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To: JohnG who wrote (34027)	7/5/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: RoseCampion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Historical option price site. If you find one, we'll name it the "Read them and Weep Site of Lost Opportunities." Amen. Illustrative example: If you had the presence of mind to have invested, say, $10,000 in the (relatively) conservative LXWAR QCOM Jan2000 90 LEAPS calls at their all-time low of 2 1/8 (October 1999? Possibly was that recently...), you'd now be just a hairsbreadth away from a cool, even $1M in valuation (they're selling around $206 each right now). And assuming you held onto them for a year from purchase, they'd be long-term capital gains to boot. Not a bad day's work. Interestingly, the open interest on these is still ~550 contracts - certainly everyone who bought them didn't have a 100-bagger, but some folks clearly did very, very well with their big risks. hindsight is 20/20-ly, -Rose- PS: I've never found a historical options pricing site, either - would love to hear of anyone who knows of such.