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To: Alomex who wrote (119223)	3/4/2001 10:06:19 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Alo, sorry I meant this for Glenn, but it was in regards to your learn for your mistakes post. >If, on the contrary you short a company you are making the statement "things have gone bad for this company and I expect them to be doing more of the same". Glenn, I think you've got this attitude of shorting a company all wrong. You make it sound like to short a company there has be something wrong or bad about it. A savvy short-seller typically does not look for 1 individual stock to short, but looks for a sector that he believes will be under selling pressure. There might be 'great companies' in that sector, but that doesn't mean they're not going to get whacked too! I think the biggest myth a long-buyer has about a short-seller is they only short companies they do not like. That is not true! Btw A short squeeze is not like an earthquake. If you do your DD 95% of the time you can see one coming. That I learned from Amazon back in 98, when I didn't know what a short squeeze was. I assume you didn't either?