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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (7194)	11/18/1997 11:21:00 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9285

craig, thanks for the COMS links.

To: craig crawford who wrote (7194)	11/18/1997 11:26:00 PM
From: philip maun	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9285

To anyone with short selling experience and can help, Today I attempted to short YHOO and my order was cancelled by a trader(Pacific Brokerage Services-PBS). The reason I was given was that PBS could not borrow the shares from another Brokerage house for me to sell short. With YHOO being a highly traded stock I found this hard to believe, but none the less I couldn't short it. Is this a common problem with shorting stocks or does this only happen with the small Brokerage firms? Any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA, Phil BTW- I was only selling short 100 shares so the size isn't a factor.