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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM
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To: dumbmoney who wrote (1370)7/6/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: John Howell  Read Replies (1) of 4634
 
There are two other criteria that can be useful in evaluating small cap stocks as possible shorts.

1. Managements that use their PR departments to "pump" a stock. This is often evidenced by "press releases" that imply huge future potential by dropping big names, but in actuality contain no material information. Technology companies in particular use VAR announcements, teaming agreements, partnering agreements, etc., in this fashion.

Legitimate companies rarely try to manipulate in this fashion.

2. Criteria #1 is often combined with the hiring of disreputable stock promoters (Dave Stewart, e.g.). Spotting one of these relationships is often an early indication that the company is more interested in the stock price than building a business.
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