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To: Rajiv Hargunani who wrote (1961)	7/31/2002 10:48:28 PM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Is it your thoughts that it is very strange to see these high volumes on the high end of the strike table, see below? These are for Puts. Strike price change Volume 47.5 .SMHTW 20.50 +0.60 20.50 20.90 5011 50 .SMHTJ 23.00 +0.60 23.00 23.40 3000 55 .SMHTK 28.60 +1.20 28.00 28.40 5002 60 .SMHTL 33.60 +1.90 33.00 33.50 6251 65 .SMHTM 38.60 +1.90 38.00 38.50 8251 Typically the highest volume were on the low end of the strike price. See below the low end of the strike price. Strike price change Volume 20 .SMHTD 0.10 0.00 0.05 0.15 22.5 .SMHTX 0.35 +0.10 0.20 0.35 181 25 .SMHTE 0.75 +0.20 0.70 0.85 43 27.5 .SMHTY 2.05 +0.65 1.75 1.90 794 30 .SMHTF 3.80 +0.70 3.50 3.70 95 So this suggests that thousand of puts were sold today with a very high premium. Then this implies that the Big Money see an upturn in the future and these puts will die worthless. Is that what this is suggesting? Thanks Stan

To: Rajiv Hargunani who wrote (1961)	7/31/2002 11:53:09 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 25522

Rajiv, where did that SMH puts data come from? SMH August puts: Datek shows this. I omitted strikes that had zero volume today. last change volume open interest 02 Aug 20 .10 0 756 02 Aug 22.50 0.35 .05 51 3,790 02 Aug 25 0.75 .05 20 2,984 02 Aug 27.50 2.05 .55 577 5,524 02 Aug 30 3.8 .80 46 2,091 02 Aug 32.50 5.6 .60 5 7,722 02 Aug 35 8.4 1.2 5 5,227 02 Aug 37.50 11.2 1.8 4 3,835 02 Aug 40 13.6 1.9 0 2,093 Datek shows no activity above the $37.50 strike. Yahoo finance.yahoo.com We have some discrepancies. Gottfried