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Shorting stocks: Broken stocks - Analysis

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2056	E*Trade will not accept a short order for VINF. I have an order in for ENML but	Dale Baker	-	12/22/1998
2055	I have read through John's original post naming the long BTIM arb play. TH	RockyBalboa	-	12/22/1998
2054	John, <<There are lots of arbitrage schemes to play this.Here's one:	chester lee	-	12/21/1998
2053	geigartt, <<but if you short the rights and they are not exercised and e	chester lee	-	12/21/1998
2052	<<What happens if the rights are not exercised? They are simply cancelled	Geigartt	-	12/21/1998
2051	ENML Hello John, Did you notice that ENML announced a convertable today? edga	Harpo	-	12/21/1998
2050	John, re BTIM <i>There was somebody on one of these threads who was shor	RockyBalboa	-	12/21/1998
2049	Christian, re. BTIM's rights offering: <<the ratio is 20:1 here. It	Q.	-	12/21/1998
2048	John, thank you for you info here. My take is that BTIM should tank a bit on t	RockyBalboa	-	12/20/1998
2047	I have had excellent results from a shoot-first, ask-questions-later approach t	Yamakita	-	12/20/1998
2046	I will see if E*Trade has any tomorrow and let you know.	Dale Baker	-	12/20/1998
2045	VINF is also a POS hyped by Stock Genie. Finding shares has been tough though.	xcr600	-	12/20/1998
2044	Take a look at VINF and tell me if it is a ripe target. They have reached Seri	Dale Baker	-	12/20/1998
2043	BTIM's rights offering looks interesting: A rights offering is an offering	Q.	-	12/20/1998
2042	AXXS is the company of the stock detective, K. Lichtman. We can ask him whether	RockyBalboa	-	12/14/1998
2041	There is limited downsize potental, with support at $4. A couple of others th	ozzi	-	12/14/1998
2040	UQM - an ideal tax loss selling candidate? Here's one I turned up today: U	Q.	-	12/14/1998
2039	Geigartt: re. the two midcaps you identified: CBTSY is 92% owned by 252 instit	Q.	-	12/11/1998
2038	John: Re Tax loss selling: I just stumbled over these so I don't know	Geigartt	-	12/10/1998
2037	Christian, re. <<Hmm, does it make sense to make loose the market cap c	Q.	-	12/9/1998
2036	Hi, Professor John G: Your screen for low-beat stocks is very interesting. May	pcyhuang	-	12/8/1998
2035	John, I apprechiate the list and found lots for new names besides our well know	RockyBalboa	-	12/8/1998
2034	Yamakita, my shorts that turned up on this list are MCAR and, like you, TERA.	Q.	-	12/8/1998
2033	Thanks for posting your results John. I'm glad my TERA made the list . . .	Yamakita	-	12/8/1998
2032	Here are the stocks for the Dec 98 low RS / neg cash flow screen. I did this sc	Q.	-	12/8/1998

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