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摘要

A tall, trim young man, Thorn Prudente, called the class to order. "Today, we're going to learn about advanced option strategies, right?" The room sank into anxious silence. Had I wandered into the new movie Boiler Room? Then, Prudente smiled and said: "Just kidding." Chief of the Charles Schwab office in Melbourne, near my Florida home, Prudente was about to lead me and five other amateurs in a decidedly basic seminar about online investing.