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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (108025)	4/27/2000 4:24:00 AM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576380

Petz, SPITFIRE Brand name is DURON!!! DURON!!! "durare" meaning "to last," and "-on", meaning "unit," the AMD Duron processor name was selected because it conveys the attributes embodied by a product designed to prolong the life of a buyer's investment. AMD Duron Brand Name Selected for AMD's New Workhorse Processor biz.yahoo.com ____________ Goutama

To: Petz who wrote (108025)	4/27/2000 9:48:00 AM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 1576380

Re: The first problem is you are not really taking no margin risk. You are starting out at $50 margin and $32 equity. Thats only 39%. If your equity drops to 30%, you'll get a margin call from your broker. That could happen with as little as a $10 drop in AMD's price. You could sell some of the puts, but that would partially destroy the tax-advantage and the puts would only be up $2 on a $10 drop in AMD. John, If you have a put above your margin, and enough cash to pay the margin interest, your broker is at no risk of losing any money. Your broker wouldn't care if the stock traded at $10 a share for the next 9 months. They will just collect the margin interest and then put the shares in January for $50 to gain their principle back. This way, if you've set it up with your broker, you could take a short term $10-20 hit per share and still not get a margin call. chic