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To: rt1^ who wrote (21495)	8/1/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Karl Drobnic	Read Replies (1) of 31646

RT1: Your points are good. But I have several clues. A professional short seller could short with impunity if handed a large block of shares to sell for a client. Also, visible short sale statistics do not indicate a large naked short position. So this is not a "short to zero" situation. And why not? Because Chevron, for example, has a regular SI. Tava beat out that regular SI (a Raytheon or IBM, maybe?). Why? Because Tava has a proprietary database. That database, now over 40,000 items is winning contracts for TAVA. It is valuable. If Tava gets cheap enough, a Raytheon/IBM/Rockwell will step in and buy TAVA for the database - in a bidding war. So the shorting, if professional, must be hedged. TAVA won't go to zero, and naked shorting is unlikely. Clues abound.

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