What kny was saying is that though you saw the last traded price as $85 before the halt, that is not necessarily the price the OCC will use to...
Thanks for the ET link. From the discussions there, it appears the broker would exercise the options, and wait till Monday morning to close the...
Does anyone know what happens when a stock (like HAR on Friday) is halted on options expiration day, and you do not have a chance to close your...
Weekly Update for week 30 ended 09/21/2007 Another week to look beyond. Almost looks like a predictable pattern these days. At least I could...
100 could get you more than 3.3 times the number of contracts that you could with 30, with risk at the same level, and therefore 3.3 times the...
For that particular trade, it was awful. You would think, that with a share volume of 7million shares for the day, it would be easy getting out of...
Well said about doubling up when winning to balance out the potential negative from doubling down. In reality I have no urge to average up,...
In general the answer is NO. Do not day-trade options. The costs (commissions but especially the bid/ask spread) is too much to overcome. If an...
Why stick that in my face? I have told you it is a habit I picked up I am fighting to get rid of. Why do you say I believe in it?
Yes, the idea to automate the position sizing, position monitoring and stop-loss component is borne of the fact that so far I havent been able to...
I think the market had me cornered. See the price of the same stock now (11.54, I covered at 12.60). If I had the guts to stay till now, the loss...
That is exactly what my system is meant to accomplish. I will let the program determine the size based on stocks volatility (at this time I shall...
Weekly Update for week 29 ended 09/14/2007 The sad event reported this week actually happened for the most part on Friday last week. Once...
That's interesting to know. Yet they are enforcing the laws.
Thanks for telling us almost everything we wanted to know about you. I give you credit for telling it like it is. The markets may have become...
How did you dig this up? He seems to be an old-timer that has accumulated an awful amount of trading capital.
Try doing what the others suggested: doubling in your short positions as the market moved higher (assuming you have a sizeable account that can...
I did just that, and looked up his prior posts and PDFs after he posted. It was obvious he is not for real. Even his demeanour shows that.
Total posts 10005. You just crossed the 10,000 posts count. I think ET should pay you five dollars per post.
Hmmm
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