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To: Shack who wrote (60760)	12/3/2002 6:48:31 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

Looking at Max Pain on the QQQ, December appears to be pretty much 26 right now. Another 25k puts at strike 26 and Max Pain could move up to 27 for this month: finance.yahoo.com It's early, but January Max Pain has moved up to 25 from 23 a couple weeks ago: finance.yahoo.com Still not a lot of open interest in January, so it could move pretty easily.

To: Shack who wrote (60760)	12/3/2002 7:15:13 PM
From: Doppler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 209892

One thing that is always left out of everyone's max pain analysis is the premium that was either paid or received. If those QQQ 27s were purchased with $2 prem then they aren't really ITM until 29. Or if the big boys sold the 25s and got $2 they are totally happy with anything over $23. That is why max pain is sometimes off from the calculations. It really depends on time held, etc.