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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lbs who wrote (5380)	10/30/1997 10:29:00 PM
From: PAL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

There is one rule of thumb on Wall Street and used as an indicator as to where the stock is heading: If there is no share available to short, this means that all the big boys have used up all the stocks to short, and none left for small investors. The stock will likely go down. The alternative is to buy puts. If there are shares available to short, the big boys anticipate the stock will go up, hence they are not shorting in a big way. Remember that Wall Street still thinks that the small investors are always wrong. Have you checked if AOL is available for shorting? Next one good for shorting is N2K. This stock is even more overvalued than Amazon.

To: lbs who wrote (5380)	10/31/1997 12:46:00 AM
From: KM	Respond to of 13594

All you can do is keep trying. Be persistent. It was the same with RMBS. I was only able to get 750 shares to short and I wanted 2000. Let's find out when the lockup date is over with this co. Re AOL: I prefer to short common rather than use puts because who the hell knows when it will tank?