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To: Tom Hua who wrote (1392)	5/20/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: B. A. Marlow	Respond to of 2743

The "facts," Tom: You "grossed" $131.00 and "lost" $12.50 shorting PCLN. Let's see, per 1,000 shares short, that's "gross revenue" of $131,000.00 and current market value of $142,500.00, for a "loss" of $11,500.00, or -8.78 percent. At PCLN, you could buy a lot of airline tickets with that... Or is there some "new math" according to which you figure you've made a profit on this trade? In all fairness, you may have shorted some PCLN at as much as $165.00, so there may still be time to cover "successfully." Wouldn't dawdle, though... BAM techstocks.com