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To: Gary Clarke who wrote (1883)	10/12/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: Q.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2506

Gary, to play the tax loss selling, I usually look for stocks that are down a lot and that are owned primarily by small investors. That means stocks that are: * low RS * small cap stocks * with low institutional ownership. The market as a whole is weighted more heavily toward stocks with exactly the opposite description: large cap stocks with high institutional ownership, and these have a much higher RS. I don't know how much the movement of the market as a whole, up or down, will impact the low RS/small cap stocks during the tax loss selling season. Any opinions?