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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FR1 who wrote (4719)	11/11/2001 10:49:21 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 99280

On your IBM example. Lets assume that a person had 100% of his money in IBM. Lets assume another person controlled the same amount of shares via 6 month calls. IBM drops in half. The firts person lost 50% of his money. The second person did not and is better off. The second person might only have lost 15-25%. He can try again at a much lower rate. Now if the person is trying 1 month calls every month, that person is in trouble. As for leaps, I do intend to load up in DEC on leap calls and I sure as hell hope we get that swoon Zeev is calling for. M