You are correct, you are not long the downside in the pure sense of the meaning of a short. However, the main question is how to short in an IRA....
The revelation and the reality that chance plays in day to day life isn't anything new. Taleb merely gives another point of view amongst a sea of...
Here's a really good New Yorker article about Taleb. It goes into his meeting with Niederhoffer and the impact that meeting had upon him as well...
Yeah, an election of Hamas by the Palestinians and an outright hatred for America and Israel. The Iranian people at large are more moderate and...
Any time milk and bottled water are more expensive than oil/energy you need to take note. How dangerous is it to milk a cow? How many cow's...
The reality is that tapping more of the sources here in this country doesn't make economic sense until oil levels out at above the 50 a barrel...
Sell covered call and go long the put, a collar. You have locked the stock at current level. You have sold off your upside and gone long the...
No, Bernake not speaking today, but it is coming. FOMC minutes will be on the 21st. Then Mr. Bernake takes center stage on March 28.
No. Try JPN for Japan Index on CBOE. Many of the ETF's are still in their infancy and options aren't activly traded or even offered at...
Market currently "baking in" a 5% Fed funds rate. DOW 10,800 support trying to hold. Question is how long of a support will it be? Even if...
I was just curious if any of the options traders here have been using the P/C ratios over the past 6 months or so for signals on current market?
Usually not a good choice to buy any options if you haven't based the purchase upon a strategy. At least a little technical analysis of the...
Let me start with a simple question. Why and how did you decide upon the 35 strike and March time horizon?
Because foreign buyers are sitting on the long end buying it up, keeping yields low. I've heard reports have that activity valued at around...
You'll learn nothing much worth trading with as far as options are concerned in college. Options are probably one of the most "self-motivation...
Interesting, oil and nat. gas correlation is a non-starter. If oil breaches back to 40 levels, there's not gonna be any stocks worth a damn,...
I suggest you buy some books and start reading. Your answers lie in those pages. I'm not trying to be condescending. I'm just trying to...
I have been long KMP (pipelines limited partnership) as well as KMI. I think you will find the energy sector will probably be very stable over...
I am not familiar with Ameritrade, but have used and still do use Scottrade for one of my accounts. I assume they are pretty similar in their...
In my case the response to your question is yes, kinda. I really don't have a written in stone plan (maybe I should), but I do have a constructed...
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