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To: Jill who wrote (911)	1/10/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8096

Jill, here is how I did it today, I'm sure you do it the same or similar. I exported my MSN portfolio as a tab delimited file, opened it with excel, then manually put in the (b+a)/2 as suggested by Poet or Rose, forget which one. I got the b&a's from my Etrade. It was a pain, but once you do it the first time it is not hard to just change the current price, it only affects those few options that have not traded for a while. It really made a difference in my net worth, since I had some DIM Qcom leaps that had not traded since the runup. Same with GMST calls, they were just sitting there at like 9 when the b/s is up around 17 or so. I think the MMs are really playing around with those. Even though the b/a is up there, and there was a trade this morning, they show the trade at around 9 or so. That is total BS. I think they are trying to prevent a runup until the money managers finish adding GMST to their Nasdaq 100 index holdings. JMHO. Gee, I'm starting to feel like Voltaire on thse MMs :-)

To: Jill who wrote (911)	1/10/2000 5:49:00 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8096

I think Rose's speadsheet is the best idea, but knowing the degree of our joint technical knowledge of computers, I'm worried about running into trouble and being too embarrassed to ask for help. I sold some JDSU and QCOM calls I bought last week into the rally today, trying to raise cash to exercise more QCOM and JDSU Jan calls. I also dumped ICGE and ICGE calls today, as the market's getting flooded with shares coming out of lockup. I actually bought a few ICGE puts to take advantage of further downward pressure in the short term.