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

To: Paresh R. Patel who wrote (19227)	3/29/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

Paresh, You are absolutely right. A few good trades in MSFT options and you are ready for retirement but you gotta be able to bottom fish. I used to think people were insane to sell MSFT shares but a lot did anyways. Those opportunities in MSFT options are unparalled in my opinion. Dell options carried too high a premium to make it big. I have seen very cheap options in MSFT trading at 1/8 to 1/4 turn out to trade at 10 to 20. I think the predictability of MSFT stock movement makes it too easy!! I guess you are a trader partly in long term option--which is good since you know your trades will be winners given the amount of time. I used to buy lots of options in the week of expiration as long as it was just before earning release(usually the day after expiration). Just make sure you don't gamble away all your gains with a very short term big trades. I had been lucky on those but could have easily screwed up in a big way. I am going to look into leaps but am not sure which strikes. Good luck and be carefull.