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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: High fliers

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To: Q. who wrote (653)3/5/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: Mark Marcellus   of 709
 
So you're left with the usual problem with internuts: you are looking at the company at such an early stage that the market cap is way too high based on their present meager revenues and their negative eps, but you can imagine scenarios where the market cap will be justified and then some

John, I couldn't have said it better. To go short on this I'll either have to be 100% certain it's going to fail (I'm currently at about 99%) or management will have to present me with an outstanding opportunity by pumping up the stock price. I do think they're working as hard as they can on the latter option.

I didn't know you were still boxed. That's not a terrible position to be in. Even if you don't get a chance to go short on the upside you'll be able to do it during the final death rattle while the rest of us might not.

FWIW,

Mark
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