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- 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 03:59:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.035957.2902@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <Bxo5zB.80J@hfglobe.intel.com> <1992Nov14.001733.26461@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BxqnDo.AnF@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- 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?
-
- The same way you write, for example, a call option: you sell it
- short.
-
- But a caution: unlike options which have a fixed expiration date,
- many warrants have a provision which lets the company extend their
- life.
-
- So if you sold a warrant short expecting it to expire worthless at
- expiration, and the date is extended, you just got further in the
- hole than you thought.
-
- Remember, the company who issues the warrant truly expects it to be
- worth quite a bit just before expiration.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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