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Strategies & Market Trends : CAVALRY'S SHORT BUSTERS - MAGIC EIGHTBALLS PICKS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zx who wrote (268)	9/12/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Cavalry	Respond to of 1637

ag i think magic eightball will be adding abte to portfolio monday look at how heavily shorted abte is 33% of float, 2.4 million shares were added to short position between 6/8 and 8/8, might have gotten higher before covering began on friday. there appears to be a lot more covering to do for shorts over there Calendar Year 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 High Price 10.75 9.88 8.75 16.63 NA Low Price 6.38 4.88 4.06 6.50 NA Year End Price 6.88 7.50 7.25 6.64 NA High P/E 68.47 NM NM 136.27 NA Low P/E 40.61 NM NM 53.28 NA Year End P/E 43.79 NM NM 54.43 NA Dividend Yield 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 NA Price Performance Period Actual (%) vs. S&P 500 (%) Rank In Industry Industry Rank 4 Week -68.1 -64.6 0 55 13 Week -84.0 -82.1 1 58 26 Week -65.3 -63.5 3 47 52 Week -68.3 -70.0 9 53 YTD -56.8 -57.3 7 60 Note:ÿPercentile Rank Ranges 0 to 99, with 99 = Best Short Interest Month SharesMil)%Outs.%FloatDays 08/10/98 2.712 27.191 33.073 4.367 07/08/98 1.425 14.287 17.378 1.957 06/08/98 0.334 3.349 4.073 1.028 05/08/98 0.327 3.279 3.988 0.512 cav

To: zx who wrote (268)	9/12/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: Cavalry	Respond to of 1637

i always asked myself who would be dumb enough to short dell well from this chart the answer is practically no one shorts dell and lives to tell about it, no shorts at all 3% of float of dell is shorted. dell's price rises due to demand not a squeeze, great company one of best ever if not the best. Short Interest Month Shares(Mil)%Outs %Float Days 08/10/98 16.662 2.632 3.419 0.872 07/08/98 28.128 4.444 5.771 2.133 06/08/98 33.378 5.273 6.848 1.734 05/08/98 26.837 4.240 5.506 2.025 cav