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To: Perspective who wrote (272356)	12/31/2003 1:42:30 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

"Tax selling" usually refers to selling for the purposes of establishing a tax loss. For example: "On a sector basis, the telecommunications group -- chock full of losing stocks like AT&T, Qwest and Verizon, -- looks most likely to come under tax-selling pressure" money.cnn.com Or: "Tax selling Selling of securities to realize losses that will offset capital gains and reduce tax liability. See: Wash sale. " glossary.mindshark.com I have never seen it used any other way myself. People are seldom anxious to establish capital gains and often interested in establishing short term losses for tax purposes.