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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.invest
Subject: Re: new issues and such
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 20:52:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 20:52:31 1986
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>From: mfidelma@bbncc5.UUCP (Miles Fidelman)
>
>I would think that by the very nature of the net, it should be possible to
>spot investment opportunities earlier than the general public. Excluding
>insider information, such things as new technologies, local developments
>(e.g. a local construction project is announced), etc. can provide good
>opportunities if known about early. Of particular personal interest is
>knowledge of initial public offerings whose stock will take off, early enough
>to reserve a block of the offer.

I know it sounds contentious and illogical, but I was just reading some
book that indicated that a lot of that stuff above *could* be construed
as insider info, I think the example was something like "I get off a
plane in Des Moines and from my window I can see that the xyz company
is breaking ground for a new construction site, I know that xyz co.'s
stock is low because they're supposed to be broke, I call my broker
and buy 1,000 shares"...insider trading" (!)

Don't waste your 'breath' with what makes sense to you personally, does
anyone know the guidlines? Would announcing the info to the net make
it not insider trading? I know that it's a lot like tax evasion, the
laws are rather illogical and easy to break and the chance of getting
caught are rather small, esp for the small, private investor, but they
do something horrible now (like 3X the profit plus fines/jail etc.)

I for one would be in favor of discussing these things and whatever
it was he had in mind (dry trading experiments.) People are very
secretive about their ideas on stock predictions, I guess cause they
either figure they'll use it or don't want to be caught wrong in
public. Maybe we should have a moratorium on criticism and all try
out in public some predictions just to see what people think.

Here's one: C-Cor electronics (OTC) has been trading around 6 for over
two years now. They supply parts to a lot of networking companies
(among others, broadband in general I think), they should grow with
networks and cable tv and are probably already under-valued, I know
for example Ungermann/Bass buys parts from them. That however is not
enough info, just an observation (maybe they are horribly in debt?)
Anyone know more info? I believe Barron's or Fortune recently listed
them as an unusually cheap buy, but it didn't change their price.

Of course, anyone who buys C-Cor based on that paragraph is a fool.
I own no shares of C-Cor.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University