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To: Lola who wrote (52568)	7/24/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Jenna	Respond to of 120523

Actually, Lola, I enjoy your posts and you will be a welcome member to the Market Gems thread. I don't agree with you on what motivates the shorters to post their picks. I think that the shorts post their picks as part of their strategy to 'scare away the longs' to abandon their long positions , because otherwise they can't 'pull the price of the stock down'. I'm not talking about short time shorts like 1 to 7 days, but an organized attempt to drop the stocks price by undermining the stock and scaring off the investors. So while you call it 'they are posting their picks, it's just part of their strategy to get investors/short term traders and intermediate holders to abandon their positions, get out while there is still some capital left. All the while the shorters are now in a self-congratulatory mode hi-fiving each other at a job well done. And counting their money, that is why the dare bash some like me and 1/ dozen others who are in the way of this goal, by cooly going long and mentioning it on the thread. Please understand I know that there are big loser stocks out there in the market environment, but we can judge by ourselves which and the 'savior status' of the killer-short gurus are only self serving.Their strategy is conquer through undermining, ridicule, humiliation and out and out insults and attacks. They don't give a darn if the stock has legs, they see a stock that has run up, write to people that its time to short, put in a nice short position of their own and sit back and reap the benefits, all the while masquarading that they are uncovering the truth, justice and the American way. They can do what they want on the world wide web, but on this thread and about a 1/2 dozen others they will find a stone wall. I've lived in a country where we stood up to real terrorism and survival was something no one took for granted. If you think a group of short gurus have any kind of intimidation control, they are dead wrong. i am only speaking this way because it is the weekend and they are not intruding upon my trading. Any attempt to intrude during the trading session, will be handled with our autoresponders.