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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommaso who wrote (80989)	5/21/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: marc chatman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Tomasso, I found currency options symbols on the CBOE site. Here's a link: cboe.com The site gives symbol roots for European and American style options, mid-month, end-month, etc. To find the specific options, I go to the CBOE page for delayed quotes, type in the 3-letter root symbol in the box on the upper left, check the appropriate boxes below and submit. quote.cboe.com That gives me the complete 5-letter symbols for all the relevant options, info (delayed) on bid/ask, volume and open interest. As I mentioned in my post to Mike, though, the open interest numbers are very low, and the volume is almost non-existent. Mike indicated the options are traded on the Philly Exchange, so I found the following link: phlx.com I'm just starting to go through it, so I don't know anything more specific. As far as where to trade, I don't know -- I'm going to call my brokerage tomorrow hopefully and find out whether I can trade through them on-line the same way I trade stocks. Unfortunately, the last brokerage rep I spoke with should have been declared clinically brain-dead, so I'm not sure how useful they will be. In the end, I may simply contact my bank and see whether they can convert dollars to dm's or euros, how badly they will nail me on the spread, and what interest rate they will give me before I convert back. I'm looking for a nice run of at least a month or two.