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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (8699)	12/22/2000 4:36:22 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10876

Happy Holidays to all! o and Grub

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (8699)	12/22/2000 4:46:04 PM
From: rocklobster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10876

Lee, I figured out how to work the excell spreadsheet, but I would really like a format that I could input my trades into as that would save me a ton of time in manually inputting every trade, and trying to reconcile buying and selling in odd lots.. IB has a tendency to fill in very erratic lot sizes making hand inputting and reconciling very difficult.. I'm still not sure whether I like IB better than Charles Schwab... My main reason for moving over to IB was the high commissions on options at Schwab...especially small option positions, but after looking at all my trades, I may give up options trading altogether.. I had one call option that I let expire worthless, and it wiped out all the gains on all my other options positions, altough there were only ten trades altogether, so its not like it was a lot of trades. I am really new to trading options, and was doing a few small position trades to get the feel of it.. anyway, I sold out all my longs for huge losses right around the lows of two dayz ago, after suffering a huge loss when RNWK preannounced, and I was caught in an overnight long position.. I am taking some time off from the markets.. I need to relax during christmas season, and come back to trading after the new year.. All this tax loss selling is rediculous, and I don't want to get caught in another bull trap next week... I am wary of gap opens like today, and like Tuesday will likely be. any info is appreciated. thanks for the response earlier. rok