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To: Erwin who wrote (56066)	5/25/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Gentlemen: I find your discussion interesting. I find the pricing of options even more so. In fact it is uncanny. It revolves around interest rates and volatility and when I am tempted to write a covered call in a volatile stock I am always pleased with the premium at the outset but of late with the techs falling into disfavor have found that I would have liked about twice as much premium. You see my stocks have been falling out of bed faster than the premium has been evaporating on the sold calls. Yeah the calls have expired worthless but so too have some of the stocks (well not worthless) but worth a lot less. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to make a buck any more, simply or otherwise. JFD