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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DownSouth who wrote (15088)	1/25/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: t2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

It is hard to stay away from options. Well I used to buy options to keep my cost low in retirement accounts in Canada. That is, only 20% of the portfolio is supposed to be non Canadian . This was one way to do it. I just went 100% options and paid a lot in foreign content penalties. (just got my annual statement). It was still worth it since I was able to increase my investment 100 times what I started with in Jan 98. I am trying to stay away from options. I am however limiting myself to no more than 15% (was 5%)in options--balance in cash and stocks. Two of my accounts in which I had made the big money won't have any options in them--Just INTel/CSCO/MSFT. I am trying so hard to stay away from options. It is just too tempting (more tempting if MSFT does not move up in a big way today)