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To: Dealer who wrote (36276)	4/25/2001 10:45:44 PM
From: RR	Respond to of 65232

Howdy Dealer! How's it going? I've been playing the swings is all. Not day trading, but have stepped back into more aggressive quicker trading. Been doing that since November when I went into "RR Attack Mode." Primarily just playing the buy side of QQQ options, mainly calls with some puts at times, like I mentioned last week on here when I was closing the long call positions and was looking at puts Monday. Trying to be selective with entry/exits to get as much from the swings over several days as possible. Patience.... Holding QQQ 03 ITM leap calls. That's my only position as of today. Holding nothing on single company issues right now. Have had good results trading QQQFZ, June 52 QQQ calls. I usually don't buy OTM, as you know, but since I was trading, it didn't matter as I only wanted the swing, playing the volatility. Nice swings of course with some 4 and 5 bagers on them lately. Waiting to see if Naz tries to fill that 1925-2000 gap. Staying with tech. Check the QQQ leaps. Hope all is well with you and your Mother. RR

To: Dealer who wrote (36276)	4/26/2001 7:37:45 AM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

M A R K E T .. S N A P S H O T -- Equities ready for sloppy start By Julie Rannazzisi, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 7:25 AM ET Apr 26, 2001 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Investors appear ready to take stocks lower once trading opens Thursday after a vigorous push by buyers late Wednesday, which handed both the Dow Industrials and Nasdaq decent gains. In shares trading before the official opening bell, Lucent Technologies (LU) rose 25 cents to $10.50 after France's Alcatel said it's bidding for Lucent's fiber-optic segment. June S&P 500 futures slipped 4.00 points, or 0.3 percent, and were trading about 6.10 points below fair value, according to HL Camp & Co. Nasdaq futures, meanwhile, erased 12.00 points, or 0.7 percent. Government bond issues failed to stray far from the unchanged mark. The best buying interest was clustered in the belly of the yield curve, as five- and 10-year issues saw the greatest gains. The 10-year Treasury note was up 1/8 to yield ($TNX) 5.25 percent while the 30-year government bond added 2/32 to yield ($TYX) 5.775 percent. Thursday will see the release of the first-quarter employment cost index - the broadest measure of wage costs - seen rising 1 percent. View Economic Preview and economic calendar and forecasts. In the currency space, dollar/yen increased 0.2 percent to 122.40 while euro/dollar edged down 0.1 percent to 0.8965. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------