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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!cbfsb!cbnews!ask
- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Warrents
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:23:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.162339.17146@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov14.001733.26461@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BxqnDo.AnF@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov16.094003.11358@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.094003.11358@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markr@mcil.comm.mot.com writes:
- >In article <BxqnDo.AnF@cs.uiuc.edu> watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
- >>ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
- >>
- >>>I also almost never buy options. (I do write them though.)
- >>
- >>I have heard that there is money to be made off warrants ..
- >>writing them, that is. How do you write warrants?
- >>
- >>>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.)
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-