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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: Broken stocks - Analysis
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To: Q. who wrote ()9/5/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: s berg  Read Replies (1) of 2506
 
Question for John G. Many people who post here and on Motley Fool appear to be managing significant portfolios far larger than mine. If you wanted to implement screen two in the previous message

1 PBook.FY > 3
2 OperCashFlow.FY < 0
3 RelStr < 15
4 AvgVolume6WTrading highest 20
5 MCap.FY highest 5

and were selling short 50K per stock or more would you get killed by bid / ask spreads liquidity problems. Also, last Spring I believe you said you liked writing options for this screen could you elaborate and / or suggest some books to read on this topic.
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