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To: Marshall who wrote (932)	3/18/1998 3:28:00 AM
From: Q.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2506

Marshall: welcome! That's a very nice database link you found for private placements. It's for companies with market caps <$300 M, which is right on target for this thread. Scanning down the monthly lists in that link, convertibles jump right out at you, and in many cases the description even says that the conversion price is tied to the market price of the common stock. Doing a quick quote on yahoo to see if the stock price and market cap are high enough quickly eliminates a good fraction of the deals listed, so that you don't have to look at very many, really. I think using those two steps before reading the SEC filings is quite a reasonable approach for finding discounted convert deals. While this link won't turn up every deal of interest for shorting (it turned up only some of the recent discounted convertible deals I'm aware of) it might very well turn up enough for any one person to actually use. Looking down the list for February, I see DRMD and RMTR, which I believe our SEC search club found from the S-3 filings. I noticed that RACE was listed for January. I suppose that's how you learned about this database?