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To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (6799)	4/21/2000 10:46:00 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 8096

Damn! I've been obsessing about this as I've been cleaning bathrooms. <gg> You don't remember something about the fact that, due to the interest rate factor (?) in Black Scholes, calls are skewed toward being more expensive than puts? I wish I still had my notebook from the conference. i'll have to ask salini to send it to me. This was a topic on the first day of the conference. I've been reading with Tim O. and ed have been saying about synthetic shorts. I would think that the market's bias upward would indeed make a synthetic short a risky trade. Hey, shouldn't you be packing for your time in Paradise? <g>