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

To: Tom M who wrote (28660)	9/23/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Hi Tom; I was just using intc as an example, on a sort of academic thinking out loud way of looking at the advantage , put writers have over put buyers ( all things even it's a good one ). By that I mean lets assume both sides are just as smart as each other about calling up or down turns, and it works out were the writer can call them as good as the buyer. ------------------------ The writer with a little foot work will have a big edge over the buyer of puts. I think I made clear that if I were to play it would be on NB not intc. Even then I hate to take issue with some certain stock as if I'm hyping, or knocking it. Still I'm sold on the safety factor built into Larger cap stocks, this coming from the strategic advantage, which is my focus. There is no reason to think I can not do FA as good as anyone else, but lets keep in mind half the info we get to do FA on is not reliable, other wise the expert Anal-cysts would not be in endless revising, devising , and surmising and there would not be disappointments, or surprises. The extra edge , lies in looking for a strategic advantage the stock might have and understanding it separate and away from FA or TA with that in one hand then do the other. More to the point, I hoped that post was examining how to see the strategic advantage of writing puts, as opposed to buying them. Intc was just academic to the theme. Jim