit on stocks slong they want. when i cancel patients many get ansi, they'll netflix, they went to gains they want it now. i say some of the best stocks require some incubation. you know how patient i was owning intel. for 18 months i watched it do

nothing, paint dry, nothing at all in late 1980s but i believed. i held on to it because at that time i had a few partners and none of them needed to know how much they were worth. a common stream asked how i was doing. later in my career when partners hounded me daily, i would have never held on to intel that long. lots of takes a long time. lots of turn arounds take 18 months to 2 years when you buy a stock, market it so you don't get tired of it sell it and give up. here is something to remember, stocks that are stuck tend to romp when they are freed from the gates. do you hear the patients? if you don't, let someone, no should have, would have, could haves. one of the most disspeckble trades second guesses. you buy some sell jean suddenly

dupont the day before and sends it soaring, next thing you were filled with self doubt. that's nonsense. get it together. the market requires you to have the right head on at all times. you have to be ready to see the ball right for the next pitch, okay. there's no time to get on down on yourself do that for fantasy f. you want to constructive, bracket some time at the end of each month or maybe at the end of the quarter to assess your strategy and your stock picking anlts to second guess your vat ji, mind you, i want the pain felt. when i thought one of the younger that was costly to me, i made them the wear the symbol of the stock that they screwed up on as post it on their forehead for the day. i sent them outside. if only i is time to keep you from getting the next big stock.

than men they lack second guessing instinct. whatever, she did teach me to steal myself to come in the next day without the mental baggage of screw up so i can be ready to swing it. this business is not about hope. it is about fundamentals don't root for your stocks pick shares in good company and they will unless circumstances change dramatically that cause you to sell, they'll go higher. but be patient on the good ones and try to keep the sell p doubt to a minimum. clear your head, get out there immediately and find out the next big winning ideas. there's just no room for should

and stick with cramer. >> favorite part of the special, we go for what you want, that's right, we've got some tweets youf eve been sending me me @jimcramer. my first tweet comes from mark richards auto dividend reinvestment take cash or buy selectively. your take? a huge percentage that they have come exactly from dividend reinvestment. this is a no blainer there are few no brainers and prelaunchers in this business. compounding is the secret behind great wealth. reinvest. >> here we are, who wants to know first came up with the way you say meyers that happened to be broker, can you imagine when cramer and i traded together, we had a broker who often recommended for some meyers he always said it that way. i decided, hey, that's the way

let's take our next week from at craig which is smarter, add to a whole ring, if you do not want to buy more of that stock lower, then you should just sell it because if you liked it higher, you should love it lower. so the answer, buy more of the lower one or get rid of it. up next at no to l whatever. at what percent for profit should we sell shares. this is really important. there's no firm rule. when a stock goes up about 50%, i like to sell some of it and then a little bit more and i sell more. but the all great investing, you play with the houses, money. that's the way to do it. always try to fight to get to the point where you're playing

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