So if I owned 1000 shares of MSFT (~27k worth), great I OWN it. But what does my 0.000000102...% stake get me? I don't have much swing when it...
that is correct http://www.888options.com/help/faq/splits.jsp?prt=etrade#2 You can also search the occ linked above for the term bankruptcy and...
not exactly, but it's really close ;)
[toung in cheak] So you're saying what, that they'll cancel each other out? [/toung in cheak]
No I'm not intimately familar with buyouts and I've avoided anything to do with buyouts for the last 7 years because of that. I'm also not...
ok I'd like to learn then. I've been scouring the SEC site but am having a hard time finding anything that exactly matches this situation....
Right, and who says it wasn't the company doing the buyout buying the shares. What's illegal about that?
Sorry, I was actually replying to Scalper007's accusation that it must be illegal trading that lead the price up and offered a more plausible...
Is it possible that KKR was the one that ran the price up? If I was going to buy something outright at a premium and I had the chance to by part...
Buy it back.
I hate jumping on threads like this, but if you put me in first position on your title, I'll give you a decent rate up to around 90% LTV. (ok,...
arrg, but you have to buy twice the number of calls. decay per 2 calls = decay per 1 call + 1 put -100 shares + 2 calls EXACTLY EQUALS 1 call...
You're describing the Anti-Martingale betting strategy. Here's some reading for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_strategies
I've always wondered what that 3k meant. For example... 2005 return -10k, claim -3k, roll -7k 2006 return +20k -7k was carried over to...
DXL - Dow/10
Nitpicking details, but according to this site (and it's links to the Bureau of the Public Debt) it appears to only be about 28.6k per person, but...
This months Fortune issue had an interesting article titled Exellence. They talked about the idea of the "Ten year rule", in that it is a rough...
The TOS platform has this built in to the portfolio monitor page and will beta weight all the greeks to any underlying you'd like, including...
Right, look at a three year chart of the SPX. We are smack against the upper trend line. We could ride it higher, but probabilities would have...
I stated stocks with Fidelity (free gold account from my employer), then went with TOS for options. Now I'm looking at moving my Fid to IB and...
Separate names with a comma.