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Technology Stocks : Altera -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Martin who wrote (2013)	4/16/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: Lucinos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2389

Thanks for your web links. For my opinion, there are many ways to short the stock. You may short against your holding, borrow shares from brokers, and sell your stocks covered to wait for an re-entry point. Also, you may short the stock by selling covered and uncovered calls. The number listed on the web usually only tells you the amount of open "uncovered shorts". It does not necessarily indicate the other types of shorts. Anyway, we will probably never know the reason why people wanted to buy ALTR yesterday (Thu). They can easily get a better price today. There must be some untold reason behind it. I think one of the possible reason is the broker is asking them to maintain their margin of their account. Lucinos