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OnClose

Registered: Nov 2010
Posts: 391

09-23-12 04:00 PM

cdcaveman

Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 3518

09-23-12 05:42 PM

Quote from OnClose:

http://www.businessinsider.com/opti...g-glitch-2012-9

gosh my mistakes are only a couple hundred bucks.. and barely forum worthly haha.. jealous haha

Peternam

Registered: Aug 2010
Posts: 572

09-23-12 06:22 PM

is this a strategy small traders like us can in participate ?

cdcaveman

Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 3518

09-23-12 06:41 PM

Dividend arbitrage..... look it up....these guys exploit it for pennies... and it indeed that the calls don't already have the dividend priced in

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