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To: dli who wrote (57809)	8/5/2000 5:38:10 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

>>>> For every contract in existence there's a buyer and a seller. <<<< Dave, I understand your statement, but every day, there is not a balance here. The options MM's are required to make a market, and in so doing, they take a net long or short position on the instruments. My GUESS is that they offset this position with a concurrent long or short position in the actual security. Therefore, my assumption is also that the retail and/or commercial traders can be in the aggregate traced in terms of there net long or short position. If this is true, then it should give all of us little guys a sense of where the market is going. Just my 2 cents worth. Sam