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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Y2k_fan who wrote (7367)	4/23/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: Zebra 365	Respond to of 23519

I don't get no respect!! I went to the short thread to ask for just a little favor, keep selling down til we get to 5. This was not but 24 hours ago. And just to tick me off they started covering today. Well, of course all that buying had to be just shorts covering to spite me. 150 million dollars, just so I couldn't get a tax break. See... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<<To: MIKE DUBIS (307 ) From: Zebra 365 Wednesday, Apr 22 1998 7:59PM ET Reply # of 355 I have a complaint for the management. Seeing the scenario playing out, I sold some VVUS on April 2, to lock in a tax loss. Now I have 10 days to go before buying it back. I would like to ask you all to please keep shorting every time VVUS pokes its neck above 8. I was encouraged by today's action but someone obviously failed to keep selling and we closed at 8. Not what I expect from the "short to zero" crowd. I would like to buy it back below 5, if it's not too much trouble. Also, being as this (Viagra) is a "media event" drug release, please keep the tabloids from reporting the Viagra "horror stories" until I buy back in, one or two of those and VVUS will pop back up like ZONA did and my dreams of easy wealth will be shattered. Yes, I know the tabloids would never go near negative stories about the most popular drug of the decade, it would be a violation of their ethical standards, but there may be one out there who will shoot for circulation first and ask questions later. So, if you will just do those two things for me I'll be grateful. I'll even get the Billboard on the 1997/1998 shrunk down to proper size if you'll just get the price down to 5 for a couple of weeks. Zebra PS: I think some folks, short and long, should lighten up on each other, its a stock, not a religion.>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So I wound up replacing my whole position in non-taxed accounts, so I can still have the tax loss, but I AM disappointed. You would think that a small, one-trick company up against a marketing juggernaught like PFE could keep the stock price below 9 for a measly 30 days. VVUS is up against the greatest drug roll-out since Ken Kesey took LSD, and started the Electric Kool-aid Acid tests. But this timing is perfect, where are the momentum players headed next, now that the internet bubble has burst? Do we think that SEEK losing only half as much money as expected (earnings report today) will make YHOO, XCIT, KTEL, MARG, LCOS, SEVL, etc. return to their dizzying heights of a week or two ago? I kind of doubt it. Momentum players will be back, and they will speak the VVUS language. I saw TA flying slow, lazy circles over the thread recently. Long VVUS again, Zebra P.S. despite the shorts not holding up their end of the bargain, I will try to update the billboard and shrink it, soon