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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (21758)	7/14/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: Robert O	Respond to of 70976

Ben, thanks for info. GM, wow you know people in high places! Unfort. this is just the type of answer I suspected (I did read caveats though). Gulp!

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (21758)	7/14/1998 10:11:00 AM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

It's also interesting to note, though, that Dell's max pain point is 85 for July expiration. AS of this writing Dell trades at 108 and doesn't seem ready to give up the ghost any time soon. Also, I enjoy musing about investors building strategies based on what appeared to be (and what was) statistically strong results only to find that their own actions changed those results. Alternatively, these same investors may actually make the effect self-fulfilling. Do you (or does anyone) have the backup to show stat. sig. i.e., regression of third Friday closing price to previously calculated max pain point? Volume and liquidity, as an earlier poster re-iterated, both in option and underlying stock must play a crucial role here as well.

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (21758)	7/14/1998 10:21:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

Ben, thank you for computing the AMAT max pain point! ($30) For those AMAT fans who want to know the method, please go to Ben's site pipeline.com and look under options analysis. Read Ben's caveats, too. Thanks Ben. GM