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To: excardog who wrote (22366)	11/2/2000 11:56:06 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

Shorting and puts - I do a bit of both, depending on the risk of a squeeze. I only play puts in ZIXI because it could spike 20 points on the right news. But sub-$10 dot.com trash is usually better to short outright, since premiums eat up a lot of potential profit. Rookie shorts get in trouble shorting a gator like EXTR and then panicking when they go underwater 10-15 points in a momentum rush. To sum up - put premiums are worth paying if the downside risk (i.e. a squeeze) is possible. I was hoping for better in DNR and TMR in terms of a bounce, but I will hold through January and see how they perform.