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To: Les H who wrote (34776)	12/5/1999 11:38:00 PM
From: lifeisgood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Les, Thanks for the helpful links. Unfortunately, on further examination, the charts which can be found on them show that there is little correlation between member/specialist shorting and index price level. This is somewhat counterintuitive. Any ideas why this is the case other than 1) historically, there is a siginificant lag between when specialists short and when the market corrects 2) specialists are notoriously wrong best... LIG

To: Les H who wrote (34776)	12/5/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: John Madarasz	Respond to of 99985

$4.5 Billion Outflow From Equities The Week Ended Wed. 12/1/99 TrimTabs.com Investment Research December 2, 1999 $4.5 Billion Outflow From Equities The Week Ended Wed. December 1, 1999 TrimTabs.com Director of Research Carl Wittnebert estimates that all equity funds had outflows of $4.5 billion over the five day week ended Wednesday, December 1, 1999, vs. inflows of $6.5 billion during the prior week. Equity funds that invest primarily in US stocks had outflows of $3.3 billion, compared with inflows of $6.1 billion during the prior period. International equity funds outflows of $1.2 billion vs. inflows of $400 million the week before. Bond funds had inflows of $500 million vs. outflows of $900 million the prior week. Hybrid funds had inflows of inflows of $200 million, vs. inflows of $100 million the previous week. Mutual Fund Trim Tabs daily tracks flows of 91 fund families that have about 20% of all equity fund assets. MFTT then regresses those numbers by sector to estimate total flows for all equity funds. In a study assisted by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, two professors from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Rochester bought and independently analyzed our data. The study concludes that mutual fund flow is strongly related to same-day market returns, and to previous-day market returns. The Wharton Report. trimtabs.com