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To: Jonathan Brown who wrote (46)	11/13/1997 1:33:00 PM
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The only book I can recommend is Kathryn Staley's "The art of short selling." It doesn't explain the ABC's of how to short stocks, or how to incorporate short sales into your portfolio in a desired portion, though. It's just a collection of case studies of particular stocks. You must decide what is right for you, but I would suggest that if you aren't using margin leverage on the long side, the short: long ratio in your portfolio might be anywhere from 0.05:1 to 0.3:. I wouldn't recommend shorting a stock with less than 20k average daily volume, or less than a few million shares of float. You can check those numbers for a particular stock at marketguide.com

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