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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Woas who wrote (15480)	11/14/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

As far I know, Datek and Etrade seem to be good on "new" shorts. For old shorts (SRCM,DTLN, ZONA, CCSI, KTEL, ENMD) Datek is useless. Also I ve heard that Dreyfus has a nice list of shortable stocks but I can't prove. Had no problems shorting INFO, MCOM and especially geron the whole time. Still, for GMAI nobody has a found anything as I hear. C.

To: Steve Woas who wrote (15480)	11/14/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: surelock	Respond to of 18691

> I would also like to what broker people used to short GERN the other day when it was at the top. All the brokers I called had none for shorting. Steve, When this happens, consider puts. Limited downside, no worries of being called, liquid market and quick execution when the stock is trading heavily. In this case, I bought Nov. $20 puts. Percentage returns greater than on the stock. On the negative side, of course, the timing issue. Surelock Homes