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To: Jim Patterson who wrote (26960)1/6/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: hpeace  Respond to of 176387
 
IBM is a no body in home pc's.
the world has never forgiven them for PC Jr<gg>
the best strategy now is to play for things to go up til earnings announement of cpq.
have calls now. then right before earnings buy puts for a perfect step in strangle.
I can easily see a strangle is needed for earnings.
cpq always blows q4 so much that q1 can never match it.
they will say so too. so, i'll make money on calls now.
then puts later, and have cehap calls incase cpq goes up more