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Technology Stocks : PSFT - Fiscal 1998 - Discussion for the next year -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Elmer who wrote (3115)10/21/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Wigglesworth  Respond to of 4509
 
<< I'm not smart enough (or courageous enough) to short stocks >>

My brokerage house sets the following minimum requirements for shorting:
IQ: that of pig
courage: that of chicken

Peter Lynch has the following observation: some people get interested in the shorting idea by looking at their portfolios and realizing that if they had been short instead of long all these years, they'd be rich!