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

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (6689)	4/10/1998 8:16:00 AM
From: Joey Two-Cents	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Pancho it's incredible that a stock like YHOO can run up 30% in two days. After I got burned back in January shorting EGGS I try to stick to the real weak unknown stocks like ZONA, ALTIF, EA and PSFD. Those high flyers such as banks and internets I think would be safer buying put Leaps of 1/00 way out of the money eventually time would be on your side. Buy some AOL put leaps 1/00 strike price $ 40 and it's like you started shorting the stock back in January. Good article in May's Worth by Jim Rogers about the IMF and World Bank, calls it a Ponzi scheme waiting to collapse.

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (6689)	4/11/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Allen Furlan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

To Pancho and other short players. Pancho,several months ago I read your idea on wdry and agreed that the stock price was based on hype. However my broker could not get the shares to short. I cant get myself to consider over priced stocks like aol,dell and yhoo because there is absolutely no logic that can be used to deal with the momentum players. So if a trader wishes to bypass low float and momentum issues, where to look? Recently I purchased puts on safeway even though there have been recent strong buy upgrades. My logic is that the company is at the high extreme evaluation for its industry. Also 29 million shares have been sold by insiders since December. Do you have any ideas on similar overpriced (relative to sector) stocks or have there been any ideas in this vein expressed on this thread? Any ideas appreciated.