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Pastimes : Ask Mohan about the Market

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To: kahunabear who wrote (6577)10/30/1997 3:00:00 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 18056
 
I think a substantial percentage of the population believes that
stocks are essentially equivalent to lottery tickets that never
expire. They buy them, and only cash them in if they are winning.

But don't think that this prevents further sell offs. The number
of shares traded the last few days is minuscule compared to
the total number of shares. I believe that only 0.6% of the
market traded Tuesday, and probably 60% of that was flippers,
and another good percentage was institutions. So the vast
majority of stocks currently owned are sitting on pretty gains,
and people do sell in fear of losing gains.

Like that math a post ago, Joe G! It's about as mathematical
as most of the people in this market can get.

I'm looking at puts/shorts on LLTC, MXIM, and VTSS tomorrow
AM, basically semi high-flyers. Any comments anyone?

-- Carl
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