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- From: rravi@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (ramesh.ravi)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Condemned by Barron's--Is it significant????
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.210226.11214@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:02:26 GMT
- References: <calinski.725123521@calspan.com> <Bzq8uH.9E2@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bzq8uH.9E2@cs.uiuc.edu>, watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
- > calinski@calspan.com (Peter Calinski) writes:
- >
- > >I'm not a regular reader of Barron's but, in the past year, I know of two
- > >stocks, Marvel and Conseco, that were bashed by Barron's. Of course, in
- > >both cases, the stock fell a considerable amount. However, also in both cases,
- > >within a year, both subsequently hit new highs.
- >
- > >Does anyone know of other cases where Barron's screws up like this?
- >
- > >Do they always get it wrong? Looks like a way to make money big time.
- >
- > >I heard on Monday that Barron's knocked another stock (I can't remember the
- > >name but I think it started with an M. It dropped something like 8 to $24).
- >
- > >Comments please.
- >
- > >Pete
- > >calinski@calspan.com
- >
- > I heard that one of the writers of "Heard in the Street" was
- > prosecuted a few years back for insider trading. Apparently
- > he was accepting money for advance information.
- >
- > Talking about suspicious patterns, SoftwareTools got a big
- > boost because of a plug by the manager of the Acorn Fund,
- > in this weeks Barrons. The boost occurred over 2 days --
- > the Friday (i.e BEFORE Barrons comes out) and Monday.
- >
- > You can't sell short except on an uptick. I doubt that there
- > would be an uptick after the article from Barrons. So,
- > you couldn't really make money off of it. Actually
- > the stock might open immediately at a lower
- > price.
- >
- > On the other hand, if you could get the information on
- > the Friday before Barron's came out, then you definitely
- > could make money big-time (which is what I'm guessing
- > happened with Software Tools).
- >
- > -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-
- Actually Software Toolworks went up most of the last week because of the
- recommendation from Dan Dorfman from CNBC. I think he recommended sometime
- in the beginning of the last week and the TWRX went up from around 5 dollars
- to 7 dollars and after the recommendation in Barrons this Saturday it went
- up another 1 1/8 on Monday before it backed off 1/2 yesterday.
-
- Ramesh Ravi
- ramesh@nra0.att.com
- (908)615-5082
-