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Non-Tech : MAT - Mattel - toysRthem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pvz who wrote (663)	12/7/2000 9:18:34 AM
From: Arthur Tang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 706

On options, if you don't make money in a few days, it is just paying insurance on your hedge. The toy business is really divided in age groups. The U S population growth is no longer zero; so child birth is around 2.85 million per year. Death is around 2.5 million per year. The toy business can be more statistically oriented around children born each year. With the age group distribution defined in the last 10 years, MAT has to have products for every age group and every child and grown up? Wage improvement is also a big consideration in the toy business. On overbought situation, it is taken care of by the MAT director who is the stock pool member of the specialist. Don't confuse this situation with Nasdaq daytrading market makers' actions or large brokerage's bull pan shorting mistakes. Specialist can hold all the hands tightly preventing any investment mistakes and thus maintaining an orderly market.