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To: Gottfried who wrote (41338)	1/7/2001 2:22:23 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

Wasn't Cramer the same guy who said to buy as much YHOO as possible below $150? Subject 50522

To: Gottfried who wrote (41338)	1/7/2001 8:48:14 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

One of the many reasons I am proud to be an AMAT shareholder. Applied Materials Donates Over 4.3 Million Pounds of Food At Applied Materials sites throughout the country, employees rallied together to collect more than 4.3 million pounds of food for the hungry in their communities, during the Company's 10th Annual Food Drive. Employees organized and participated in a variety of activities including bake sales, silent auctions, drawings, canned food sculpture competitions (pictured above, sculpture of Applied Materials logo made from cans of tuna) and even car washes to reach and surpass the Company's four million pound goal. In addition, Applied Materials employees and family members gave-up their Saturday morning to box over 120,000 pounds of food at the 5th Annual Helping Hands Day in Santa Clara, CA. During the past 10 years, Applied Materials has conducted one of the largest corporate food drives in the nation, according to Second Harvest Food Bank. Last year the company raised over three million pounds of food nationwide. Join in the fight against hunger today. Visit any of the Web sites below to learn how. More about Helping Hands Day > Links in the Fight Against Hunger secondharvest.org donatefood.org 2ndharvest.net austinfoodbank.org strength.org thehungersite.com appliedmaterials.com Subject 50522

To: Gottfried who wrote (41338)	1/7/2001 10:20:05 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Using a leap strategy for a whole years gain in one move. While various thread members have indicated a preference for AMAT leaps one or two years out here is a safer way to lock in some profits. If an investor were willing to settle for an immediate 20% gain on AMAT shares this year here is how to manage it. Based on Fridays close of about $42.00 a share you can write a covered call for January 60's 2002 and get 8 1/4 for it. A miserly return you say. But do the math prior to dismissing this idea. Buy AMAT at 42 and get called out at 60 +++8 1/4. Total return equals 67%. After this past year who would settle for that. Lots of investors I think. The problem with just buying the leap is a number of things. 1)Buying a leap makes the quantum assumption that tech stocks will recover nicely and the market will recover with the economy, and the new President will correct the falling stock prices along with a host of other American problems. 2) Much has been made of Tito's stair case workers on the AMAT foundation. The last I heard was that the stair case workers all quit (they were tired of building stairs going no where in particular) and were immediately replaced by elevator operators who were very accustomed to going up and down a very narrow shaft, on a constant basis. 3)The concept that AMAT always recovers because it has always done so in the past is self deluding. I hope it does, because if it doesn't a lot of stuff I own is going to fall right down that elevator shaft and land with a thud. 4)My new motto will have to be something like, "hope for the best, prepare for disaster". I did meet a man once that did sell covered calls a whole year out. At the time I thought he was crazy, but now I'm not so sure. Jerome