What happens if you have 100 shares of stock X at 10 dollars a share can you sell short 100 shares of stock x at 10 ?
Why would you have a buy imbalance on a stock that the price is falling.
The contract count seems extremely high and it is for February. Sounds pretty risky. With the limited amount of time, the high volatility on the...
anybody here can explain this?
I noticed those to indicators which were really high are real low now. I thought that indicated that money is being lent etc.. what am I...
heh, you should be able to. Etrade has a special sell fractional shares option. but the problem is do you want to waste commission to sell .148...
If the deficit keeps increasing and more tarps like TARP II,III,IV,V happen wont inflation hit very hard? I read that in the late 70s the...
Anyone know what are some of the banks/financials not being nationalized or taking TARP money It seems that they are all falling under this...
Since shares are not traded in fractions where do they come from when dividends reinvest you get something like 40.3583 shares etc.. stocks...
Okay I am reading abit more on this. Contingency orders like AON are permitted by the CBOE I found this interesting little PPT on how orders...
Oh I meant selling calls after buying GE stock to provide the cover (13.08) now I have cash no margin etc.. since I do not trade using margin...
On Etrade pro there is a check box for AON and it did place it. so I guess what happens then is they see this and just throw it out even though...
What if you do this lets say with GE. Sell a Deep in the money call for 1 year (2010 jan) to collect the 9% dividend. As long as GE keeps the...
When you trade options does your order actually go to some guy on the CBOE pit and into the open outcry trading. That would be kind of neat...
Thanks for the info, I bought GE for longterm but if I get my shares sold at 22 I am fine with that as well. I put VIX in as a SWAG I figured...
Another question. Since this option is a little over 5 months do I use the 3 month tbill interest rate to do the calculation of the carrying cost...
Thanks for the details I will keep the premiums and put them in my interest bearing account, maybe buy some more stocks and use the premiums with...
Well it would not be naked, lets say my GE is sold at 22 because the call goes over, wont that be like a limit order but you get paid a premium...
I wrote 4 contracts for 58 cents each which totaled 219 dollars after commissions this was on 400 shares of GE that I bought for 15.60 a couple of...
CSCO,EBAY,GOOG would be considered growth stocks right?
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