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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: IBM: What's your bottom line?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:45:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.234526.22811@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <4250052@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Dec28.225136.5626@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec28.225136.5626@netcom.com> masimo@netcom.com (Michael Maas) writes:
- >In article <4250052@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch) writes:
- >>So, what's your bottom line:
- >>
- >> If you owned IBM stock right now, would you sell it?
-
- I just did. Took a bath, too.
-
- >I do, and I'm not. I'm waiting for another opportunity to sell covered
- >calls on it.
-
- I'm trying to understand what you mean.
-
- Clearly you could sell a call right now. But you are waiting for
- another opportunity, and you are holding your IBM. If I put that
- together, I think you are saying the calls are too cheap to sell
- now.
-
- If so, they must be a good buy, so you should be buying the calls,
- right? The risk is very small -- the price of the (too cheap)
- calls.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-