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To: Mr. Pink who wrote (14063)	8/30/2000 10:12:59 AM
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From the Fall 2000 Forbes Best of the Web there's an article on "Dangerous Chatter" about how people can get conned on message boards, and there's a sidebar with definitions of stock board lingo such as Basher Anyone with the audacity to suggest that an o-t-c Bulletin Board listed company with no earnings, no revenue, and a history of run-ins with regulators is a bad investment. Usually presumed to be in the employ of evil short-sellers. DD-Due diligence, a reference to the detailed, almost ritualistic investigation an institutional investor is legally obliged to perform before buying a stock. On chat boards, "dd" is used to refer ironically to a press release or unconfirmed rumor, as in "great DD on that perpetual motion machine." IMHO In my humble opinion. Disclaimer following a completely groundless rumor. LOL Laugh Out Loud. Customary dismissal of basher comments which usually turn out to be true. Long Investor who holds a stock, or wants others to think he does. Long and strong Investor who rode a stock from $5 down to 5 cents and feels the need to boast about his ability to sustain a loss. Momo Upward momentum, the hazardous ascent phase when investors make large paper profits before the price collapses. Pump 'n' dump A scheme in which insiders pump up a stock with hype(see momo) and then dump their shares on unwitting investors(see long and strong) with predictable results. Short Also called a short-seller. Often dismissed as liars who "short and distort" or are "killing the dream," their presence is often a warning to the unwary that the stock involved is a "pump 'n' dump." Short squeeze The triumph of the longs, in which short-sellers are forced to buy stock at any price to cover their positions. Occurs less often in fact than is trumpeted on the message boards. Spam Unmitigated hype distributed across multiple message boards. As opposed to the targeted hype posted on specific stock boards. Also one of their main bits of advice is Avoid o-t-c bulletin stocks and their boards altogether. Stock manipulators tend to prey on stocks priced below $5 per share. These stocks often fall below regulatory radar. If an e-mail comes in about a low-priced stock, delete it.

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