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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (88793)	12/28/1999 1:21:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 164684

>than infinite is not so large a word. Let's say you've got a really easy going broker. Let's say he'll let you get up to 100 times your margin limit into debt. (long term capital) Now, even with that situation, how could you ever approach infinite losses? You say "theoretically", yet all trading activity has to take place in reality. It is not even theoretically possible that a brokerage would allow you to incur infinite losses. They should just say "When you short a stock, you run the risk of losing a lot of money- maybe even more than you invested." Where does this infinite crap come from? Mutual funds arent allowed to advertise by saying: "It's possible that you could have infinite gains, if you invest in our fund!" The reason of course, is that its considered unamerican to short stocks, and warning the sheeple of "infinite losses" hopefully will scare the few remaining people with any concept of fundamental analysis back into their homes where they'll leave the rest of us bulls alone, free to push markets ever higher and upward, on our way to DOW INFINITY AND BEYOND!