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To: James Clarke who wrote (3274)	2/21/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: Honest Abe	Respond to of 78515

I agree that to short a stock, you should first wait for it to fall. For full disclosure, I must say that I never have shorted a stock, yet I have always been interested in it. I have 'paper shorted' stocks before like AOL, and realized I would have lost my shirt. But, again, those stocks often had all the short characteristics I want to see, except they still had price momentum. I think the key is to find a point at which the momentum players have been burned to the point they will not get back in for a while. So a 10 percent fall probably isn't a good entry point, but a 25 percent one may be. I'm very interested to hear about other people's successful short trades and the timing they used to trade them. PS - What does -g- mean? I can't figure it out.