Trying to break it up into pieces and hiring separate people to work on it will be nearly impossible, how are you going to test the whole thing?...
You're taking on so much risk anyway, you might as well just write naked puts. I mean, if you're going to pay $2 for a 5 strike put, then try...
You keep em compensated well enough to stay with you. I mean, it's either that or you have to have someone program it w/o knowing the strategy,...
Right, this was a $19 stock before the offer. But historically, after a company has a buyout offer, even if that offer is pulled and has little to...
Misinformation! Selling a naked put is not anywhere CLOSE to the same thing as buying calls. (except that both positions result in you being long...
What's ICE's policy for trade breaks?
If he wins control of the board, he can do plenty, such as force a sale of the company. That's only IF he wins though. If he loses, then there's...
If you're banking on Icahn to dump his position, there's a few flaws with that strategy. - He only has 9.9MM shares, which given the volume in...
This time I'm betting against Ichan. I bet with him on motorola, we all saw how that one turned out. (I actually think MOT is good value right...
Yang won't accept $1000 / share. He doesn't want to sell the company. If Ichan gets control of the board though, anything can happen. There's...
What do you guys think about YHOO? I personally think it's going to float around the mid to high 20s until the shareholder meeting. Shorting...
Well, a Bloomberg Terminal is very timely in reporting. ECO < GO > gets you stuff like housing/jobs/CPI ECO 7 < GO > gets you agriculture...
Since you'll probably be at home when you're full time trading, suggesting to your wife to work at a school isn't a bad idea. Teacher's jobs (or...
Your post is stupid. Don't like auto-exercise? Manually and explicitly exercise or lapse your options at 4:01 PM on Expiration Day. You...
wow, they actually have rules against odd lots. Normally when I see things that sound suspicious on ET I assume it's bullshit, given the amount...
Yeah, ok, the specialist is going to call your broker, who's then going to call you.. ok.. that would never happen.
I think specialists have bigger shit to worry about then sending someone a nasty email for sending them odd lots.
There were some wild swings, here's the high/lows im seeing: [img] There's nothing on TOP that seems market moving.
I doubt bloomberg is wrong on this, though it is a bit odd.
YHOO means almost nothing to the NQ [img] As you can see, from the line numbered 21, YHOO is only 1.098% of the index (as of friday's market...
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