its stock price may jump to $50, and if you hold -100 of them, you'll now have to pay $5000 to close out your position, and you're in the hole big time.

Does anyone have a link to a site or some docs that explain, to a putz like me, what all this various financial wizardry is? I've seen shorting briefly explained here, but what about kiting, selling on margin, etc, and various other techniques and scams? I'd like to know but I don't have the inclination to read entire books about this stuff, or become a CPA or something. Later, B -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml