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  1. books on merger arbitrage?

    Looking for suggestions on books to read about merger/acquisition arbitrage. USAI/EXPE/ROOM/TREE are mostly trading in tandem, but not always -...
    Thread by: loufah, May 14, 2003, 2 replies, in forum: Educational Resources

  2. Hedge 'n Hold

    Not to worry :) . What's your next move?
    Post by: loufah, Apr 26, 2003 in forum: Options

  3. What happens to unexpired options when a company is acquired??

    My experience is that, if it's a stock swap, new option series will be issued, e.g. when TMCS was bought by USAI, new options in USAI were...
    Post by: loufah, Apr 25, 2003 in forum: Options

  4. getting filled at an old bid/offer

    Thanks for the replies. Yes, I was using SMART routing, and I do look at the exchange that TWS is showing (and if it's PHLX, I start a 120 second...
    Post by: loufah, Apr 25, 2003 in forum: Options

  5. getting filled at an old bid/offer

    This has happened to me a couple times in the past few months, and since I use IB (where there's no on-screen log of every change you make to an...
    Thread by: loufah, Apr 23, 2003, 7 replies, in forum: Options

  6. Anyone else have bad US equity options quotes from IB??

    I see the purple non-auto-ex quotes (often just right after IB directs the order to that exchange :mad: ... it's kinda like the option specialist...
    Post by: loufah, Jan 13, 2003 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. IB alarms

    I don't use alarms much any more, but I used to get hung a lot when I was in the middle of navigating through an "insert ticker" menu...
    Post by: loufah, Jan 5, 2003 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. Ameritrade(Datek) Direct

    I mostly use Datek to use Streamer - I sometimes trade options, and it's useful to see the bid/ask trend of the underlying. I use IB...
    Post by: loufah, Dec 8, 2002 in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. why no extended-hour session for stock options?

    Well, the specialists need to go home at some point! But it would be very cool to have an out-of-hours market, limited to open interest I...
    Post by: loufah, Dec 8, 2002 in forum: Options

  10. Where do the SEC fees go?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/01SEC.html is an interesting article about how underfunded the SEC is. Here's the real infuriating...
    Thread by: loufah, Dec 2, 2002, 5 replies, in forum: Politics

  11. The first 30 minutes

    One thing I've noticed with ERTS is that it very often hits a peak in the first half hour and then declines for an hour or two. So I do all my...
    Post by: loufah, Nov 15, 2002 in forum: Trading

  12. limit to max spread?

    This was for a Nov call, but all the options seem to have a spread of .50 to 1.00, with most in the 10% to 20% range. The underlying stock is...
    Post by: loufah, Oct 21, 2002 in forum: Options

  13. limit to max spread?

    I've been looking at LSTR options the past couple of days, and I'm surprised the bid/ask spread is so large. Only one exchange handles them, but...
    Thread by: loufah, Oct 21, 2002, 42 replies, in forum: Options

  14. Pattern Day Trade Rules

    I use my IB account only for options (and one nonmarginable stock). So I've never used margin. It seems unfair that I'm held to this rule (and I...
    Post by: loufah, Oct 19, 2002 in forum: Trading

  15. Trading options during the last few days before expiration

    Here's one: 14-JUN-2001 O GLWRC GLW JUN01 15 P CBOE 10 0.1000 -100.00 15-JUN-2001 C GLWRC GLW JUN01 15 P PHLX -10 0.5500 550.00 IIRC,...
    Post by: loufah, Jul 26, 2002 in forum: Options

  16. DIA options extended hours?

    I've started looking at DIA options, and I noticed that (at least according to Streamer), trades seem to be going on after hours. (Today, for...
    Thread by: loufah, Jul 26, 2002, 4 replies, in forum: Options

  17. pink sheets

    Thanks, all. It turns out CHEF is traded on the OTCBB. Not sure why the account rep said it was a pink sheet stock, although it seems that being...
    Post by: loufah, Jul 25, 2002 in forum: Order Execution

  18. pink sheets

    I have some old stock I want to unload, CHEF, and it's on the pink sheets now. I'm using my broker's (not the one who sold it to me; they're out...
    Thread by: loufah, Jul 24, 2002, 8 replies, in forum: Order Execution

  19. streaming news with filtering

    My trading platform lights up icons on my watchlist when new news for a given company appears, but a lot of the time the only news item is spam...
    Thread by: loufah, Apr 4, 2002, 0 replies, in forum: Trading Software

  20. IB Improvements (Part 3)

    I temporarily switched back to 722.4 because of the quote problem with 753 and 754, and was pleasantly surprised to again see quotes appear in...
    Post by: loufah, Mar 6, 2002 in forum: Interactive Brokers
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