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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (78)	12/22/1998 7:57:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

You laugh, I saw a guy get a margin call today because he was fooling with UBID and forgot he was not on margin! You know why the MMs are changing the margin requirements, right? If you are a MM and you get 2000 orders over the Internet to buy some stock, and you don't own it long, you have to short the stock to cover the buy orders. The MMs don't like that concept. At all.

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (78)	12/22/1998 10:15:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3543

KJC, re:"even Fort Knox will only be able to short 10 shares." I see that you have read my profile #personalprofile-4232770 and now know my Location. I must say that I take issue with your assessment our ability to raise margin money.While Gold has not exactly skyrocketed in the past few decades, it is still worth $300+/- an ounce. Thus, even at 100% margin, I can short a boatload of say, Amazombie, since I have a considerable amount of gold.