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To: OZ who wrote (8107)	4/29/2000 5:17:00 PM
From: brec	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18137

Would you agree that (other things being equal) a $900 account with a $600 long position is subject to more risk than a $900 account with a $400 long position? If so, then if we change the $600 long position to a short position, doesn't the increased relative risk remain? And isn't it therefore true that if both positions started at $500 and lost $100, that the portfolio with the short position thereby became a risker portfolio than the one with the long position?