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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: Broken stocks - Analysis

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To: Vol who wrote (2107)	2/22/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Q.	Read Replies (2) of 2506

Vol, shorting the low RS neg cash flow screen does nicely in most market conditions, but in a correction to a recovery it does horribly. You can see this in the two following table, which are actual screen portfolio performance-to-date as of the close today screen Russell 2000 6/10/98 (near market peak) -33% -12% 10/7/98 (near market bottom) +52% +19% Quite simply, you do not want to be short broken stocks in a market rebound.

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