EBAY up almost 2% after Cramer touted it last night. Unbelievable how he can move a $50B stock, albeit on volume of around 1% of the average...
These apparent discrepancies are becoming more common. After NFI went ex-div - $1.40 - the front-month calls went down by around $1.10, and the...
ABT is big pharma, like JNJ and MRK. The IV for all of them is usually pretty low. You may have better luck with MRK options, which I've found...
briefing.com can move low-volume stocks by a few percent within a minute. People seemingly blindly follow their advice or claims of a news item....
When I talked to Cybertrader reps at last year's Traders Expo, they said that the Schwabtrader and StreetSmartPro platforms were at the level...
Are you talking about Streamer Charts? They're intraday only, with bars ranging from 1 min - 30 min, so if you want a moving average on the order...
News is a mixed bag. Ameritrade provides press releases and DJ newswires, but not the full Comtex feed. You can only get news for the current...
I see that the CME has a Nikkei 225 futures product, too: http://www.cme.com/prd/eq/nikkei6454.html and in the brochure they claim the...
If you have only a small account (e.g. $15K in day trading buying power), you can have some success in daytrading options that have small spreads...
E*Trade's commissions page claims that option exercises only cost $19.99. Did you do this all online or did you talk to a live broker?
BTW, I took a look at the options... are the option prices for ACAS always this sucky? Spreads generally $1, and all the 25 calls from April...
Been over an hour and a half since my buy. How long until we can be reasonably sure it won't be busted? When this happened with COCO, both last...
There's an article (commentary) about TASR options at http://www.thestreet.com/_mktw/options/stevensmith/10152116.html. Some quotes: Smith...
I wasn't bashing IB. Friday's downtime was the first time in a couple months that I had more than a few-second outage with them, which is pretty...
Problems started for me at: 09:43:52 JTS-Listener2: Unknown broken socket situation. This persisted, looping like this: 10:00:12...
In fact, it's standard procedure when someone orders redundant phone or data lines to their building that the company laying the lines takes care...
It's a break in certain cases, but much of the "marriage penalty" argument is based on the comparison between a joint return and two individual...
Can you trade within the spread with YM options? DIA takes around a minute before they post my option bids/offers, and (at least this past...
That may be true for some brokers, but not all. http://www.mytrack.com/dtfaq.htm , for instance, says (I'm not a mytrack customer; I just found...
The last two high-profile FDA approval cases I've seen where approval was expected (ICOS and IMCL) have both shown moderate sell-the-news...
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