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To: Ibexx who wrote (62155)	8/9/1998 2:08:00 AM
From: Chidambaram	Respond to of 186894

Based on the open interest in puts and calls for all strikes as of close of trading on 8/7/98, the optimal stock price to kill the maximum dollar value of puts and calls (hence POX) is listed below for Aug and Sep. AMAT AOL ASND COMS CPQ CSCO DELL IBM IMNX INTC IOM LSCC LU Date 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 8/7/98 Close 35.13 111.88 47.50 27.69 35.13 99.38 107.81 129.13 64.44 87.00 5.50 30.56 91.44 Aug 32.50 110.00 50.00 25.00 30.00 90.00 95.00 120.00 65.00 80.00 7.50 30.00 90.00 Sep 30.00 110.00 45.00 25.00 30.00 95.00 105.00 125.00 65.00 80.00 10.00 35.00 90.00 I shall update these figures from time to time. Is there a better way to present a table of data in this forum ? Raga

To: Ibexx who wrote (62155)	8/10/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: David S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Ibexx, your stockbroker's post was interesting. Too many lose out by chasing the winner's at the top and running away from the losers at the bottom. Intel, more than anything, taught me to buy and hold, but frankly I follow a mix of both strategies as described in your post. Buy when a good stock tanks on bad news or a weak market, hold for the ride back up, and then continue to hold on for a long time. My best decisions were the following: 1) about 4 years ago, when the pentium chip flawed and INTC dropped in half, I bought the Intel warrants (I still have the same shares after converting in March), and 2) when the market crashed in 1987, I switched my pension fund from 50/50 stocks vs bonds/paper to an 80/20 mix favoring stocks. Both decisions resulted in extraordinary gains by taking a big risk and then sticking with it. All my other playing around has done little in comparison. On a shorter term basis I bought some KO and HD just a few months back when they were in the sixties, also on short term bad news. They are now in the 80's (HD split). Who needs to find the next Microsoft when the market is so kind to a little courage. Regards, David S. INTC, IOM, WCOM, LU