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To: Mr.Manners who wrote (146)	4/4/1998 6:56:00 PM
From: gambler	Respond to of 245

Here is a stock that I just found out about. Ticker is NHAN it is called Nhancement Technology. Stock is 2 15/16 per share, just as good as an option but never expires. I got some info that says it will see $5 in less than 2 weeks. I'm jumping in on Monday. Talk to you later.

To: Mr.Manners who wrote (146)	4/5/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: gambler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 245

I don't know how much you use TA such as bollinger bands, but I just looked at INTC and it looks ripe for an explosion, one way or the other. This is funny because last spring I looked at INTC for a possible monthly straddle. I went back about a year and recorded the INTC prices from one options expiration to the next and found that 9 or 10 out of 12 months I could have made a 50% return per month by playing a straddle on INTC. This was a very exciting money-making discovery. Unfortunately I never was able to put it into action as I soon after quit trading until about Jan of this year. The reason I quit tradding was that my broker restricted my option activity right after some very successful trades because he said I was trading too much money in options for my income level. I was a college student at the time so I only reported $10k in income. But anyways once I build myself back up (capital wise) I will research revamping this strategy. I especially like this strategy because if we ever get a market correction (or I should say when we get the next one) you will still profit heavily from the move. Well it is time to get back to my good friend Leinenkugel.

To: Mr.Manners who wrote (146)	4/5/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: gambler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 245

By the way, this to anyone who would like to answer, what is the cheapest option commissions you have found and where? Currently I pay $34 plus $1 per contract minimum. I think this is steep as I usually only trade about 5 or so contracts depending on the trade. This definitely cuts into my profits. If all I traded was 10 or more it wouldn't amount to much, but at my level it does. I wish they would offer flat fees like $7 per trade or something like online stock trades.