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<DIV><FONT size=2>Anyone have any idea of why they name the option symbols they
way they do.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>For example: Yhoo base symbols, <FONT size=2>YHU, YHM,
YHV, YMM, OGZ, and who knows what else.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Yes, I know, someone will say, as the cboe does, it's because
there are so many of them, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>80,000+. It would seem to be a matter of simple
mathematics. Base symbol for each stock</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>is three characters: 26 X 26 X 26 = 17,576 available slots for
the nyse, amex, and nasdaq.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>There are, I believe, around 16,000 nyse, amex, and nasdaq
stocks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>This doesn't include the use of the 0-9, which would quite
significantly increase the amount</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>of slots available. Besides, they don't trade options on
all the stocks, anyway, probably </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>around 3,000 to 5,000. The indexes would be
insignificant. It sure would be nice to not </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>have to keep looking up all those ridicules root symbols for
each stock! I would submit</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>for YHOO the ONLY root they really need is YHO, and that's
it. YHOAA thru YHOZZ</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>would more than provide enough slots for the options, if not,
use YHOA thru YHOZZ, or</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>how about YHO0 thru YHOZZ.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Kohath</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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Forum,
I use a couple of different ISP's for trading via the PMB website. Neither
of them can reliably (day in and day out) maintain a secure connection with
the PMB site. By this I mean there are often interminable delays (30 -60
seconds to refresh the All Activity Screen) which often end in the dreaded
"Cannot make connection with Server" capitulation. Obviously this had
nothing to do with modem speed, cable vs analog phone or DSL, etc. It has
everything to do with the route to the website as well and the number of hits
(presumably) PMB's servers are taking at any given moment. I am about to go
back to the old fashioned phone method (and those dreaded humans) unless
someone can offer hope that there is/are ISP's out there who can get thru to
Chicago and stay there!
Dave
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