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To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (107971)	9/6/2000 1:15:41 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

Gary, Your short going into Q4? Amzn is a strong Q4 stock and everyone knows it. Btw Never short a stock you hate, because a lot of investors might like it.;-)

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (107971)	9/6/2000 1:16:47 PM
From: Nick	Respond to of 164684

Gary: No Skimping on the Shorting Warnings By James J. Cramer 9/6/00 9:12 AM ET Some of you have emailed me saying shorting is not so hard and I should knock it off with the warnings. No way. First, when the market is going up, and you are short, the pain is excruciating. Second, when you are long, things go to zero. Then they stop. When you are short, they can go to infinity. Emulex, if you were short it, was headed to infinity. One of the things I do well here is tell the truth about what is tough and what isn't. Shorting is tough stuff. If you are not a pro and you insist on shorting, please, please do it in puts. If there are no puts, forget about it. If you are shorting right now and you don't know how borrowing works and how locating works, you are over your head and you should stop right now. Cover. Buy. Close out the position. I am doing this to scare you. I am doing it to frighten you out of your wits so you will contain the damage that you might do to yourself. Shorting is a craft -- a different, more tricky, tougher craft than being long. Being short and being long are only mirror images of each other in the boilerplate explanations journalists use to describe what shorting is. Anybody ever caught in a squeeze knows what I am talking about. If you haven't suffered through one, glom on to my pain. And keep it vicarious.

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (107971)	9/6/2000 1:18:13 PM
From: PAL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Logic and fundamentals will prevail. the heat from cash burn is as close as inferno. the market is often illogical. remember the guy who shorted iomega at 15? every one thought he was crazy. iomega was the champion of motley fool. now amazon is one of its baby. rosemary maybe?