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

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (34571)	2/28/2002 1:01:59 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Late March should be correct Zeev, even if we tank big here. There are so so many MARCH puts in the money that I think they try dammned hard to prop this sucker up until March 15. Does that explain the low VIX/VXN? I have not paid attention to month by month differences before but I can say there is a complete void of QQQ options in April. On the QQQ there are 100K puts and calls on many March strikes as compared to about 10K max per strike in April. A 10-1 difference! In June there are 50-60K options on many strikes so this is not a question of rollover as June exceeds March by 5-1 or so. It is not a question of quarter ends either as FEB had a whole slew of options as well. I find this strange and have not seen such an occurrance before but I am paying more attention to these details now. Oddly enough there are more options on INTC and MSFT in April than March but not CSCO. I am sure that this dearth of QQQ options will give the criminals a far easier time manipulating the markets after the 15'th than before, if only they can prop this sucker up for 2 more weeks. Even if they fail to prop us up here, I see no reason for a strong rally until after the 15th because there is a void of April calls they will avoid on the way back up. Can we chop around for 2 more weeks? M