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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TAPDOG who wrote (3908)	3/3/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

LAMR just split last week, and it's still moving up. My July 25 puts are now July 12.5 puts, and are sure to expire worthless. (It's hard to imagine the stock dropping 70% by July, though it really should drop 90 or 95%, to reach a fair value.) If LAMR hits 40, I may buy some more puts, though the last time I checked, the puts were pretty expensive by Black-Scholes standards. I made my first play on AMZN yesterday, by buying March 65 puts. They are up slightly, but I'm going to hang on and see what develops. AMZN could easily fall below 65 in the next 2 1/2 weeks.

To: TAPDOG who wrote (3908)	3/3/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: tom pope	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18691

>>Also, it seems like AMZN stock is not available to short at the brokerages I tried this morning.<< Same experience here. e-schwab has no lendable amazon to short. If someone has the time, could you tell me the option symbol for amazon?? my quote service denies the existence of amzn options....

To: TAPDOG who wrote (3908)	3/4/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: Philippe Thibault	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Hi Tappis, Shorted LAMR yesterday as well. I'd like to know if you have any opinion on today's run up in the stock (Coming news? or pure manipulation?). Also, I find really strange that a company like LAMR, that had a ~300% appreciation in its stock price in the past year, doesn't have its own thread... I am asking this, only because it makes me kind of uncomfortable not knowing the reasons that push some people to go long on this stock... 'cause I can't think of any :) Finally, the $100 question, when do you think the big drop will occur? Phil