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To: Danny who wrote (83596)	11/8/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Danny, congrats. We all have much to be thankful for. Perhaps I will tally this weekend? If it's still going by then, well let's hope I'm cash positive?

To: Danny who wrote (83596)	11/8/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

DLJdirect News Alert! triggered at 04:08 PM for symbol: AMZN U.S. Options -Amazon.com vols up into announcement U.S. Options -Amazon.com vols up into announcement CHICAGO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Implied volatility popped up Monday as call buyers entered and pushed up volume in options on Amazon.com Inc. <AMZN.O>. Implied vols for the November 80s rose to around 85 percent Monday afternoon, up some 10 vols points, after the company said it would make a "significant announcement" Tuesday morning regarding additions to its product line. "That's about right. It's up ... the front month is," said a market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange of implied volatility. "They are buying calls. There are buyers of the 75s, 80s, 85s and 90s." The market maker repeated market speculation about the nature of the announcement, which sparked the call buying. "Maybe they're hooking up with some major retailer or getting into software retailing," he said. "We don't know." Volume on Monday also increased. At 1445 CST/2045 GMT, more than 22,000 calls and 3,100 puts divided among the November 75, 80, 85 and 90 strikes had changed hands on the four options exchanges combined. "It (volume) moves around a lot," the market maker said. "One day we do 5,000 (contracts) and 20,000 the next." Busiest were the November 75 calls, which rose 6-11/16 to 7-7/8 on the American Stock Exchange on combined interexchange volume of roughly 10,850 and open interest of 13,909. Shares of Amazon.com were up 14 at 78-15/16 on Nasdaq market volume of 31.3 million. 408-8750 chicago.derivatives.newsroom@reuters.com)) REUTERS Rtr 16:08 11-08-99