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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (91749)	7/5/2002 4:51:46 PM
From: Short A. Few	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

So analyst Joe Blow owns 4,000 shares of XYZ; or maybe he owns nothing at all. If he fails to touch base with management before changing his rating, he WILL loose his job. Meanwhile, his employer is short 500,000 shares. Guess what he is gonna say? - or maybe I am just too darn suspicious, right? SEC would have us believe that the analyst's holdings are all we should care about. If there is no disclosure of his employer's holdings, it just don't matter, 99 percent of the time. A little more obfuscation, courtesy of the SEC is what we got here. JMHO, SAF