To: KW Wingman who wrote (3934 ) 7/4/1998 12:53:00 PM From: Ron Harvey Respond to of 5736
<< I would also like people to see the truth. That is more important than making a few extra bucks>> Your transcendent altruism has been favorably noted, and when we're all ultimately harvested, the heavenly portals will swing wide for you while the well-paid CCSI shills get sent to Fresno. Meanwhile, of general interest, I phoned Schwab and NBD (affiliated with the large MM Sherwood) twice on Thursday, the first time a couple of hours after the market opened and again toward the close. I pretended I wanted to short whatever was available up to 5,000 sh. of CCSI. None were available. Which is not to say it's the same at other brokerages, but perhaps it's an indication that further shorting pressure, at least from non-MM's, might be limited. Finally, the bears' talk of scam and fraud is based on rather rickety and overwrought assumptions which require the existence of a wide-ranging conspiracy that includes the FDA and physicians with noteworthy careers. Have various longs spun golden scenarios based on the same sort of spurious assumptions? Yes indeed. Is D. MacFarlane likely naive about partnership complexities and the kind of percentage Chromatics can realize from a deal? I do think so. Will there be a deal? Sure. Probably a few with different distributors. But will the deal(s) justify a stock price of 4 or 10+? Beats me. And neither the bulls nor the bears possess the inside information or a window to the future to answer this question with anything approaching the dogmatically confident assertions that I read here in Threadland. For the near term, however, I think that stock movement will favor the longs. And if I'm wrong, perhaps a few munificent altruists here will volunteer to pay for the bedroom set I'm having built. Or perhaps you sinister highly paid shills can forward a portion of the blood money you're regularly collecting.