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To: backman who wrote (19003)	6/6/2002 8:01:54 PM
From: randy1503	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26752

i was being presumptuous when i said it was easier to go long in a bull market, as i don't really know, so i shouldn't have said that. i've only ever traded big cap stocks, and i do it only technically, so you're no doubt right. you have some enormous balls shorting such low priced stocks. either that or you're just insane or clueless. lol i can understand longing small caps because of the profit potential, but it seems crazy to me, from a risk-reward perspective, to short some of the stocks you mentioned. all you need is one stock to do a 5 or 10 fold, which doesn't seem that unreasonable when they're $1 or $2, and that would wipe out ten to twenty successful trades. on the reward side, the most you can ever make on any short is 100%. i think small caps are just too easily manipulable due to low volume and lack of information to short safely. if i was a long term investor, i would definitely go for small caps, but i think small caps are terrible trading vehicles.