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Non-Tech : Auric Goldfinger's Short List -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: trenzich who wrote (2147)	6/12/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Allen Furlan	Respond to of 19428

Could anyone point me in the right direction? I am conservative and primarily trade in covered call writing. I would like to balance my account with some short stock,short put positions. I am too risk adverse to short volatile over priced high flyers. Instead,for example, I tried to place an order to short Irridium several weeks ago when the puts had a very rich premium. In this case I believed the stock to be destined for lower prices based on fundamentals and I did not believe that the probability for a large upside reversal was high. Unfortunately my broker did not have the stock available. Is there any source of "conservative" shorting ideas on the web? Thanks.