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Technology Stocks : Osicom(FIBR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Pawlak who wrote (6643)	5/1/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Brian	Respond to of 10479

David: Barbara obviously meant companies, lets not get picky or you might start to sound like some others who I have ignored in times past on this thread. And I think you are grasping at straws with "How do you know that some of the people who's share's are now registered didn't already hedge by shorting traded shares?" Please don't lose your credibility. Brian ps. I haven't explored on the SI thread for a while, but I tried the bookmark feature the other day. It works great to track seldom used threads as it shows you when there is a new comment on each of your bookmarked threads. If you haven't tried it it is worth looking at.

To: David Pawlak who wrote (6643)	5/1/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: CMS27	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

David, I don't quite understand this. They could short the shares prior to this registration, I imagine that the short they make can be covered by the shares they own. They have equity in those shares so shorting is not such a risk. They just have to be able to hang on until the shares are registered for sale, in order to be used to cover a short position. Am I making sense? So if they went short and FIBR started to go up before they could sell, this would be a bad situation. But if they went short and made money, they could then make more selling the shares they own when they were registered for sale. So what do they care for the success of Osicom, they never needed the stock to appreciate. They made plenty of money, both down and up. The fly in the ointment for them would be a rising stock price. Maybe a few well placed articles could help that. Sorry to sound as if I'm hunting for conspiracies, but I'd really like the education of understanding these deals. It really doesnt matter to me in terms of FIBR. I have reduced my position and consider them more a speculation than ever, figuring this out is not motivated by my position in FIBR. I just want to take this opportunity to understand this stuff. Anyway thanks for any explanation you can offer of these financing deals. Scott