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

To: Don Westermeyer who wrote (7710)	4/23/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Oh Geez...I knew this would start happening. I discussed L.L. Knickerbocker (KNIC) on this board in the past. I've shorted it on several occasions. This is a company that manufactures a line of novelty items and celebrity lookalike dolls. knickerbocker.com In a desperate attempt to goose the stock price, the company made a bizarre investment in an "alternative fuel" company. Unbelievably, many investors snapped up the stock - creating perhaps one the best freebie shorts I've ever seen. So the stock has been slowly crumbling over the past few months as the suckers took their losses until it hit the 3 dollar level. I covered my last short in this stock a few weeks ago, but (and I swear that this is true) while the K-tel frenzy was going on the last few days, I thought to myself, "I bet those KNIC idiots will try to pull some internet stunt to get the stock going again..." biz.yahoo.com