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To: Marty who wrote (561)	11/4/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 857

" I still think that they represent a better source of buy trades at a sooner point than longs represent for eventual sale trades." Well, whether you believe it or not you are incorrect, and your submission has been proven to be false. "There may well be some patient shorts but I don't think that there are a lot of them and I maintain that their average holding period is a fraction of the average long holding period. Short selling is an inherently short term trade by it's very nature. One can not even claim long term capital gains treatment on a short sell. Of course you seem to forget that there is only a fraction of the number of short shares held compared to long shares. I'll see if I can dig up the documentation on the study to which I refer. Barb