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To: jfoley who wrote (18909)	10/31/2001 9:39:50 PM
From: TLindt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

>>>I don't think some people can risk NOT shorting. What's the difference? Sell high, buy low. Is there no risk in buying a stock at 14 and knowing it is going to the single digits? Problem we face today is uncertaintity, the markets DO NOT like uncertaintity. It was all ready in a down draft prior to 911, but wether or not you think we are at war, war has been engaged upon us. War brings the utmost of uncertaintity, FEAR. Only folks in this country living today that have experienced War on our Land, against our Land are 60 years of age, and they were infants in 1941. So Maybe 70 to 80 year old people can actually remember who were back then 10 to 20 years old. I don't know about you, but all those I've talked to in the last 6 weeks, and I deal with 100's of them say things after a phone conversation like; "take care dear" "I love you sweetie" "be good" "be safe" "thanks honey" "be good" Every conversation ends with a voice of kindness and kindship from 70 years of age or older I deal with daily. When I was in High School I worked Co-Op for a Pharmacy, I was part-time Soda Jerk, and part-time get to drive the Boss's Ford Bronco around and deliver perscriptions to shut-ins. I'll never forget knocking on this door in December with a perscription in my hand, it was freezing cold and the wind was cutting right through me....I just wanted off this Old Farts portch and back into that warm Ford Bronco, ringing the bell and knocking on the door. It seemed forever for this old 90+ year old Lady to come to the door that day, and when she did; I stammered something like I have your perscription Mamm. She said I know, I seen you standing out there, it's just that I'm so old it takes me awhile to get around...BTW do you know what day it is? Sure Mamm it's Thursday. Son, she says this is December 7th. Yea, Thursday. Come inside she says, it's not just Thrusday...you need to know what I know, I got a $1.60 an hour for that and didn't get fired. The best 3 dollars and 20 cents anybody ever invested in me. Thanks Boss. You Old Folks guys, tell your story, youth needs to hear it, cause they may face it. I know a lot of you guys have never talked about WWII, let the youth know, pass it on...before you go. CKFR, whatever, first things first...ie NOW.

To: jfoley who wrote (18909)	10/31/2001 10:25:37 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20297

<<I don't think some people can risk NOT shorting. >> How many years trading/investing you have under your belt? Those are dangerous words you are speaking. Sure the fallicy that your losses are unlimited being short are a joke. And the reasons are too self evident to get into right now. But never the less, shorting is a very risky business. That's why people who short(other than day trading) are much more in tune with those stocks they short than those long the stock. <<There is no more risk in shorting than going long>> Please elaborate on thatcomment at your leasure. So now here we are. Go ahead and short this stock if you feel comfortable enough with it. Again, if you knew me, my habits, you would know I encourage people to take full advantage of trading opportunities(I mean I don't see the color green in my country's flag). But here's my take on shorting ckfr. The volume is generally too low for me to piddle around with shorting it(unless you are playing with a few hundred shares). If you do enough DD here(which I hope you will share with us), you may find that there are better "sleep well at night: stocks to short. Besides, if you are going to short any stock, you better do your home work. Most shorters do much, MUCH more DD than those that go long on a stock. Shorters are much more market savvy and more apt to ferret out all the rats. But we're a cultish thread. I think most of us are massochists too deep inside<G>) But fact is most here have been around for over three years, and again, do your home work, mosrt of us have traded this around many more times than you may assume. If you want my record for this stock, go back and read the last 18,000 posts here as well as the other 8,000 posts here #subject-761 And you might learn a thing or two about how we do what we do here. I hope I'm not coming off as brash or anything, thatsurely is not my intention. But I anxiously await further discourse with you about CKFR or anything else market related.