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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: High fliers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carl Yee who wrote (488)	4/23/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 709

Not if you can't get shares. Have to gamble then and short on the way up, which has been lethal for many shorters in the latest mania.

To: Carl Yee who wrote (488)	4/23/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Q.	Respond to of 709

Carl, not only SEVL, but MARG, TSCN, and other bubble stocks of the same ilk popped today too. The 2-day soar and then bust scenario looks a lot like what we saw for similar low-quality tech stocks in May 96, like SYQT and zenith, for example, although then it was at least 3 days on the up side of the bubble. If you want to try to identify bubble stocks on the way up, one way might be to watch SI's 'hot thread' link: techstocks.com at the moment, you will see threads for some of those stocks that busted today.