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To: Perry Ganz who wrote (300)	10/3/2001 9:19:45 PM
From: Bocor	Respond to of 455

>>I would like to know if the bears/shorts would be against showing short sales on say a ticker or short sales for the day>> good idea...as long as buy to cover orders could be shown as well...that way I could catch the squeezes easier, and also know when a true junker whose shares are unavailable might be once again freed up to short! I have no fear of being squeezed, always allocate appropriately, have lots of patience, do pretty decent research, both TA and FA, and have made the most profitable trades in junk that has been run to the moon on squeezes...HOMS sort of comes to mind among others. as a frequent HOMS pumper often said, "You'all be careful out there."

To: Perry Ganz who wrote (300)	10/3/2001 9:35:13 PM
From: Nazbuster	Respond to of 455

RE: "I would like to know if the bears/shorts would be against showing short sales on say a ticker or short sales for the day" Not at all. I'd love more disclosure: SS's, Buy Covers, and daily reporting of Short positions. In addition, I'd be in favor forcing the major MM's who make markets in a stock to only trade under their own L2 ID in that stock. MM's play games by faking buy/sell interest via the ECN's while playing the other side of the trade under their own ID (or vice versa). We're forced to expose our orders via ECN's or hand them to the MM's (through online brokers) who then work them to THEIR advantage. Forcing MM's to trade under their own ID's will level the playing field.

To: Perry Ganz who wrote (300)	10/4/2001 2:57:22 AM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 455

<<I would like to know if the bears/shorts would be against showing short sales on say a ticker or short sales for the day>> I don't presume to speak for all "bears/shorts", but from my perspective as one who both shorts and buys stocks long, I think more information would be great. Any short-seller beyond the stone novice level knows that shorting stocks with large short interest entails greater risk of a squeeze, so this information would be of MORE use to shorts than to longs. They should also clearly indicate on the tape when a buy is "buy to cover", to help us identify early on when a squeeze is going on. Agreed?