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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna

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To: William H Huebl who wrote (21827)	7/18/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) of 94695

Bill, Ya it's not a sure bet. I have put that list I gave you in a separate portfolio to see what they do. I know I don't have the bucks it takes to make up enough diversity and to play that 2nd 25 of the Nifty Fifty..as to weight them even the lesser would have to be 100 shares.. But it just hit me I could have played calls ( leaps ) just out of the money at the time on most of that group and while I haven't down loaded their option tables I'm inclined to think the gains percentage wise would have exceeded by far the gains had I had the portfolio of stocks. The rub there is that my commissions on options are higher than stocks & generally makes me want to buy 5 contracts at least. That first contract is were most of the expense is. With that kind of leverage I sure wouldn't want to get caught in a BK, but I don't think we are going to have one now, not before they get the S.S. money into the market..and it seems that is a sure thing now, in fact the news of it could be a big factor propelling this market up. Jim

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