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To: Mitchell Jones who wrote (96)	1/15/1998 11:32:00 PM
From: carolyn walder	Respond to of 431

Mitch - thanks for the response. I enjoy options and use them more for cash flow generation. I sell more options than buy, but I have to admit that I have violated my mantra at times and got greedy and as a result lost. A guy named steve (on the covered call thread) has a system for very volatile (yet quality) companies which involves selling covered calls at the strike closest to the current share price. One then buys puts after the price moves up and buys calls when the price moves down (particularly around earnings announcement time when price movement may be large). He doesn't pay much for the options - I believe he will only pay 1/2 or less. He apparently has done real well, but the requirement is you can't get greedy and you must have patience. I am trying his system, but my youthful (speaking of my stock market experience) exuberance makes patience almost worse than Chinese water torture! I am getting better, and, thankfully, I have learned from my mistakes! I appreciate your input. - Grandparents are wonderful people, I hope to be one oneday, but right now I have to get through the parenting thing (I have 2 boys; 3 and 1 1/2 years old). Take care, CArolyn

To: Mitchell Jones who wrote (96)	1/27/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: mac	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 431

Hi Mitch: It has been pointed out to me that the Microware announcement of Jan 12th is a rehash of the announcement of June 17th last year: microware.com "Microware will work with the telecommunications leader to provide a leading-edge Java-based wireless telephone incorporating the OS-9 operating system." microware.com "Microware Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MWAR), a major system software supplier for the mobile communications market, and Nortel (Northern Telecom), a global developer of communications networks, today jointly announced that Nortel will use Microware's S-9 real-time operating system in its range of mobile Java terminals." The wording (terminal versus telephone) is a little different, but I believe that they're talking about the same thing. So it's old news that MWAR seems to want to repeat, I'm guessing because of the WIND Nortel aggreement. mac :)