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To: Lucretius who wrote (5711)12/1/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Thean  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14427
 
LT - I joined you and unloaded NBR and SDC near the close today. Still have DO short but may cover it tomorrow. If nothing else, this group has approach one of their prior two low's and are due for a technical rebound anyway. However, if they bounce irrationally high and crude price keeps falling, I will reshort them more.

Alski - don't know anything about the buyout rumour for WDC but I want to tell you another discipline story today. I started the day had MXTR short limit at 13 7/8. After the early downdip had gone nowhere but turned around, I canceled the short order. MXTR closed at 15 1/2, its 52 wk high. MXTR together with all the DD's, from component makers to disk makers, all got a tremendous boost today that would never have been predicted on the chart. I looked at the same charts on all of them last night before singling out MXTR as a short. The buyout of WDC by QNTM or SEG is entirely possible but I'm going to stay out of this group for a while because their irratic internut-like trading pattern is not giving me any advantage.

INPR - actually it closed at its immediate resistence today. Its next resistence, which is more significant, is at 6 7/8. Its intraday chart is showing good strength. Would I scalp it? Not sure.

TWLB - sold 1/5 of my position and will most probably sell the rest at open tomorrow. Waiting to roll over my NBTY Dec 10 put to Jan 10.

SEV - it closed outside of its lower BB today. Technicals says it will not close lower tomorrow. It should gap up tomorrow but as long as there is no news out and crude remains under pressure, SEV is not going anywhere but down. I am prepared to nibble down on this, with a completely different strategy than my scalping technique.

PRMS - being a retail stock, its inability to snap back today was a bit of a surprise to me. However, I'm monitoring this closely. Near term support is 12 - 12 1/2, resistence is 14 7/8.

Overall, the steep drop we had yesterday did not get confirmed today. As I suspect, the amount of money waiting to rush in to buy any dip is so great I don't think we have seen the maximum bubble yet. LT, I hope you ate your bird yesterday because if you hadn't it resurrected and walked away from you today! <GG>



To: Lucretius who wrote (5711)12/1/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: waverider  Respond to of 14427
 
One last note. I too sold my DO puts and have a tight stop loss on my GIFI short...the damn shares were so hard to get I'll let the market decide what to do. Down more, great. Up, I'm out with a profit...what a concept.

My stop loss on PRMS didn't get pulled today...but it remains at
13 5/8ths. Same as above.

On a brighter note, I mentioned HS a few days ago here and picked up a large chunk for my retirement account. Went up 20% today. PE still around 8. Still a good buy. Look into it.

Adios,
<H>



To: Lucretius who wrote (5711)12/2/1998 6:08:00 AM
From: accountclosed  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14427
 
I have been following your posts for a little while, but not long enough to understand your NE position. Can you explain to me your short of NE in light of your profile which says Favorite stocks: oil & gas drillers (currently don't own any of them though). Is this an industry that you follow particularly closely and NE was a special case?

tia