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To: HairBall who wrote (46541)	4/15/2000 5:58:00 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Thand LG. By the way there is some technical discussion on the porch today. I didn't buy on margin. I have successfully until the last few days used margin capacity to sell puts, always carefully thought out and below a reasonable trading range. Those puts as you can imagine have gone haywire--JDSU, SEBL, BRCM (I already bought back some others)--and they, combined with reduced margin capacity because QCOM is a major holding for me, have put me in the penalty box. Admittedly a small penalty box but it has never happened to me before and I'm upset. I was able to repair pretty gracefully until Friday (covered calls, or selling some stuff). Now I'm wanting to get enuf margin capacity to buy them back and repair. May 100s on sebl, June 100s and 110 on JDSU, for example.