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To: ahhaha who wrote (14345)	7/7/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: signist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

((You clowns still want to be short 30 July 15s? Hope so)) Is it really necessary to taint your informative post with sarcasm? You have important information we can learn from but your arrogant tone makes it hard to digest. Please do us a favor and lighten up. This stock is hard enough to deal with. Regards, John

To: ahhaha who wrote (14345)	7/8/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: John T. Harbaugh	Respond to of 42804

ahhaha: I've found your posts to be fascinating. Over the years, watching price movements and market action have often proved to be inscrutable. Please continue your commentary and thanks for your time. I'm all ears. --John H.

To: ahhaha who wrote (14345)	7/8/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: Bruce L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

Ahhaha: <<l. Yes>> Not without some difficulty, I think I understand your answer to "my most important question" to be that: Yes, it is a myth that optionable stocks tend -other things being equal- to gravitate on options expiration day to the nearest strike. Can you elaborate on this at all? Can you cite any studies? Any opinions other than your own? <<To make a market means you buy or sell when there isn't public offsetting action....It is the hardest thing in the world to allow yourself to be completely at the whim of the market....You are forced to go against what you know in your gut is wrong, but lo and behold, you end up making a ton of o' dough by implementing this obedience. It is the nature of valid contrary opinion. It's so contrary that only the market can force you into doing anything that dumb. Believe me, it is one of the hardest things to learn.>> I have the feeling of being in the presence of the Delpic Oracle; or of being one of the little people as Moses speaks to God; or of being a Jedi knight-trainee being instructed in the "force" by Yoda. Ahhaha, Sir: I have one final question. Why did you deign to ask me - who obviously doesn't understand the "mechanism of market making" and who is one of those SI"discussers" who "do not want to understand" - why and how it is that a MM would want to hold the price of an optionable stock to 15? Message 10413228