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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (13771)	9/14/1998 5:52:00 PM
From: space cadet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Selling naked puts is about the riskiest thing you can do. I personally wouldn't do it on asnd or any similar stock that could easily collapse. However, selling puts on the dells, msft, cscos of the world is a different story. I mean if you are prepared to buy them at a certain price why not capture the expensive premiums in the puts by selling them. I don't see any of the top tier stocks falling very much, do you? And even if the worst case comes about, say you sold dell puts at 55 and it falls to 50, how many days do you think it would take to get back above 55? Not many with earnings coming soon. So as long as you sell no more puts than you can afford to buy the stock if you need to, I think it's pretty safe, even in this uncertain environment. Or do you see the top line stocks I mentioned going much lower?