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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Pancho Villa who wrote (7139)2/9/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Bald Man from Mars  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13594
 
<<FWIW,I am a short currently well under water but no plans of covering so you can
aim and take a good shot at me, use tomatoes, eggs, real bullets, whatever you have
got!>>

If you are short from the 30s, may be we will even send you
some food stamp, but otherwise, we never know how this dude
is going to react to earnings coming out tomorrow ...

I am bearish at this moment, even though short term I believe
it will probably only go down to 90-92 area.
If the puts get any cheaper, I will probably get some
before tomorrow's close.



To: Pancho Villa who wrote (7139)2/9/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13594
 
The raise in their prices is an admission that ad revenues have not turned up like they had hoped. Even some of the fund dumbs are going to add this up if the earnings numbers aren't stellar ...

I hope this is the last gasp, but it may not be. It was worth the bet today, for me. I really hope you win!



To: Pancho Villa who wrote (7139)2/9/1998 2:45:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa  Respond to of 13594
 
AOL: Will it survive? seems to be alive and kicking!

Pancho



To: Pancho Villa who wrote (7139)2/9/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: Alec Epting  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13594
 
Let's see, you had massive insider selling last month and some this month. You have earnings delayed. You have an announcement that subscription fees are going up (BTW didn't AOL say they were not relying on subscription fees to fund growth, that it would be advertising and transaction fees). Something seems fishy. Maybe the auditors are disallowing many of the claims AOL has made this past year.