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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: umbro who wrote (25215)	11/10/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: umbro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

AMZN options report for 11/10/98 AMZN price: 131.750 Options Study for: NOV put break-even: 119.02 OI = 17024 VOL = 6109 call break-even: 136.39 OI = 22065 VOL = 4612 max. pain: 115.06 R = 0.8 R = 1.3 Options Study for: DEC put break-even: 112.85 OI = 2436 VOL = 1330 call break-even: 145.33 OI = 2558 VOL = 2162 max. pain: 120.08 R = 1.0 R = 0.6 Options Study for: JAN put break-even: 104.82 OI = 4913 VOL = 439 call break-even: 149.85 OI = 9551 VOL = 1770 max. pain: 99.97 R = 0.5 R = 0.2 Options Study for: APR put break-even: 98.53 OI = 2247 VOL = 304 call break-even: 158.50 OI = 2402 VOL = 555 max. pain: 119.93 R = 0.9 R = 0.5 net long/short: 1.00 mil. i.v. for NOV = 0.77 i.v. for DEC = 0.87 i.v. for JAN = 0.93 i.v. for APR = 0.86 Today's wild ride pushed implied vols. up a bit, especially in the Jan. options. Would've been a good day to be long a straddle: calling the direction on AMZN seems near impossible these days.