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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (40496)12/22/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Lucretius  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
so do we buy the dip yet, some morons are actually selling stock this morning. Looks like a buying opp as always.



To: Knighty Tin who wrote (40496)12/22/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 132070
 
Mike, you saw this table in this week's Barrons.
What does it mean that AMZN has 42% public shares
sold short, and DELL 3, and MSFT 1?

Company Shares Out- Publicly Traded Float Public Shares
standing Shares Sold Short

@Home 115,073,000 35,647,000 31% 7%
Adobe 67,278,000 58,364,000 87 7
Amazon 50,234,000 17,712,000 35 42
AOL 225,946,000 193,390,000 86 9
brdcast 16,619,000 5,870,000 35 18
CNET 16,696,000 6,207,000 37 51
Dell 1,264,000,000 1,119,377,000 89 3
eBay 37,200,000 3,500,000 9 39
ElecArts 60,642,000 44,797,000 74 4
Excite 50,339,000 24,809,000 49 19
Intuit 55,850,000 47,129,000 84 3
Msoft 2,459,000,000 1,651,426,000 67 1
Netscape 96,417,000 66,957,000 69 5
TMP 26,928,000 8,559,000 32 14
VeriSign 22,616,000 11,006,000 49 2
Yahoo! 114,456,000 58,430,000 51 15
ZiffDvis100,000,000 25,800,000 26 1









To: Knighty Tin who wrote (40496)12/22/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
My rummy broker doesn't allow. Would love to sell a couple of puts on NEM. I'm changing after the first of the year. Didn't want to juggle more records than I have to already for tax time.