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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks

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To: Jon Tara who wrote (4284)	7/25/1997 10:36:00 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	of 9285

Jon, let's look at it another way. If I had shorted and held the Forbes portfolio I would be down 10%. My actual portfolio, which is a mixture of longs, shorts, and money market, is up over 50% since January. Yes shorting the exciting stocks is risky and yes you must be prepared to dodge the train sometimes (remember that fateful day that I started short CTXS and finished on the long side), but that is where the money is to be made. Shorting is inherently more risky than being long, therefore it does not make sense to short for small gains on slowly sinking big companies like Temple Inland for example, they have the resources to surprise you. In fact I am long some of the stocks mentioned in the Forbes article in my long term "buy and hold" account.

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