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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22002)	2/15/2001 1:07:54 PM
From: Souze	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Hypothecate comes from a from a greek word. It means 'to pledge as security without delivery of title or possession', per Merriam-Webster's Cellegiate Dictionary. While your dictionary may not have it, your brokerage account agreement might do so. It's an in vestment term that refers to the loaning out of shares from a brokerage account. Most non-IRA accounts are set up to give the brokerage firm that ability. De-hypothecation reclaims those shares, forcing the person to whom they were loaned to acquire replacement shares; enough of that will induce a short squeeze. I've heard, but don't know the details, that the account owner can request that the loaned shares be 'de-hypothecated', but after a fixed period of time the shares automatically become re-eligible for loan.

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22002)	2/15/2001 1:12:22 PM
From: DWB	Respond to of 29987

Not to steal Maurice's thunder, but I believe it means to tell your broker to not allow your shares to be borrowed for short sales. This would typically take place by moving them from a margin to a cash account. You can probably search the "massacre" thread on the word "dehypothecate" or "dehypothecation" and find out more than you'll ever want to know... See the following.... Message 13651550 DWB

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22002)	2/15/2001 1:39:54 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

"dehypothecating" -- removing the long side from a "right" triangle. Jon.

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22002)	2/16/2001 3:21:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

<font color=blue>Get<font color=red>IT<font color=blue>Here Noel, IT knows everything. Hypothecate, hypothecation, hypothecates, hypothecator, hypothecating is here dictionary.com <What do you mean by "dehypothecating"? looked it up in Websters under hypothecate and dehypothecate plus variants. No such animal.> Websters is obviously past its use by date. While dehypothecate isn't there, we needed by bound by that. Dehypothecate is a neologism. dictionary.com Mqurice PS: for newcomers, "Get IT Here" is my favoured expression for QUALCOMM-powered products to have as a label [instead of "Intel Inside", "QUALCOMM-powered", etc]. IT, as everyone knows , currently stands for "Infotech", or "Information Technology" and perhaps "Internet", and for me, the Internet when it has evolved to a really smart, self-determining intelligent entity operating in symbiosis with people which will be CDNA-powered [CyberDNA] humanoids instead of the RDNA-powered [Random DNA] lives we currently lead.