shush!
oops. i sympathize, though. back in those days, i did my first short ever - right over xmas break. idc (now idcc), then also known as "baby qualcomm", which was getting much hype and pump and dump at the time for the very reason that it (more legimately) took off recently (that ericcson case). december 2000, a vertical spike from 10 to 75, which is just about where i shorted. and had some sleepless nights until it quickly drifted back down. covered for a nice profit, though would have been better if i had waited longer. but back then .... well, every story moved a stock. sorta like now.
<waxing nostalgiac>
ah, those days when i was a boolish believer. it was more innocent. i actually bought and held corl back then, from about $2 in early 2000 because i believed that their linux sidewinder boxes would take off, and got to sell it for $20 (would have been $40 if i had been a TRUE believer). and rhat, which i bought on the open market on the morning of its ipo at ~45; hit 90 (was it the same day? if not, soon thereafter), and all my friends said "sell! sell!" but i stupidly held on and utimately got stopped out at 275.
i wish i could be like that now, but ... oh well. i can with gold miners, though.
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