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To: Tom K. who wrote (12094)	12/23/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: Victoria Walley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14162

Tom, may I ask what broker you use? Some of the deep discounters don't allow selling naked puts, even if cash-secured. I'd like to expand the option tools I use and that would be my next step, but I need to find a reasonably priced broker that will allow it. Thanks, Vicki

To: Tom K. who wrote (12094)	12/23/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Herm	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14162

Hi Tom, I'm interested in hearing about your approach to investing approach via PUTs. Correct me if I'm wrong, there does not seem to be much dialog on that aspect of the option spectrum. Yet, there are some golden opportunities we are not considering since the dialog on this forum is on covered calls. Yet, we all know that there are times when the PUTs action is the right place to be while we wait for the CC trigger points ala WINs. After all, as a stock goes up and sideways, those PUTs buyers are losing their money. There is no shame in CCers making it from both ends! :-) So, Tom! Answers to some hard info would be great. It would raise all of our knowledge leve and continue to add dimension to WINs. We want all folks to make money on this forum along with make new friends and have a good time. Others are welcome to add to the dialog and in the end I will try to summarize into somekind of knowledge base. Example: 1. What do you normally use as your technical indicator(s) to determine a stock is bottomed out? 2. What type of stocks do you look for and where? Have any web sites we can check out? 3. How do you determine how many PUTs to sell. Are you naked or do you have cash to back up the PUTs? 4. Do you average down the stock if PUT to or do you go naked on PUTs in which you have no stake in the stock itself? 5. How often do they PUT it to you and why is that? 6. What kind of ROI do you experience on say a round of PUTs? 7. Can you describe the mechanics of what really happens when they PUT it to you! What does the brokerage do. In other words, how do you settle the exercised PUT. We are really picking your brains and experience on this one! We may have to write another chapter in WINs for everybody. Thanks Tom. Take your time!

To: Tom K. who wrote (12094)	12/28/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Andrew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14162

Thank you for sharing your approach. I was wondering though, have you been practicing it for a long time? How has it worked in steep market declines like in 1987 or 89? To me, it sounds like you have managed company risk with the RSI and BB, but may be left open with market risk. How would you react to a steep market decline of 10-20%? Would take the loss or average down? I like the WINS approach, have had some success in the past but in this market I have been a better stock picker than CCer. Even though I have been trying to CC at a BB high the stock goes higher and I get called out. Recent examples are I2 and EDS. With I2 the stock surge has been unbelievable. Maybe I should have learned earlier that this was a bad CC candidate.