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Stories for Lam Research Corp.

Stocks Lower Late, in Middle of Day's Range, as Oil, Banks, Tech Dip - MidnightTrader.com, March 15, 2010
Sector Snap: Chip equipment makers fall - AP, March 15, 2010
MidnightTrader's After-Hours News Movers - MidnightTrader.com, January 27, 2010
Call Selling in Lam Research (LRCX), Call Buying in Akamai (AKAM) and Chesapeake (CHK) - Jared Levy, October 13, 2009
Trading Idea: Lam Research Corporation (LRCX) Debit Spread - the ONN Idea Generating Platform, July 06, 2009
Dollar Tree (DLTR), Omnicare (OCR) and Lam Research (LRCX): Reviewing the Day's Options Activity - Jud Pyle, February 25, 2009

Lam Research Corp. LRCX (NASDAQ) Quotes delayed 20 minutes

Last: 32.68	Chg: 0.00	%Chg: 0.00%	Open: 32.83		Vol: 3.3 M
Bid: 33.73	Ask: 33.74	Size: 2	High: 33.81	Low: 32.79	Avg Vol: 2.8 M

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	Symbol	Shares			Price	Total Cash Required*	Target Gain	ROI	Loss at Stop Loss
Stock Trade	LRCX	100			32.68	$1,634	32.68	200.0%	-$3,268

*Assumes buying stock on margin at 50%; shorting stock on margin at 150%

LRCX: Chart

LRCX: Lam Research Corp.

Industry	Semiconductors
Shares Outstanding	127.9 M
52 Wk Performance Price	40%
Dividend	0.00

Today's High 33.81	P/E --
Today's Low 32.79	EPS -1.62
Open 32.83	Price to Book 12.4
Prev Close 32.68
52 Wk high 41.56	Moving Averages:
52 Wk Low 22.01	21 Day 34.70
Market Cap 4.2 B	50 Day 35.57
Yield 0	200 Day 33.09

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PUT OPTIONS

Bid $	Ask $	Chg $	Vol	Opn Int	Series	Bid $	Ask $	Chg $	Vol	Opn Int

- Mar 10 [2 days to expiration]

16.10	16.40	1.10	0	0	Mar 10 17.5	0.00	0.05	0.00	0	0
13.60	13.90	1.10	0	0	Mar 10 20.0	0.00	0.05	0.00	0	109
11.10	11.40	1.10	0	0	Mar 10 22.5	0.00	0.05	0.00	0	113
8.60	8.90	1.10	1	20	Mar 10 25.0	0.00	0.05	0.00	0	284
3.60	3.90	1.05	2	147	Mar 10 30.0	0.00	0.05	-0.03	0	1211
0.00	0.10	0.00	1,470	3775	Mar 10 35.0	1.20	1.40	-1.05	17	5238
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	3098	Mar 10 40.0	6.10	6.30	-1.10	0	636
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	645	Mar 10 45.0	11.10	11.40	-1.10	0	35
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	2	Mar 10 50.0	16.10	16.40	-1.10	0	0
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	0	Mar 10 55.0	21.10	21.40	-1.10	0	0

- Apr 10 [30 days to expiration]

10.70	11.40	0.70	0	0	Apr 10 22.5	0.00	0.05	0.00	0	0
8.20	8.90	0.75	5	13	Apr 10 25.0	0.00	0.10	0.00	0	0
4.00	4.20	0.95	0	25	Apr 10 30.0	0.25	0.35	-0.20	42	662
0.80	0.90	0.28	165	2929	Apr 10 35.0	2.00	2.10	-0.80	67	509
0.00	0.10	0.00	0	1546	Apr 10 40.0	6.10	6.80	-0.75	3	30
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	0	Apr 10 45.0	11.10	11.80	-0.80	0	11
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	0	Apr 10 50.0	16.10	16.70	-0.75	0	0

- Jun 10 [93 days to expiration]

