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

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46384)	11/10/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Yak-attack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

You know what I find sooooo funny, ZANY website was launched today and guess what, it moved up 1/8 on low volume. Pretty intesting considering this was the stock of the century a month ago with some big bad hyper saying this is going to 40, blah blah blah. If all the hype for this webiste, why all of a sudden nobody cares. Can you say, "P & D"

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46384)	11/11/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: Jenna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Question: There are a number of IPO's that usually get one or two days before earnings hold for anticipation which is usually enormous and then I sell and go flat after 25-30% gain in one session (i.e. CYSV, INTI, etc).. Sometimes I sell and then go short but not for these new IPO's, but rather IPO's I'm a little more familiar with like GSPN and AGIL. Now these are not necessarily POSS stocks but nevertheless they make fantastic short candidates purely on the theory of "exhaustion" when the stock has just broken through the highest high and spikes up precariously like the top of a flagpole. Would you short these stocks THE DAY you sell your long position or would you wait for a small gap up the next day and then short? Would you consider just a 1-2 day short as covered by your shorting techniques? I did not short CYSV or INTI but did 'a paper short' I have done this on many IPO earnings plays that advanced on anticipation, only to succumb to sell offs after the earnings come out. Does anyone have a srategy that could take advantage of this relatively new phenomenon of IPO's going sky high on anticipation of their first report and then crashing on the news, whether it be good or bad news?