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To: carl a. mehr who wrote (13274)	12/14/1997 8:19:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (5) of 70976

carl: re: your brokerage firm may change your margin requirement I didn't realize they would do that. I thought the margin requirement was a fixed industry standard, at 35%. I thought if I had no more than 1/3 of my stocks bought on margin (67% equity), this would provide a adequate buffer. I didn't realise that margin requirements were a moving target. How about this: instead of being 100% in AMAT, spread it out among INTC, Novellus, KLA-tencor, and AMAT? Is my broker smart enough to know that this really doesn't decrease my risk of a margin call, because all these stocks move together?

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