11.00	11.50	0.85	0	0	Jun 10 22.5	0.10	0.20	0.00	0	81
8.90	9.20	0.90	0	40	Jun 10 25.0	0.25	0.30	-0.07	0	250
4.80	5.00	0.80	0	330	Jun 10 30.0	1.05	1.15	-0.30	10	1030
1.90	2.00	0.43	46	1725	Jun 10 35.0	3.10	3.20	-0.65	5	2393
0.50	0.60	0.15	70	1249	Jun 10 40.0	6.70	6.90	-0.90	0	673
0.10	0.15	0.02	0	778	Jun 10 45.0	11.20	11.70	-0.90	0	282
0.00	0.10	0.00	0	173	Jun 10 50.0	16.10	16.70	-0.85	0	0
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	240	Jun 10 55.0	21.10	21.70	-0.80	0	0
0.00	0.05	0.00	0	40	Jun 10 60.0	26.00	26.70	-0.95	0	0

- Sep 10 [184 days to expiration]

13.30	14.20	0.55	0	0	Sep 10 20.0	0.20	0.30	-0.03	0	54
9.10	9.70	0.75	10	0	Sep 10 25.0	0.70	0.80	-0.15	0	121
5.60	5.90	0.70	0	30	Sep 10 30.0	1.90	2.00	-0.35	147	1060
2.95	3.10	0.53	12	402	Sep 10 35.0	4.10	4.30	-0.55	16	428
1.30	1.35	0.28	0	2653	Sep 10 40.0	7.40	7.60	-0.80	0	62
0.45	0.55	0.07	5	2072	Sep 10 45.0	11.50	12.30	-0.60	0	0
0.15	0.25	0.05	0	0	Sep 10 50.0	16.20	17.00	-0.60	0	0
0.00	0.10	0.00	0	52	Sep 10 55.0	21.10	21.90	-0.65	0	0

- Jan 11 [310 days to expiration]

23.20	24.10	0.75	0	32	Jan 11 10.0	0.00	0.10	0.00	0	143
18.30	19.30	0.70	0	83	Jan 11 15.0	0.15	0.20	-0.02	0	251
16.10	16.90	0.75	0	0	Jan 11 17.5	0.25	0.35	-0.07	0	46
13.90	14.50	0.60	0	0	Jan 11 20.0	0.50	0.60	-0.10	0	267
11.80	12.30	0.70	0	15	Jan 11 22.5	0.85	0.95	-0.12	0	166
10.00	10.40	0.90	0	106	Jan 11 25.0	1.35	1.45	-0.17	17	1494
6.60	6.90	0.75	10	1968	Jan 11 30.0	2.85	2.95	-0.35	0	1443
4.00	4.20	0.55	70	477	Jan 11 35.0	5.20	5.30	-0.55	0	828
2.25	2.40	0.38	0	419	Jan 11 40.0	8.30	8.50	-0.70	0	455
1.15	1.25	0.18	5	234	Jan 11 45.0	12.20	12.40	-0.85	0	426
0.55	0.65	0.10	0	455	Jan 11 50.0	16.60	17.30	-0.60	0	314
0.25	0.35	0.05	0	331	Jan 11 55.0	21.30	22.00	-0.65	0	47

- Jan 12 [674 days to expiration]

11.50	12.20	0.50	0	24	Jan 12 25.0	2.80	3.00	-0.15	0	201
8.80	9.20	0.65	0	0	Jan 12 30.0	4.70	5.00	-0.20	0	14
6.50	6.80	0.60	0	40	Jan 12 35.0	7.30	7.60	-0.25	0	0
4.50	4.90	0.40	0	11	Jan 12 40.0	10.40	10.70	-0.40	11	0
3.20	3.50	0.32	0	239	Jan 12 45.0	13.90	14.50	-0.50	0	53
2.20	2.45	0.28	0	0	Jan 12 50.0	17.90	18.50	-0.40	0	21
1.50	1.65	0.20	0	95	Jan 12 55.0	22.20	23.10	-0.30	0	75