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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks

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To: Larry Ricker who wrote (4281)	7/25/1997 9:58:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	of 9285

Larry, of course the Forbes list doesn't have a lot of the stocks that tend to show up here. The Forbes list is absent of risky momentum stocks, the shorting of which is guaranteed to raise your testosterone level. Instead, it mostly lists stocks of troubled companies with rotten fundamentals in boring industries which are unlikely to become a momentum play. I'm pretty much convinced that, for the most part, this thread isn't about making money. For the most part, it ignores stocks that are going down, prefering ones that are going up and might go down. What this thread is about is stepping in front of a freight train, and living to tell about it. Makes it all that more thrilling. :) I've suggested one short here - TRF - and it was poo-pooed. I think it was too boring. I think it was just too obvious that a Russian country fund that had doubled in a month was excessive. We don't want the obvious here - we want excitement. I should have ignored the thread and trusted my instincts, as the next day it dropped from 65 to 50...

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