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Scramble for Tech

By Jim Cramer

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 Oh no, a second time. A second time that all of that juicy premium attracted call sellers who are now going to be frantically trying to bring in their annuity calls -- the Intel October 20s, 21s and 22s, or the Microsoft October 25s and 26s, or the Hewlett-Packard 45s and 46s and 47s and so many other calls that have been great sells forever that are now going to cause you to lose your stock Friday. I never liked selling calls against common stock because I never liked cutting off my upside, like the upside that you will get today in Intel. Moreover, Intel's a really tough call because when these margins expand, earnings tend to expand even stronger giving you a moment where you could pick up five points like that, just like the old days. The idea of losing that upside vs. buying the...

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