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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: valueminded who wrote (59124)	5/12/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Chris, Hard stuff is the futures. I don't use full leverage on the contracts. That is not investing, it is gambling. My contracts tend to run from fully capitalized to about 40%. I also sometimes use the half sized exchanges. On spreads, I usually have at least double the minimum margin. I use options on gold and silver, but haven't on pallidium or platinum as they are on kind of odd exchanges. I do think futures options, especially bond options, are the best deals around. Very cheap, IMHO. I use a full service brokerage firm that is also a commodity player. You can do the same stuff with a futures discounter, but not with a discount stock broker. I have never used the futures discounters, so I don't know how they are.