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To: rkral who wrote (61168)	8/29/2002 6:31:10 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

OT ... Lizzie, re "... or 2) don't buy stock in companies that don't expense options. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me." Now there's a perfectly reasonable and practical solution. Especially when one considers that before June 2002, the only S&P 500 companies expensing options were Boeing and Winn-Dixie. That cut the investment universe down to 1 out of 250 stocks. Very good idea. You can now add Coke, most things Warren Buffet is involved in, as well as Amazon to the investing universe of companies that only expense options. Of course each of these use a different method to estimate, and are not constrained in any way to go with Black Scholes... it appears that Warren Buffet at least isn't interested in Black Scholes based on the approach at Coca Cola. Companies already provide this info in their reports so its not like the data isn't there for you to see. Lizzie