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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (17042)	1/14/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Don Westermeyer	Respond to of 18691

Looks like the media is starting to get down on analysts and their amazingly inaccurate estimates: smartmoney.com

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (17042)	1/15/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: space cadet	Respond to of 18691

Khalil, thanks for the list. I will check them out. I believe the risk/reward ratio is much more favorable for putting/shorting the boring stocks than the internuts/hi-techs. Plus slow thinking people such as myself can react more rationally to these slow moving turtles. Yup I too got out of hsy much too soon. I thought it had support at 65. Maybe we should start a thread on shorting the large cap boring low-tech stocks, as it doesn't seem there is such a thread. Shorting/putting is quite risky so any means of reducing that risk is worth investigating. I've been burned badly by shorting the hi-flyers. They do go down but only in very brief spurts, while hersey's for instance has been slowly collapsing for quite some time now. I noticed some of your picks like ko and g are famous "name" stocks. I prefer to avoid those if possible. I like the obscure stocks like herseys that no one follows. The time premiums are low as we mentioned. Only problem is it's you vs the specialist and you must put up with their half crooked games and ripoff tactics and you must always pay the full incredible ripoff spreads on the options.