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

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (13571)	9/9/1998 8:16:00 PM
From: Brad Bolen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Shorted ELNK. For same reasons many short internut stocks...but this one is much more thinly traded, and a small bit of bad sentiment can drive it down fast. B.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (13571)	9/9/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18691

How is ALTIF managing to fool Kerr-McGhee into doing JV testing along with SIU? How did Bre-X fool Newmont Mining into believing they had billions of dollars worth of gold in Indonesia?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (13571)	9/16/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Marconi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Hello Papaya King: Caution. Check with Kerr-McGee about any testing. They may or may not acknowledge it. But what they acknowledge is reliable. I would not want to rely on representations of ALTIF about a major company 'testing' their equipment, due to concerns about promotional comments that lead to overly generous thoughts. Major corporations will test equipment--for evaluation purposes, generally under non-disclosure agreements. That involves people and is serious. A demo by a firm is not usually serious, any more than a sales presentation and having a corporate member in the audience. Paper evaluations are usually a first step in corporations, usually non-confidential, then it may escalate to confidential, then to in plant or on-site pilot tests. The engineers of the company need to understand the technology, how it works, and often want data on real samples before they can reasonably assess the merit of claims for a device. It is also possible for merits to be overlooked by the presenting firm. My past experience in technology assessments has been that devices using well known and long used mechanisms, but astounding claims, are generally spuriously based. Be cautious and work with real information and data to evaluate claims. Best regards, m