To: ALTERN8 who wrote (17975 ) 12/16/1999 9:57:00 PM From: Solid Respond to of 29970
A8- We had a chow dog when I was a kid. Great dog. Gorgeous animal. Powerful too. Use to grab use by the boot, knock us down and pull us around the yard. She had a bad habit of running after cars and sometimes neighbors. Wound up on a long wire run. Sometimes she forgot, in the heat of the moment when a tasty neighbor ran by, that she was on that long wire run. She'd spring to her feet and fly like a strong winter wind, all of about 50 yards. I am sure her terminal forward velocity was in excess of 25 mph when she rudely re-experienced reality. No more wire lead, no more slack but plenty of momentum and kinetic energy...then SNAP! She would launch many feet into the air, in this painfully graceful arc, pivoting off her neck and the strong but small metal clip on her collar that was attached to the wire run. Then she would flip abruptly in the air, do an about face and slam down on terra firma once again, a bit shocked but not really too much worse for the ride. She lived to a ripe old age and maintained her penchant for the neighbors until the end. Once in a while, when a neighbor she did not care for got too close, she got them. Didi. Loyal as all get out. A great dog. Oh, I almost forgot. Your question about ATHM's price performance reminded me of Didi's predicament. Her is a post from Mac747, #23423, on the fool thread that will explain the similarities:MLCO – market maker symbol for Merrill Lynch. Wasn't Blouchett (sp?) the analyst from MLCO who had negatively spurned ATHM after the MSPG announcement? Well, I can tell you this, MLCO was selling and shorting a heavy dosage of ATHM. We should be over 50 today. MLCO was on the ask from 50 – 49 – 48 1/8 eating up over hundreds of thousands of shares. Maybe with tomorrow's option expiration MLCO is pushing the stock down to leverage any calls or put options they have. You would figure with 300 + million shares outstanding, 1 market maker would not be able to create such drastic movements in a stock. We really don't need someone like MLCO, who pockets are deeper than the King of Kuwait, against us, there are too many other factors holding this great company down. Keep a lose tool. One day the wire lead on ATHM will break.