Recent Content by drosengarden

  1. Options - how does this work?

    Jun, Sorry about that - the Strike Price of the calls I sold are $16.00. So in fact the calls were ITM by a little under $0.06/share. From...
    Post by: drosengarden, Sep 10, 2008 in forum: Options

  2. Options - how does this work?

    Jun, Here they are (thanks in advance!) Purchased 2700 Shares @ $16.0589 (average price) Sold 27 Call Contracts @ $1.80 Purchasing power...
    Post by: drosengarden, Sep 10, 2008 in forum: Options

  3. Options - how does this work?

    So I have an account with Scottrade. Apparently I cannot do naked calls or naked puts with them. Either way - I purchased some stock and...
    Thread by: drosengarden, Sep 10, 2008, 12 replies, in forum: Options

  4. Short Selling during pre and after hours market times

    I'm assuming that's a slam. Gee - thanks! And if not - would you please be so kind as to enlighten me?
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 30, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  5. What about this for a strategy?

    So several of you have enlightened me to naked calls. I guess I understood the concept - just not realizing that's basically what I was creating....
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 29, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. What about this for a strategy?

    So what I think I'm reading is that you sell a call WITHOUT owning the underlying stock? CAN YOU DO THAT? And also, wouldn't it be safer to do...
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 29, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. What about this for a strategy?

    Admittedly - I am new - so be gentle with me, please. I bruise easily. But here's my latest brain scheme: Find a high volume, volitile...
    Thread by: drosengarden, Aug 29, 2008, 7 replies, in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Short Selling during pre and after hours market times

    Actually - I just had a response from www.ChoiceTrade.com Here is the response: Dear Sir, Yes we do allow short selling in after hours...
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 29, 2008 in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. Short Selling during pre and after hours market times

    I am with Scottrade currently. They do not allow a short sell order during after hours and pre market hours. Are there any good, strong,...
    Thread by: drosengarden, Aug 29, 2008, 4 replies, in forum: Retail Brokers

  10. Big call volume in MCD

    So look at NAT for instance. Are you telling me that I could have purchased NAT on the VERY day it was x-div (that being 8/18/08) and then sold...
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 20, 2008 in forum: Options

  11. Big call volume in MCD

    So are you saying that if I actually outright purchased a stock the day before ex-div - I'm good for dividend - but outright purchase of stock ON...
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 20, 2008 in forum: Options

  12. Dividend capture with deep ITM calls

    Can you give any examples? It would seem even if you go deeper in the money on the calls that you would collect a bid premium that would make...
    Post by: drosengarden, Aug 20, 2008 in forum: Options