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Strategies & Market Trends : VOLTAIRE'S PORCH-MODERATED -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Voltaire who wrote (10590)	10/31/2000 2:01:18 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 65232

Well I am learning to trade the volatility but I do it very cautiously. As in on these selloffs I buy a small lot of OTM calls on issues I watch all day--such as cien, jnpr, beas, etc. They seem to trade up and down in a similar range of late. So I bot some cien calls on the selloff yesterday and flipped them for a point, and did the same with beas. They both just hit. In one case it was a double and in the other about 40%. I am thinking maybe I should establish a small trading account in which to do this, so that psychologically it's separate from my regular brokerage account, and poor deflated keogh (extr and nt--yikes!). It could be interesting. OTOH, this volatility may be about to change to a bull. Just when I finally get used to it!