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Strategies & Market Trends : Shorting stocks: Mechanical aspects -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Meyer who wrote (74)	8/2/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Banjoman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 172

>>Man I hope you covered in time. <and in fact added BTL to my real money shorts on 7/13, and it has fallen 10% since then).> If not, that was a big ouch. << Yep. Big ouch. Guess I'll have to go back to avoiding stocks with dividend yields above 3% :-) However, the entire short portfolio has still done well in spite of the big ouch and other small mistakes - up 10% in less than two months with the market flat. OK for a mindless system. Don P.S. I wondered if anyone here would notice that I mentioned that stock in my post. Oy vey.