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


To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (12301)8/2/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Kip518  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18691
 
But it is possible that Datek intentionally stopped granting margin during the "crash" late Friday, don't know for sure.

If that is true and if other houses started doing the same, IMO, that would have ominous implications for both shorts & longs. Perhaps you'll get another opporunity to test the idea in another "mini-crash" shortly.