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To: freeus who wrote (129631)	5/28/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Freeus, I do agree that raising margin maintenance mid game is unprofessional. But if you must speculate in a leveraged position, check out WBM's posts about buying LT DITM call options, which have similar (though not same) risk-return profiles to margined positions with 0 risk of getting called so you are not forced to sell when the equity makes a swan dive, though there is some time premium decay. But personally since DELL and AOL has done so well (like doubling every year) I really think that LT holders already made a huge amount of money simply holding them, now such high beta stocks are precisely the most vulnerable ones when the market dips periodically, so I would never use leverage on such equities which already have a high level of short term risk. -BGR.

To: freeus who wrote (129631)	5/28/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: Matthew L. Jones	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

What is with this concept, anyway? I hold only four positions (DELL, CSCO, MSFT, and AOL) and AB Watley just arbitrarily decided to raise my maintenance requirement from 25% to 50% which totally blows my money management plan (I keep 20% of my portfolio in cash to act as a margin cushion). I have no problem if they do it while I don't have any trades on, but it seems unethical to me to change the rules in the middle of the game and thereby throwing my risk management out the window and putting my account in jeopardy. It happened to me in February when I had a very big YHOO position on, and now with a pretty tame portfolio. Now they are calling CSCO, MSFT, and DELL all "internet stocks". Is this legal. Maintenance requirements are not regulated by the SEC but fall under the Federal Reserve "Regulation T" and that really only deals with margin purchase requirements and not maintenance requirements. I've been with four brokerages before and have never experienced this before. MLJ