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

To: Stingray who wrote (162)	11/13/1997 1:04:00 AM
From: Bonnie Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 226

stingray: you can usually tell that a stock will make a good short when it is obscenely overpriced, recently doubled-tripled in price, the stock stops moving up and the volume disappears. When the stocks stop moving the mutual funds move out and the thing falls to earth. Tekelec was a mutual-fund darling like this, I didn't look to see if it fell but it fit this category. Oops I just looked. Down almost 10% and ready to ca-chunk into oblivion.

To: Stingray who wrote (162)	11/13/1997 9:56:00 AM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 226

Hi Stingray, >>I didn't realize there was a low risk way of shorting stocks. What I mean here is limit your losses and insure a fair amount of criteria has been met that the stock is broken. >>Short term interest rates are pretty good right now but I think the long bond could come under pressure since so much of our debt is held outside of this country, particularly in the Pacific rim. I am watching this and the long bond could be a good short if we start to see these guys pull out their holdings. Right now it looks to me like US folks and others are using the long bond for a flight to quality and until the net selling by asian countries over takes this phenomena it looks like being long is the best game. Joan