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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (12718)	12/14/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Curbstone	Respond to of 54805

Mike, That's part of the reason it's so risky to own the Godzillas compared to the Gorillas -- the market tends to undervalue the Gorillas while it tends (so far) to overvalue the Godzillas. I suppose we all have a friend or two who is one of those nearly manic bears. And while I am having a hard time buying into his prognostications of a soon-coming market meltdown, he's at least got me thinking about formulating a strategy for the eventual bear market. (At this point, I've never experienced one) To date I've never shorted a stock in my life, but I have to think if there ever was a real bear market afoot, and I was looking to play a Gorilla Game in reverse, those pumped up, overvalued Godzilla's would look like mighty tempting shorts. The charts seem to show that in those quick market downturns, like we had in October's past, nothing fell further or faster, than the Yahoo's, Amazon's, and E-Bay's of Godzilladom. For me, it's charts like those that keep the Godzilla thread bookmarked. Aloha, Mike