William Dickens wrote:

>      This possibility was made all too clear to me when I took a $20,000 short 
>position in Amazon.com - - a year too early.  

Why didn't you take a series of smaller short positions instead?  You
could have held a $1000 short position for twenty times as long, no?

-- 
                        Prof. Bryan Caplan                
       Department of Economics      George Mason University
        http://www.bcaplan.com      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  "Smerdyakov suddenly raised his eyes and smiled.  'Why I smile 
   you must understand, if you are a clever man,' he seemed to say."     
                   Fyodor Dostoyevsky, *The Brothers Karamozov*

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