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- From: markr@mot.com (Mark)
- Subject: Re: Warrents
- Reply-To: markr@mcil.comm.mot.com
- Organization: MCIL
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:40:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.094003.11358@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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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?
- >
- >>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)
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- Mark
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