Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (10364)	6/22/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: J.S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Yes Sam that also applies to shorts (not too many I guess) who have watched profits on short or otherwise bearish positions fizzle away. I have taken my share of profits both ways (as well as watching some paper profits go) and I know how fleeting they can be. I doubt the the typical AOL investor can identify with this. We are getting a nice speculative bubble with internet stocks and their fellow travellers. In some cases the companies are looking more and more like fronts for securities escapades if not fraud. Many of the officers in these companies can't hope to make 1/10'th the amount from honest work in their lifetime than they can from cashing in on stock options (anyone we know?? (VBG)). You just have to wonder how committed these people must be to the long term success of their company as opposed to managing their company's stock price.