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Technology Stocks : Research Frontiers (REFR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bridge Player who wrote (5200)	4/8/2004 12:32:01 AM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50536

Bridge, I do know how you feel. For much the same reasons I rarely post on the Yahoo board and I've been reticent to post things of much substance here either. Unlike Gary I actually work for a living. I am an apartment manager. Nobody pays me to do research and frequently I simply don't have the time to do it. Today happened to be a slow day. Bashers often expound facts mixed with distortions and proving them wrong is time consuming. Furthermore, even if you succeed in totally flaming them they don't really care. There main purpose is to create doubt for potential new investors. Investors who hear about this technology take one glance at the Yahoo boards and conclude that the stock is controversial and seldom engage in the kind of research that will convince them otherwise. Gary and his group know this. That is their purpose for being here. Incidentally, I don't believe that the groups that are bashing REFR engage in short-trading only. I believe it highly likely that they go long as well and actively play the trading range up and down with enthusiasm. I do think there is something to the theory that certain investors maintain large quantities of borrowed stock with with very helpful brokers. In situations where they must cover their shorts they merely hand over those shares to those brokers and do not trade them on the open market. I find it a plausible explanation on how half-million short shares seemed to be covered without affecting share price earlier this year. Ed S.