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Strategies & Market Trends : Options 201: Beyond Obi-Wan-Kenobe -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (728)	2/12/2003 10:07:01 PM
From: J. P.	Respond to of 1064

Some people trade seats like options: cboe.com At 200K now, was 160K a couple days ago. I'm just wondering what kind of options trades you can make. Whether you can sell spreads without the huge bid/ask differential. It would be a more viable strategy that way.

To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (728)	2/12/2003 11:50:32 PM
From: Tim O.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1064

I noticed an extremely high OI on a stock that i'm heavily invested in and i was wondering if the folks here have a comment. Look at the LEAPS for AMKR and you'll see the Jan05 2.5P has an OI of 18089 contracts compared to a high of 1195 for all the other options. i've never noticed such a huge disparity. i'm guessing the transactions are for short puts, but i have no way of verifying that. at today's quotes, the dollar amount at risk isn't huge, but the OI is curiously huge. any thoughts guys? Ken?