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

To: xcr600 who wrote (78278)	6/20/2002 8:18:37 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 122087

>>>Better yet, why don't you convince someone why being long is the best bet? With all the lying ceo's, accounting fraud, bullshit sellside analysts, etc..<<< If you've read all of my writing you'd realize I'm not opposed to being short, that shorting does serve a practical purpose in the world of up and down. Well, one good example is when it becomes known a company is delivering deficient or ineffective products into its marketplace--the recent automobile tire controversy; or if a company fails to meet its revenue guidance; or if a company's share value rose too fast and gets to a point where it realistically shouldn't be. I'd think an informative, an intuitive investor could detect situations like the above and honorably place their short accordingly and do very well, no need whatsoever to stack the trading deck by becoming part of an organized and, in effect, manipulative shorting syndicate that perhaps only targets low floats or stocks vulnerable because they're still within a development phase. Maybe there's an inherent weakness in many of you who've been so closely linked to the A@P thing, that you need a leader to identify the respective target(s) so that you can each easily and very collectively pile on or pile in. I mean there's absolutely nothing wrong, in fact there's something quite good, about having a shorting discussion forum. But when most of yers are already lined up before the discussion even begins, to me, that's wreaks of stackeddeckal behavior, again, especially in low floats or vulnerable development phase companies. Now, as to the "the lying ceo's, accounting fraud, bullshit sellside analysts, etc." what do you want, the trumpet or the flag--let's charge together!