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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Rollins who wrote (64093)	7/6/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Tom, There are no great ways because a private stock has none of the tools. One way to do it before the IPO is to buy puts on a competitor, assuming your firm has a close match with some other firm. Once your stock is public, you can short against the box, but may not be able to do so depending upon your restrictions. Also, this stuff usually has to be reported to mgt. and directors and, from experience, I know they don't take it kindly. <g> If there is a convertible issue or a warrant, there are some strategies that can be played, but that doesn't sound likely in this case. So, I'd start sizing up the competition.