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To: Don Martini who wrote (83808)	12/5/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: PAL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi Don: Your mind works like a Dell computer in analyzing different scenarios. In a rising market, the strategy is naturally easy: buy call or sell put. You educate the thread as what defensive strategies might work in a choppy or down market. We all learn a lot from your wisdom. Hopefully that one will have the fortitude to take the action. Is it not that in investment we should maximize gain and minimize loss (if we must) to optimize our return? My question is : if you roll an option to the next expiry date (such as being short put of a declining stock) using the same strike price, do you do it at the expiry date (say Dec 18) or the day before, or now? One thing I like about shorting an option for January 1999, it takes only 2 weeks in January to expire (Jan 15 is the third Friday). Thanks again and regards, Paul.