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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: heronwater who wrote (78159)	6/18/2002 12:43:10 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Heronwater--I'm aware of many facets. It's a very interesting situation and one requiring lots of careful thought from the longside, from the shortside, both sides really. There's some heavy stuff goin' on 'round here--lol! Even the air's gettin' heavy. I don't think anyone questions there weren't sufficient reasons to hero-whorship Elgindy's work exposing degenerate corporations. After all, we live in a hero-whorshipping society and that's a very good thing to do. All that would seem natural. But when it all becomes Blind Faith, and the short targets become targeted and campaigned against in a near-soldierly fashion, well, then it becomes an important time to ask some good questions. Questions like: Where's the research coming from? What was the method of delivery of this knowledge? What company becomes a target, and why; what company doesn't become one and why? Whose likely to gain the most; whose gonna gain the least; and, of course, whose gonna lose, how much and why? All sortsa questions. If you think about it for a moment, it really becomes like a short stick-up, doesn't it? All asudden what seemed a comfortable investing position suddenly changes as the price opens fifty cents to a buck lower, and you don't even know it happened 'cause you're off innocently working somewhere. You come home, find out what happened and, woe ... what ya gonna do! Yup, another innocent momma and another innocent poppa gettin' the stickin'. You know, I think an argument can be made that eventually if a bad company is a bad company that those who've been supporting it will eventually no longer support it. Whatever happened to the considered conclusion! Instead, the shorties jump in, whip up some panic and spout out, "Stickum' Up!" I mean ain't that essentially what happens?