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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TonyM who wrote (13194)	4/23/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: AlienTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43080

>>Hey, no Guido jokes. One of my brothers in Chicago is named Guido, the other is Silvio. (Of course I am Antonio.) :)<< Well I could tell you who I am but then I would have to flash that thingy at you and fry a few brain cells. This just hit me.. usually I aint too bright, after having the thingy flashed at me during testing so many times. (DAYTRADER) Some of the Internet's biggest names are due to release quarterly results next week. Starting the week off will be online auctioneer eBay (EBAY), followed by America Online (AOL) on Tuesday and Amazon.com (AMZN) on Wednesday. As the table shows, each of these companies exceeded Wall Street expectations last quarter, and are generally expected to do the same this quarter. And as the "Closing Prices" column demonstrates, each of the stocks (excluding MindSpring), rallied following the release of fiscal Q4 numbers. MindSpring did, however, rise 7 points the day before earnings were released. (The "Closing Price" data are based on closing quotes on the day before earnings were released, the day of earnings and the day after earnings were reported. Watching the price action in shares of CNET Inc (CNET 143 3/4 +24) and Go2Net (GNET 184 3/4 +7 1/4) over the past two sessions reminds us to remind our readers just how important it is to anticipate events. Yesterday, CNET and GNET rallied 14 1/4 points and 29 3/8 points respectively, as traders positioned themselves in the stocks ahead of the report of quarterly results. Those who held overnight got a quick ride of 35 1/4 points on CNET and 21 1/2 points on GNET, before profit-taking hit. Those individuals who did not purchase the stock until this morning weren't able to get in until $148 11/16 and $196 7/8 (opening prices) and, if still holding, have possibly seen their positions fall under water... While it is impossible to predict when a company will receive an upgrade or issue a press release that will ignite a run in the stock, it doesn't take much leg work to find out when a company is due to report earnings --one need only make a visit to Briefing.com's Tech Earnings Calendar. There was certainly no guarantee that either CNET or GNET would report blow-out quarterly results, but as Briefing.com's Earnings Calendar Archives show, both companies have a recent history of dramatically exceeding Wall Street estimates (archives available to Briefing.com subscribers). Throw in the fact that both stocks were trading at a level which might trigger management to announce stock splits, not hard to imagine why traders were piling into the two stocks yesterday.... Other events which one can anticipate that often ignite rallies in Internet stocks are: the initiation of coverage of a company following its IPO (usually 30 days after IPO is completed), the actual execution of a stock split (readers can find split dates on the Briefing.com Upcoming Splits page), the upcoming IPO of an Internet play (companies which hold large positions in these IPOs are usually bid up sharply based on potential value of their equity stake). Splits next month Company Symbol Ratio Payable Ex-Date Announced Optionable Laforza Automobiles LFZA 2-1 May 01 May 03 Mar 23 American Eagle Outfitters AEOS 2-1 May 03 May 04 Mar 29 Yes Bank of Marin California BMRC 3-2 May 03 May 04 Apr 08 4 Kids Entertainment KIDE 3-2 May 03 May 04 Mar 29 InfoSpace.com INSP 2-1 May 04 May 05 Apr 07 Priority Healthcare PHCC 3-2 May 04 May 05 Apr 07 Price Communications PR 5-4 May 04 n/a Apr 14 Yes Comcast Corp CMCSK 2-1 May 05 n/a Mar 03 Yes FDX Corp FDX 2-1 May 06 May 07 Mar 18 Yes AboveNet Comms ABOV 2-1 May 07 May 10 Mar 30 Security First Tech SONE 2-1 May 07 May 10 Apr 14 Yes Ohio Valley Banc OVBC 5-4 May 10 May 11 Apr 07 Qualcomm QCOM 2-1 May 10 May 11 Apr 14 Yes RealNetworks RNWK 2-1 May 10 May 11 Apr 20 Yes Valassis Communications VCI 3-2 May 12 May 13 April 05 Yes VISX, Inc VISX 2-1 May 12 May 13 Apr 14 Yes Cox Comms COX 2-1 May 13 n/a Mar 18 Yes Conestoga Enterprises CENI 3-2 May 14 May 17 Jan 26 Gemstar International GMST 2-1 May 14 May 17 Apr 12 Yes Knight/Trimark Group NITE 2-1 May 14 May 17 Apr 21 Yes Net.B@nk, Inc NTBK 3-1 May 14 May 17 Apr 13 Yes theglobe.com TGLO 2-1 May 14 May 17 Apr 08 Aon Corp AOC 3-2 May 17 May 18 Mar 19 Yes Mellon Bank MEL 2-1 May 17 May 18 Apr 20 Yes Tellabs TLAB 2-1 May 17 n/a Apr 21 Altera Corp ALTR 2-1 May 19 May 20 Apr 21 Yes CDW Computer CDWC 2-1 May 19 May 20 Apr 21 Yes First Georgia Hldg FGHC 3-2 May 19 May 20 Apr 15 ISS Group ISSX 2-1 May 19 May 20 Apr 01 Metromedia Fiber Network MFNX 2-1 May 19 n/a Apr 13 Yes Concentric Network Corp CNCX 2-1 May 21 May 24 Mar 29 Yes Paychex PAYX 3-2 May 21 May 24 Apr 08 Yes Stewart Information Services STC 2-1 May 21 May 24 Mar 15 ZiaSun Tech ZSUN 2-1 May 21 n/a Apr 20 Qwest Communications QWST 2-1 May 24 n/a Apr 21 Yes AmSouth Bancorp ASO 3-2 May 24 May 25 Apr 15 Yes Cadbury Schweppes plc CSG 2-1 May 24 n/a Mar 29 Yes Old National Bancorp OLDB 3-2 May 24 May 25 Apr 15 Int'l Business Machines IBM 2-1 May 26 May 27 Jan 26 Yes CMGI, Inc CMGI 2-1 May 27 n/a Mar 17 Yes American River AMRB 3-2 May 28 n/a Apr 22 Amer Pwr Conversion APCC 2-1 May 28 n/a Feb 10 Yes Citigroup C 3-2 May 28 n/a Apr 20 Yes CNET, Inc CNET 2-1 May 28 n/a Apr 21 Yes EMC Corp EMC 2-1 May 28 Jun 01 Feb 25 Yes John Wiley & Sons JWA 2-1 May 28 Jun 01 Mar 11 VeriSign, Inc. VRSN 2-1 May 28 n/a Mar 31 Yes Panhandle Royalty PANRA 3-1 (a) n/a Feb 26 TranSwitch TXCC 3-2 (b) n/a Apr 14 Yes The Federal Agricultural Mtge Co FAMCK 3-1 (c) (c) Apr 19 Go2Net GNET 2-1 (d) n/a Apr 21 Yes