To: Dealer who wrote (28192 ) 1/3/2001 8:19:38 PM From: Dealer Respond to of 65232 A F T E R H O U R S....Q U O T E S & EARNINGS REPORT DATES 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 41 5/16 AFTERHOURS 41.29 GMST CLOSE 46 9/16 AFTERHOURS 47.75 INTC CLOSE 34 15/64 AFTERHOURS 34.1875 JDSU CLOSE 53 5/8 AFTERHOURS 52.75 NTAP CLOSE 64 AFERHOURS 65 QCOM CLOSE 84 1/16 AFTERHOURS 84 SEBL CLOSE 69 13/16 AFTERHOURS 69.50 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 106 15/16 AFTERHOURS 105.50 CREE CLOSE 37 1/8 AFTERHOURS 38.375 ELON CLOSE 18 5/16 AFTERHOURS 18.50 ITWO CLOSE 48 33/64 AFTERHOURS 49.125 PMCS CLOSE 80 7/8 AFTERHOURS 80 RMBS CLOSE 44 1/16 AFTERHOURS 44 RNWK CLOSE 9 AFTERHOUR 9.0937 WIND CLOSE 35 1/2 AFTERHOURS 35.5625 SNDK CLOSE 30 7/16 AFTERHOURS 30.76 "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" E A R N I N G S---D A T E S SSTI 1/11 CREE 1/11 PMCS 1/11 ELON 1/11 INTC 1/16 ITWO 1/16 RNWK 1/16 BRCM 1/17 SNDK 1/17 MSFT 1/17 NEWP 1/18 SDLI 1/19 CMRC 1/19 SEBL 1/24 JDSU 1/25 QCOM 2/1 CSCO 2/5 GMST 2/12 NTAP 2/13 BEAS 2/13 WIND ???