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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (4475)	10/30/1999 7:04:00 PM
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One can be a "saavy trader" without hair-trigger sarcasm and vulgarity. When visitors were summoned to this board by the decision of its host to make a pronouncement about a specific company, they soon received a ration of glib doubletalk in lieu of earnest analysis. I am critical of BW as pundit, not BW as trader. To short at $16.50 and cover at $10 is excellent trading. To pull that off in the face of long-term fundamentals to the contrary is marvelous trading. BW has my admiration on those counts. But BW also saw fit to pronounce the company a "piece of crap," even while advising that short positions be covered below $10. Any way you slice it, that is a recommendation (albeit a very specialized one to a very particular class of investors, i.e., those who are short the stock) to BUY the stock at prices up to $10. Maybe this only goes to show the esteem in which BW holds crap. But one who resorts to such vulgarity should not later try to claim the high road -- not even by proxy.