To: John S. Baker who wrote (6766 ) 1/6/1999 12:23:00 AM From: c-man Respond to of 8359
John, I agree with you that it is probable drakes is neither Lucretious nor A. Goldfinger to compare him against two historical, well-known ABTX shorts of past months. The posting styles of both Lucretious and Auric Goldfinger were self-confident, non-hypster, forward-looking, and ultimately dead-on right. Additionally, I don't think they actively pursued a disinformation strategy, nor got involved with media writers and fed information to them. They nailed the stock and presumably made money. They moved on, and never crowed about it from what I recall. I will always be looking for their input in the future with open ears. Separate issue - CLEARSTATION WENT GREEN ON ABTX TONIGHT. That's super news. Didn't hurt when the 13-day EMA crossed over the 50-day EMA, which I believe is what triggers a BUY signal for clearstation.com. Here are some Yahoo cross-posts that discuss this - post.messages.yahoo.com @m2.yahoo.compost.messages.yahoo.com @m2.yahoo.com I've got a few more shares I need to pick up this week to finalize my position, and the cash becomes available to me on Thursday to do it....so I am HOPEFUL, but DOUBTFUL, the stock will pause tomorrow. AM guessing I'll have to go out and fight the shorts in the open market for my shares...ironic as that is. abs/drake speculated on yahoo that this run might be due to the so-called january effect. Read on yahoo where jan effect is often attributed to IRA/401K buying, when these type funds are newly funded for the neaw year by investors wanting MAX investing time and thus fund them Jan 1st...if so, that presumably will place more ABTX into IRA and NON-SHORTABLE accounts....putting some undocumentable incremental pressure on the shorts. But the TA issue alone will propel this stock for a few days it appears to me...TA layperson that I am. I smell a gap up tomorrow, even given it softened right at the end of the day. Just a hunch. c-man