To: Uncle Frank who wrote (13077 ) 11/8/2000 9:17:24 PM From: Dealer Respond to of 65232 <font color=Red>AFTERHOURS QUOTES & EARNINGS REPORT DATES (after quotes) Voltaire's Porch Basket of Stocks These Stock Have Not Been Picked By Any One Individual GORILLA--A company that controls it market because it has a discontinuous innovation ,one that is not compatible with existing systems. The market is in a hyper growth stage, and they control the architecture. There is a high switching cost to using some other company's product, KING--The Market leader, properly with a two-times lead or better over its closest competitor. If the lead shrinks too far, the king becomes a prince, and we have a kingless market. Because they lack architectural control, and because switching costs are low, they cannot force competitors onto the defensive the way Microsoft, Intel, or Cisco can. Compaq is a king. Seagate is a king of hard drives. A lot of study has been done on these stocks by the Gorilla and Kings thread. There are the stocks that are discussed most often on the porch........and 1 or more are in most porcher's portfolio. The following Stocks are on the Gorilla and King Index CSCO CLOSE 52 1/8 AFTERHOURS 52.37 GMST CLOSE 62 15/16 AFTERHOURS 62.50 INTC CLOSE 42 11/16 AFTERHOURS 42.9687 JDSU CLOSE 68 1/2 AFTERHOURS 68 NTAP CLOSE 107 1/16 AFERHOURS 108 QCOM CLOSE 69 1/16 AFTERHOURS 69 SEBL CLOSE 106 5/8 AFTERHOURS 105.9687 The following Stocks are on the Gorilla and King Wait and Watchlist The Watch & Wait Index consists of stocks that have some desirable characteristics but are not necessarily Gorillas or Kings - at least not yet. Most of them will not be, but they bear watching for that possibility. They are as follows: BRCM CLOSE 151 13/16 AFTERHOURS 148.25 CREE CLOSE 98 AFTERHOURS 99 ELON CLOSE 28 AFTERHOURS 28 ITWO CLOSE 157 AFTERHOURS 158 PMCS CLOSE 108 11/16 AFTERHOURS 107.50 RMBS CLOSE 63 3/4 AFTERHOURS 63.50 RNWK CLOSE 23 1/16 AFTERHOUR 22.75 WIND CLOSE 46 13/16 AFTERHOURS 46.6450 SNDK CLOSE 61 15/16 AFTERHOURS 60.55 For TL by special request: Is not a gorilla or king ALTR CLOSE 28 7/16 AFTERHOURS 28.0625 "Voltaire's Cover Call Strategy 101" see Post # 9490 Post #'s of Recent Cover Call Strategy Discussions From recent discussions--August 16,17 and 18, 2000 see post #31425 updated 8/31/00 Contest: “Which Stock Will Double?” link belowMessage 13523976 27272 Original Posts "Voltaire Cover Call Strategy 101"