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Technology Stocks : Atmel - the trend is about to change -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Lou who wrote (8069)	3/24/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Vikas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13565

Jim, During earnings-release months, you want to make sure you participate in a potential rally with minimum risk. If you own the stock, you may buy cheap PUTs so that you are protected against a tanking. If you don't own the stock, you may buy CALLs so you may participate in a potential rally should the stock skyrocket. If you buy both CALLs and PUTs (buy PUTs during a pre-earnings rally and buy CALLs during any pre-earnings decline), then you bank nice profits in all scenarios EXCEPT if the stock doesn't move at all (usually unlikely in ATMLs case). I have played many such strategies with ATML in the past and am now ready to jump in milking some profits out of this one again. Vikas