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Microcap & Penny Stocks : PKGP (Packaging Plus)

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To: anthony karpati who wrote (3305)6/8/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: John S. Baker  Read Replies (1) of 4783
 
> May be the preferreds are playing both sides of the fence...driving the price down, shorting, and accumulating along the way? <


Happens this way a lot with floorless convertibles. Short some, drive the price down. Short some more, getting even more shares per dollar 'cuz the price is lower ... thus driving the price down. Then short some more again, 'cuz...


Well, you get the picture. It is progressive deterioration.


I'm not smart enough to figure out whether that's what is happening here, but the patterns for some other stocks with floorless convertibles can get pretty ugly.
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