OK, CFB, I think it's time to trot out that story of your friend who kept her Intel options, even though they were more than enough to exercise & ER on, because she "wanted to travel"...I don't know if they've done anything about it, but I seriously doubt it. I'm sure they've seen the latest results and compared that to all the market news and figured, "no way we're getting out." And who could blame them?
I'm certainly not going to push it with them. God forbid I convince them to diversify some of their position into the broader market and then watch it go down another 10-15% and then go sideways for quite a while, which is a real possible (maybe even likely) scenario.
I'm sure it's probably a safe play for them and nothing's going to go wrong with the company, but who knows? Especially these days.
Damn thing just keeps going up! (And yes, I am a bit jealous! )
Did she manage to keep her Intel job when you took their ER package?