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Interesting comments in teh WSJ about some bearish spreads in the XLE Drop in Crude Price Spurs Big Bets on Energy Fund By TENNILLE TRACY...
Sounds like your order ddin't go through for some reason. Can't believe you didn't check to see if you were flat. You're right, it should be easy...
Not trying to deviate too much from the topic of PB, but how many people are actually using porfolio margin accounts? Tehre was a lot of...
I agree with Nazzdak. I would avoid using optins for day trading and focus on futures or equities. Too much slippage and not enough delta. If you...
This is the most active board on futures and options tading, as far as I can tell. You might also try theoptionsinsider.com the futures and...
Cramer does some research and you might be able to get some good ideas from some of his informatoin. I never have. I watched him when he first...
Pit Bull is a great book and written by someone that has some real experience, but it's not a guide to trading success. In fact, if you read his...
Do you have the prices of the SPX when you bought and sold? Can't tell if that's Mountain or Pacific Time. What about the VIX, can you tell...
Here is a possible explanation. Large buyer of MF June 5 puts midday Friday. http://whatstrading.com/2008/06/20/mf-global-ltd-mf-695-1860/
I haven't short term traded the equity index futures much, but have in the TYs. Trading for a couple of ticks here and there is tempting because,...
Or, you can look at it this way, time value affects the extrinsic value of an option. Implied volatility increases the extrinsic value. It has no...
What happens Monday doesn't matter because the options expired. After hours Friday can push the stock in one direction or another and cause...
you might be referring to the put call ratio, which is simply the number of puts traded daily divided by calls. it has no relationship to...
He must have sold puts, not calls because the stock was at $30 Friday and $2 Monday. Selling calls would have been a winner.
there are no stupid ideas. only stupid people. haha. just kidding. naked calls refers to selling options without a position in the stock...
USO holds futures contracts. It tends to underperform crude for that reason, due to the fact that it has to buy longer term contracts and sell...
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As long as people can still find jobs and earn wages, seems like the economy should be able to weather the housing slump. Americans spend what...
Went ex dividend today. That's why the big spike in volume.
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