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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (72639)	10/16/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Eddie Kim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Just to stimulate some discussion on this issue I point out that if the price of a stock is $x today, the best guess as to where the price will be in a month is pretty close to $x also. Now, if you consider that writing options is really just a way of decreasing the risk of a position, and if you also realize that except for the bid/ask spread and commissions, options is a zero sum game, it should not be a surprise that the vast bulk of options expire worthless, and this does not require any market maker manipulations. You make some pretty bold assumptions, yet ultimately you fail to make a clear point. What is your point given what Dell-icious has written?