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- From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom M. Blenko)
- Subject: Re: Warrents
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.184225.19023@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <1992Nov16.162339.17146@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:42:25 GMT
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- | >>>My general recommendation, is that buying a warrant or option
- | >>>is a lot closer to gambling than investing.
- | >>
- | >>Peter Lynch says that both he and Warren Buffet feel that
- | >>options and futures trading should be banned. So you're
- | >>in good company.
- | >
- | >In other words, they want to be able to disallow people to write
- | >contracts between themselves ? That doesn't sound like good
- | >company to me. (no matter how much I admire PL and WB, I think
- | >they are wrong on this issue)
- |
- | I won't argue either side, but I think your statement of the case is
- | simplified. It is not merely a matter of whether people should or
- | should not be allowed to write contracts.
- |
- | Rather, the contracts themselves have become a negotiable
- | commodity.
- |
- | (And if we then turn around and write contracts on contracts, such
- | as options on futures contracts, we now have a negotiable commodity
- | twice removed.)
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- I don't get it. Options are insurance policies. Options
- on options are reinsurance. What is the objection to
- either, and why shouldn't they be traded as securities?
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- Certainly market theory suggests that options have an
- important role to play.
-
- Tom
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