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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (10356)11/16/1997 1:42:00 AM
From: Carmine Cammarosano  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 45548
 
Hi Glenn, you are right that the open interest would go up 10 if I bought 10 puts...someone else may have sold 100 puts(to open) and now the open interest is 110, but most of the open interest is on shorting the put...ie the bet is being placed that the stock will go up...