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

To: Ploni who wrote (9605)	6/3/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: Bob Trocchi	Respond to of 18691

Charles... >>Can someone explain how this market operates to me, because I don't have a clue.<< If we (or I in particular) really understood manipulation, maybe we would have a better chance of applying logic to stock moves. Short term stuff, I simply do not get. That is why I at need to do DD as best I can and go for the longer term. If I win any short term stuff, I am purely lucky. In the long term however, logic usually prevails. My sincere congratulations to those of you who can capitalize on short term and often illogic moves. The problem is sticking out the pain at times for people who either go long or short based on value/logic. Even with that it is easy to still end up on the wrong side of any given transaction. Bob T.

To: Ploni who wrote (9605)	6/3/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Hank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

It's very simple Charles. When certain people with very deep pockets have money invested in a company like ZONA, they have the ability to orchestrate hype and short squeezes. Now that they have had a chance to bail during the last price run, there is nothing left to pump the stock, so it will drop like lead brick from here on out. This wouldn't be possible in a large company with a large float but with a company like ZONA, it's easy if you've got the bucks.

To: Ploni who wrote (9605)	6/3/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: BDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

<< This was widely known; what difference does it make that now it was announced by Steve Lisi? Why does Lisi carry more weight than Asensio, Bill Wexler, and the others who understood this was a generic drug ineffective for erectile disfunction?>> It isn't that Lisi announces this information, it is because the study was presented at the AUA almost simultaneously with data about Viagra, MUSE, apomorphine, et. al. with pretty significant press and financial analyst coverage of the event, not to mention the 10,000+/- urologists in attendance. The data are bad and look even worse in comparison to the competition.