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To: maceng2 who wrote (150369)	2/8/2002 10:00:53 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

There's really no "they". It's just the tendency of equities to gravitate to the strikes with highest open interest at expiration due to exercise. Right now it's kinda skewed to the downside and it might come up some. Wouldn't venture to advise on exercising puts to sell stocks. Personally, I'd just calculate the total cost of outright selling the puts and stocks in separate transactions, and compare it to the cost of selling them via exercise, favoring the technique of a double transaction because I don't trust discount brokers to get it right...