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To: Voltaire who wrote (20234)	11/28/2000 5:11:36 PM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

<<Have never seen a scenario that is any better for shorting.>> Understand.....but how does this help you have faith. IF gore pulls this out......gosh, dont even want to think about that...but you get my point. You yourself said there is no positive catalyst......Your saying you have faoth because you feel a positive catalyst is around the corner and that, combined with massive short covering is going to propel us....correct ? If so, what makes you so sure we will have any kind of positive catalyst? Hell, the election could go onand on and on and on.....fed talking their smack...what if they dont go neutral in december. I guess it just seems that you are clinging to hope, more then faith and we have discussed that in depth before.....anyway, I hope to hell you are right. I am sick and tired of watching years worth of gains disappear...If naz is down 30, I am down 10 - 12%...if naz is down 100+, I am down 25+%. I can't see owning anything other then tech however.......

To: Voltaire who wrote (20234)	11/28/2000 5:13:23 PM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In modern education and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing Riders. 3. Threatening the horse with termination. 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses. 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 7. Reclassifying the dead horse as "living impaired." 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. 10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance. 11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. 12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some live horses. 13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. They did forget the ever popular "the dead horse was not my fault, it was dead when I got on"

To: Voltaire who wrote (20234)	11/28/2000 5:20:56 PM
From: Hobie1Kenobe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

<<Have never seen a scenario that is any better for shorting>> V-man - bingo - it's a lot more fun to have at least one winnning position on a day like today. If I've learned anything this year, it's how to hedge and speculate on the downside as well as the upside. Requires alot more attention, but it can help preserve capital. Yes, I'm short RIMM via puts in this mess, but long and bruised in NTAP. Seems rather schizophrenic at times, but my RIMM puts doubled up today. Do you have any shorts on? Best, JF3 long JF3 short