I usually trade indexes, but sometimes I'll dabble in momentum stocks - earnings, bad news, Cramer pumps, etc. - companies I haven't researched...
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB116978080268188623.html SEC and Others Fear Hedge-Fund Strategy May Subvert Elections Private...
I will not daytrade options whose spread is 1.5% of the underlying. I will not daytrade options whose spread is 1.5% of the underlying. I will...
Broker Group Raises Concerns About Options Penny Pilot NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--With the options industry gearing up for a test of a sweeping...
PD bought N today, and there's a site http://phelpsdodgeinco.com/ for the new company, and the domain was registered June 12! I wonder if anybody...
With VIX at $15.70, July $12.50 calls were $3.00x$3.40. With VIX up to $16.45, the options are up to $3.20x$3.60. My platform says delta should...
BUSH PRESSES FED CHIEF FOR HIKE IN APPROVAL RATING by Andy Borowitz In what insiders described as a heated, occasionally testy Oval Office...
From http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885307/000121716006000029/jcs1amendment5.htm , a Form S-1/A for an offering JCTCF is making: In...
Is there add-on charting software that will work with IB TWS's backfill that will suck in intraday bid & ask data for an option and its underlying...
The difference between these two has varied by around .25 today. The April future is getting more expensive relative to the March. Is this...
From the WSJ: WASHINGTON -- Embattled mortgage finance company Fannie Mae announced Friday that the New York Stock Exchange recently granted...
Have been following the SFCC saga since Bloomberg started their series of negative articles. It's pretty amazing how much they spin things....
Is there a greek that denotes the expected change in IV as the underlying moves? For instance, SFCC is going up today, so the IV is going down....
If you sell an option at market, you can actually receive less than $.05. I sold some APPX Dec 40 calls this morning and got $.02 for them....
From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113167728332394467.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo (which should be readable by anybody for a little while),...
With near the money options, puts usually have a higher extrinsic value than calls - greater risk of a sudden drop, upcoming dividend, etc. But...
When a long call I own is exercised at expiration, what's the effective purchase date of the underlying, for long-term capital gains purposes?...
If Milberg were public, I bet they'd be suing themselves right now. From today's WSJ: Federal prosecutors are investigating one of the...
I'll also ask this on a Verizon Wireless forum, but I figured people here are more likely than most to be using Verizon's Broadband Access...
I bought some front-month SPY puts on Monday, and am surprised at how much they're dropping in value even though the market is declining each day....
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