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To: DavidG who wrote (36172)	7/13/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: IceShark	Respond to of 53903

David, What you describe is sometimes referred to as boxing. It works great if you are looking to get net short quickly in a down draft or where shares to short are hard to come by. Even if you are a smooth operator like MB and have finagled a short rebate you might want to check out what this is costing you in interest when you are out on margin. With MU it is usually pretty easy to get a short executed, so I not so sure the strategy is all that useful overall given the interest cost. On a stock like AMZN where most brokerages have no shares to lend and the MMs will drop the sucker 5% without an uptick it is the only way to play the game if you can ever get that initial short established. Regards, DWW