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To: ratlong who wrote (2283)	3/26/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: diana g	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3115

Re: Price Jump Speculated Upon Possibilities: A.)"...a RATL-sponsored pep rally just ended and everybody called their brokers as soon as they got out." 2.) George Soros told his people: "I want to buy 250,000 shares of RATL. I want to buy them in 1k lots at the asking price, and I want them twenty minutes from now." III.) Some sort of SOES flurry of buying (triggered by ???) I think the large number of 1k sales @ ask support this hypothesis. I can imagine the run-up feeding more buying as it went. --- but we really should hear from an SOES person about this; I am not qualified to say how realistic a possibility this might be. --------- Other ????????????? Len, I really like the image that A.) conjures up!!! LOL!!! Trevor, I think when any entity wants to acquire a great quantity of a stock, their first choice would be arranging block trades. If they wanted to buy on the open market, they would eeeeaaaasssseeeee into a position over a period of time so as to avoid what we just saw. I'm no stock maven. Just a simple grrl trying to figure this out as I go along. I welcome correction and criticism. I hope someone who understands these things will enlighten us!!! Till then, my vote goes to Len's "... It was odd though to see it happen. It was as if a RATL-sponsored pep rally just ended and everybody called their brokers as soon as they got out." which makes me grin every time I think of it!!<GGG> best regards, diana