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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: If only I'd held who wrote (37927)	6/7/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 122087

"Your return on cash would of course be 285%, but not on your equity." Since when is buying power equity? If you want to go full margin, I say 200% is the max you can make on a short. I may have a maintenance level of 35 or 30%, but I can't short more than twice my money. Basically, all I care about is overall portfolio return, and risk mitigation. Since I see the market as severely overpriced, it makes sense to balance the long side of my port with shorts. I know, I know, the market will never go down. But if it does the garbage I short will collapse. Those folks who think only of 300 and 400% returns won't be hedged. Oh well. Barb