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

To: w molloy who wrote (28925)	7/26/2000 3:22:11 PM
From: StockHawk	Respond to of 54805

>>A simplistic example - 3COM exploded to well over $100 after PALM IPO'd , before falling right back to just below its current levels. An astute trader could have made a nice wad by following the trend,and still keep the all important distribution rights. Based on that example, one might be loading up on QCOM now<< There is a board on SI called "BACKDOOR, an IPO" that was set up to help people profit on spinoff IPO plays. It has much success in early 1999, but then the strategy seemed to stop working. (The play was to buy the parent when the IPO was announced and then sell at IPO time. Generally the parent would run up with pre-IPO frenzy and then sell off.) It was mostly companies spinning off .com's such as Barnes & Noble. It might be worth a look for anyone thinking about such a play. Subject 24862 Also, just for fun, it might be worth looking at the stock charts of some high tech spin offs (although these links do not seem to be working properly, they can be used as a starting point). HWP & A: (use 50 weeks) siliconinvestor.com; n=50&p=week T & LU (use 60 months) siliconinvestor.com COMS & PALM (use 30 weeks) siliconinvestor.com s=&cs=&n=30&p=week StockHawk