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Strategies & Market Trends : Investing during a Bear Market -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard J. Byrd who wrote (10)	11/7/1997 10:41:00 PM
From: Bonnie Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 226

Richard: if the BIG guys had to sell off their stocks due to impending catastrophes, it would take them weeks to sell off their holdings. So window-dressing the market and supporting it while they sell their holdings into the pension plans might be a plan. One would want to show a bright and cheery face to the public over the weekend and on Monday morning to keep people in the game till the bitter end, and the selloff would go on mid-day during the week. The indexes would be supported at the expense of the rest of the market, for the sake of appearance. The action certainly fits this pattern.