Mohtalim

all my options are above water for the first time in years. weird. eerie.

SELL! SELL NOW! Actually, Intel is going to be raking in the dough with AMD lagging behind so much, so maybe wait to see how much more it could go up?

On a side note, my options continue to be under water, even the ones issued about a month ago that I can't sell for a year anyway! UGH! Every year we get more options and every year the stock seems to be down 20% from the previous year

Yeah, looks like that didn't last or is back to being barely true... I think the stock will trade sideways for a week or two and probably go up after the new year when people realize that a lot of computers were bought for Christmas with Intel chips inside since Intel chips are better currently.

It seems like it's a blue chip market lately with everything being bounced all over the place.

and now we're back to crap.

Yep, along with the rest of the market. It's all macro stuff with the credit markets falling apart that's killing everything. Did you sell? I hope you didn't listen to me :-\

I don't see any point in exercising options until you need the cash unless you've got a lot of value and want to get the capital gains tax. Even when my options were over water, most of them were not worth a lot. So no, I didn't sell any. The stock I have outright I am holding onto for capital gains reasons.

Note to Intel: stop announcing record revenue. Nobody likes that. And increased dividends are a no-no, too.