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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nic who wrote (625)	1/18/1998 10:13:00 PM
From: jim black	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6846

To any and all: I have just spent more than an hour going over ALL QWST posts since the beginning, trying to get a feel for all available info on this company. For starters I am long bigtime(12% of my portfolio) on WCOM. Everything I read about QWST is very interesting. I have a problem trying to read meaningful info among posts from investors vs. speculators. That said I have a question. Supposing for example we consider another company of mine QCOM. Now managment owns somewhere around 15%. So it might behoove them to manipulate or play the stock, and little guys like you and I have reason to get pissed off if they sell at a higher level before they let us in on the bad news. You know, INSIDERS(aka Bastards) Now, on the other hand here is a company with very small float of total shares outstanding,( Anschutz has 86%?) WHAT in the name of the Eternal does he get by manipulating the stock? Doesn't make any sense to me at all. I can certainly understand the cynicism of the little guys. God knows we have all been stung enough times. Somebody enlighten me about how I can get screwed by buying into this company long teerm visavis the insider trading?