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


To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (15824)11/29/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: Dante Sinferno  Respond to of 18691
 
<<likely prevent us from being able to profit from the eventual
crash in the Internet stocks>>

...and accelerate the crash as well without shorts to cushion
the fall.

Rob



To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (15824)11/29/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18691
 
Roger

Restricting shorting of stocks seems like a similar tactic used in foreign capital markets recently like Hong Kong and Malaysia where the exchange rates were "restricted" to prevent any speculation in currencies aand hence slow down volatility.

Gordon