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

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (7849)	4/25/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: Bald Man from Mars	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

<<Jim, there were shorts who made good money in KTEL Thursday and Friday. The super run-up was a "long trap". MARG, CYSP, HCOM, ALMI, and others went through the same gyration. Last week was one of my most profitable weeks, but I covered the positions at end of day, start over again Monday.>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Roger, I think only professionals and/or people like you who can watch every minute should try this "short" thing. Roger, sometimes you give the impression that shorting is a very easy game when you say you short ORG and make 20% in one day, some novice who is reading this thread would think that they can do like you do, but you need to let them know it is not as easy as it looks (especially in this booming market). Personally, if you have to play from the short side, then take $1,000 and put it in 4 or 5 positions and try it out. It is safer (in the sense that you will not get squeeze) to play from the long side and if you are wrong, you can always turn from a trader to an investor ... Wish you continue success in your short game, to all others, just stay long or cash, if you really are in the spirit of gambling, try a few puts ...

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (7849)	4/25/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Roger when I call waterhouse and they say no one has any shares to lend out, and I call A.G.E. and they tell me the same..then I know what is going on..I did not just fall off the cabage truck, shorts got killed in KTEL..some of them are still stuck there.. and don't know what to do..you can't get out unless someone else shorts and lets you out she is locked up, the fish are in the barrel on this one, and I confirmed that from someone who should know, your just shooting from the hip..on this. I'm telling you you can't trade her like it looks on paper. Jim