Interesting how this is up on such a negative day, perhaps on the DNA news. Trajan, I would be interested to know how you are playing this.
Sunnie, That show is actually very entertaining. Especially since you know what the players are holding and get to see how they think about...
I have posted this before many moons ago, so forgive the duplication if it seems vaguely familiar. A friend of mine has a business, and his...
This is probably old hat to many, but the notion of selling some long assets and replacing them with calls seems to make sense at this juncture....
Everyone wishes they had Nitro's cash, in fact at one time it probably was their cash and Nitro took it from them in the markets. LOL Trajan,...
Chris, yeah 5k open interest is not too bad if it is not one or two blocks. And if the same 100 or so contracts is trading each day next week....
i stay away from the smaller stocks in general, poor liquidity, especially in the options is one of the bigger reasons. I have charted some of...
Way back when there were a few option screeners on the web that would let you screen for free. And of course a handful of pay sites. I used to...
Chris, Try this free site http://www.coveredcalls.com/ In theory the stocks they have with the high premium have the highest volatility....
AAA, Once again a good point on the option market makers. A retail trader can not sit on the bid and ask at the same time. Even if he has...
That's right AAA, maybe we could go back to just MA BELL and .25 per minute for calls, Wal-Mart could no longer compete with Target, and K-Mart...
Let me see, ISLD has better executions than NYSE or AMEX. ISE is better than CBOE, PHLX. So what does the great capitalist system do, screw the...
Seems just like the nonsense with taking the ETFs off of Island because the poor piggies at Amex were losing market share. This whole thing...
I wonder if our "leaders" would be a little more in touch with reality if the Alcohol and Tobacco Lobby weren't filling pockets in Washington. Oh...
I picked up a book this weekend called "Telling Lies and Getting Paid" by Michael Konik. It is a compilation of various gambling stories and sort...
Here are a few interesting links. Doing a Key Word search for "Income Tax Reform" can bring some interesting albeit disturbing reading. Some of...
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