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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3651)	11/5/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4634

I have set up a bear portfolio in 10/98 on SI. When I watch both the initial selling and covering prices I baulk no longer at my early coverings. All of the prices have risen by a say 20-110% amount over the entry levels, even in financial stock like Americredit or AMMB. In the very contradiction to that, I shorted a small position in Andrea electronics near day's high, after there were some head's up on the board. It worked, Andrea lost almost a buck since. C.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3651)	11/5/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4634

Bill, I have heard a theory that a portion of the page views on some of the Internet stocks like YHOO are generated by automatic JAVA programs running on many PC's which view a page every view seconds for the sole purpose of jacking up the page views. Probably not done by the companies themselves, but by investors trying to boost the page view count and thus the stock price. It would only take a few thousand computers to generate millions of page views and ad click throughs. Do you think this "page view inflation" could be real?