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Technology Stocks : XYBR - Xybernaut -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Dydo who wrote (3410)	3/19/2000 9:21:00 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6847

Great Post from Yahoo --- XYBR shareholders: Short Squeeze comin.... Nice Post Buccalflap. The Journal really got a foot up the ass for that "Heard on the Street" idiot. Bloomberg's always been a bit shoddy, looks like theirs is coming too. Further below, you'll find something on Shortselling I dug up from the Dow Jones Co. itself. But before--or after--you read it, consider four things: 1) Yesterday, Friday March 17, was triple witching Friday. That means the simultaneous expiration of the current month's stock options (long and SHORT), index options, and index futures contracts. This happens every quarter on the third Friday of the month. Likewise, it also means anyone who holds a short option for April had better start praying for the worst--or, "NUDGE IT" somehow--if the stock is not trending their way. This convergence is usually associated with large price swings. (Duh!) 2) If, as we all hope--and buzz and patents tend to support--a Big Blue deal, or any big deal is near term, would you not opt for cheaper tickets on the gravy train, especially if more tickets meant more acres in the promised land? Whoops, got carried away with my metaphors there. But you get my point. Whether a depressed stock price equals more leverage come buyout time; or somebody's spilled the beans and some disingenous private investors wanna jump in on the cheap--who's to say. 3) Even at $4.00 a share, as some shorts have predicted here, the intellectual property value of this company, locked up in it's patents, would far exceed its book value, IMHO. Any negotiated acqusition price would be a very large per share multiple of that $4.00 price. If shareholders were to "lose", we would more than likely still be ahead, given the most you could have paid for your stock is the mid-20's. Think of that as your "safety net." I am. 4) Come Monday morning, about 9:05, you're gonna start seeing posts from names that have just started appearing on this board--and posts from people who've registered with Raging Bull at 9:00, 5 minutes prior to posting. They will be saying all kinds of things about how XYBR's gonna tank. Some will be semi-thoughtful, some will spew like they were raised by psychotic stalkers from Hell. They'll tease, they'll chide, they'll scream, and they will cuss. They'll say "you're a loser." They may say "get out while you can." Or "Get out before it hits zero." They may even say "you'll owe 5 bucks for every share you own after it hits Zero." When this happens, ask yourself: Why would anybody expend the energy to so strongly encourage someone they DON'T know, to sell an investment?