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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (27728)	9/13/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Joseph G.	Respond to of 94695

<<Also, the higher the indexes this Friday, the more options expire worthless from what I have tallied as of Fridays close>> I estimated roughly $5 billion can be "saved" in Sept. That's a lot of money, but we trade on the order of $60 B a day, so if there is a good reason, the option sellers can be overwhelmed ...

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (27728)	9/13/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

EQUITY OPTION TOTAL EQUITY CALL VOLUME : 307,505 TOTAL EQUITY PUT VOLUME : 164,523 TOTAL VOLUME : 472,028 TOTAL INDEX CALL VOLUME : 143,415 TOTAL INDEX PUT VOLUME : 208,219 TOTAL VOLUME : 351,634 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum of All Products TOTAL CALL VOLUME: 451122 TOTAL CALL OPEN INTEREST:13058117 TOTAL PUT VOLUME: 374140 TOTAL PUT OPEN INTEREST: 9320721 TOTAL VOLUME: 825262 TOTAL OPEN INTEREST:22378838 --------------------------------------------- S&P 100 Index-(OEX,OEW,OEY) OEX CALL VOLUME: 78987 OEX CALL OPEN INTEREST: 363112 OEX PUT VOLUME: 79471 OEX PUT OPEN INTEREST: 261726 OEX TOTAL VOLUME: 158458 OEX TOTAL OPEN INTEREST: 624838 OEX LEVELS HIGH: 492.99 LOW: 474.17 CLOSE: 492.99 +14.19