Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBCC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (2493)	1/10/1999 2:25:00 AM
From: Trippi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

AJ -- I'm not here to debate CBS buying Marketwatch --- as far as I'm concerned DBCC is strictly a momentum play -- and I will happily join you in the shorting after it runs up a bit more. However there is a flaw in your argument -- it would be insane for CBS to buy more of Marketwatch after the IPO -- because odds are MarketWatch will be insanely over valued after the IPO. Better CBS pay through the nose now at semi insane price than wait out the IPO -- that logic doesn't make much sense to me at all. As for NBC dumping MSNBC -- MSNBC's ratings have quadrupuled over last 9 months -- as a frequent guest on MSNBC and occasionally on the parent network -- I can tell you only that I doubt NBC is thinking at all about dumping MSNBC -- NBC is better positioned than either CBS or ABC on the WEB -- odds are its the parent networks that will not survive the next five years -- not their cable cousins and internet plays.

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (2493)	1/10/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: Ariella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Hi Christian -- you said it better than I did. Limit orders are for when you want to buy, stop losses are to protect you (hopefully) from a sudden downdraft in price. What I actually wanted to stress was that both involve specifying a specific price at which an ordering activity will take place. For my taste, this is almost always better than doing a market order. The discount brokers advertise their best prices and speediest confirmations when an investor places a market order. In the fast moving kinds of markets we have lately, especially on the NASDAQ and especially in the case of IPOs, market orders can be really dangerous to one's financial well-being. Regards, Ariella