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To: F Robert Simms who wrote (7471)	10/28/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	of 44573

<The lower risk is a factor. If I loose all of my money then I can't play the game.> Understandable. What about the Mini? Still too much risk considering the longer term posturing of the Net? Understand; I'm trying to reconcile why, considering the fluctuation in the Options and with experience in the Sector (I traded OEX almost exclusively for a year before abandoning it for the Futures once the SnP 100 split), why would one try to trade a High Vol instrument where the advantage is low risk, low return vs an instrument for which it appears the Net was designed...or rather, for which it is more in line with the parameters. After all, if the Net tells you to go long the easy thing is to buy the Mini, for example. On the other hand, you really have to take another step with the Option. A step which would define for you whether or not the Option is Theoretically overpriced and thus a wasted investment. Perhaps I'm getting too deep with this and should just buy/sell based on the signals, I don't know. A year trading OEX made me cautious.

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