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To: shasta23 who wrote (8560)	9/8/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12039

. One thing for sure is that i learned the importance of the market. I was wondering why i was having difficulties making the profits i always read about until i looked at the chart of the Russ2000(i was trading exclusively small caps all year). Now i have I was doing the same thing. Now I look at market health first and then individual issues second... Sean

To: shasta23 who wrote (8560)	9/9/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: David R. Evans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12039

Hello Stefan, Yes, I play the short side using Puts..... Now, when you talk about the short side you open up a brand new ballgame..... Here is my outlook on it. If I want to play STRONG MOVERS on the up-side wouldn't I want to do the same on the short side??? I would think yes so how do we know the strong movers???? On the up-side we look for strong companies that are in a strong up-trend. If we reverse that logic we would look for weak companies that are in a strong down-trend. Does this make sense??? I would not want to be out there shorting Dell when it decides to reverse and continue it's strong move up.... Same goes for the Internet stocks.... You may THINK they are over-valued but the reality is Mr. Market does not care what you think.... There is a lot of money to be made on the short side and there are many out there who can short Dell, LU, IBM and the like BUT most on these Boards are NOT THEM!!! Leave that game to the pros who know how to do it... Dave Evans goinvest.com