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To: j g cordes who wrote (27654)	11/1/1997 8:31:00 PM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 58727

>>Alien... slow down<< Hmm kinda hard since I hold 4 full time jobs :) But I read so much here and there its hard to keep track of it all but I remember some thing about the 9000 or so puts that was sold and bought back in a day or two.. And there was an article in one of the major publications about companies selling puts and thats how they were buying back shares. It reduces their expense. INTC was on the top of the list with MSFT and IBM also in there. A lot of the other companies stopped doing it recently. And one other thing they mentioned was that they sold these puts calls directly to the customer just like they sell stock directly to institutions so it dosent show up in the OI :), Not sure if the stock sale shows up in the time/sales though, dont have anything to co-ordiante with to see if it does..