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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Miller who wrote (7187)	11/6/1997 11:11:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

If there is a chemical involved, I'd appreciate you sharing its name. Damn, it's getting pretty tough around here. Even the normally shy, quiet David Miller is getting a little testy. I think too much Borland can have this effect on people....

To: David Miller who wrote (7187)	11/6/1997 11:18:00 PM
From: synchro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

David, read the title of this conference: It's "Borland, Time to buy!" You have 90% of people long (including me), 5% of people short, and 5% of people who claim to be short but really just hang around to stir the nerves of the 90% longs for entertainment (especially when the some of the 90% take the bait and actually respond to the short's provocation). This is more like a sporting event. For research, go read the SEC 10Q and 10K, and follow the trade weeklies.

To: David Miller who wrote (7187)	11/6/1997 11:44:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

Wait a second, doesn't every thread need the obligatory THIS STOCK IS GOING TO FLY!!!!!!!!! GoooooOOOOOOOO!!!!! [SYMBOL HERE] participant? I thought it was a requirement.

To: David Miller who wrote (7187)	11/7/1997 12:34:00 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

I also don't think market specialists are any smarter than the rest of us, and they make many mistakes. However, they have one advantage over all of us, they can, at least a little, control the price of a stock. They are in the game to make money, which means as I see it selling a stock on average for a few cents more than they pay for it. If they anticipate a change in the direction of the market, rightly or wrongly, they will, IMHO, attempt to adjust their inventories to take advantage of the change. When a stock moves on low volume to a greater degree than the opposite move on high volume (compare yesterday to the two prior days), one has to wonder why, especially in a market wih little outside movement (not like today, obvioulsy). I happen to think its the market specialist repositioning his or her position for anticipated future movement. If any of you have been market specialists and what I have just posted is not true, then by all means correct me. Every little bit of knowledge helps in this game. Regarding todays movement, any stock will be overwhelmed by greater market sentiment, but given the weakness overseas and in the technologies, Borland is doing pretty damned well today. Anyone notice how volume picked up on the upside after the initial selloff? Regards, Sam