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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (46925)1/21/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Bruce A. Thompson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572777
 
Jim,

Here's a little of what is happening to the internuts. The following is from the Suretrade margin account update:

Please be advised of higher margin requirements in place for volatile stocks. Regardless of whether the account is Diversified or not, if the following stocks are in your account, the Equity Requirement on the account will be raised as indicated:

To 50%: PPOD, SEEK, MSPG, ELNK, XCIT, PSIX, ATHM, LCOS, NM

To 65%: CYCH, CDNW, SPYG, DRIV, AMZN, EGGS, BYND, PTVL, TGLO, CYLK, TCTV, COOL, OMKT, BAMM, MALL, EWBX, ONSL, MZON, EBAY, BOX. UBID, NSOL, BCST, CMGI, CYLKE, GEEK, GIII, IMAL, KTEL, NSOL, SKYM, YHOO, AMEN, AMENW, GCTY

To 75%: KTEL

- All of the above securities have a 100% margin requirement if they are in your short account



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (46925)1/21/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1572777
 
Jimbo - Re: "You still selling puts on AMZN?"

No.

Mine expired in November, December and last week (Jan 15).

The money stayed in my account.

Where it belongs.

However, I think I will start selling some more tomorrow.

These big drops are great for running up the price of PUTS and I doubt that Amazon will go more than 10 or 20% lower than where it closed today - at least by mid-February.

Paul