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Likes: (1) Great news feed (2) Times and sales for option contracts and foreign securities (like Japanese stocks, HK stocks, etc) (3)...
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Buying calls and shorting stock is equivalent to being long puts. Thus, you may want to spare all of the trouble and just buy puts.
But could this strategy also be an electronically generated order?
Ex-dividend date 12/4/2002 Dividend 64 cents
Traded small in JPM today. Totally illiquid. Better off with the underlying stock.
The problem is that the AMEX's policies allow these "games" to happen. Thus, if there is no penalties for pursuing this type of behavior, some...
Wouldn't know since I trade the NQ instead.
I have been on Susquehanna's upstairs trading floor a few times (their old Philly office and their Bala Cynwyd office). Unlike the stogy...
Even though they claim to be AUTOEX, the specialist still has the right to "freeze" the order before executing it. Thus, he/she can always...
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Suppose you have $10,000 in your account. XYZ is a $10 stock. The call price is $1 and the put price is $1 (based on put call parity). In the...
Sometimes you cannot borrow the stock that you want to short. Thus, the synthetic short will allow you to short the stock that you would otherwise...
E*Trade Bank appears to be doing well, too, compared to the brokerage part of the business.
You have to be a extremely weathly. Then you can call your investment banker (i.e., Goldman, Lehman, etc.) and have them quote whatever option you...
Make sure that you understand the deliverables for each option (i.e., the CLT options will include C, TAP.A, TAP.B, and cash). Make sure that...
The problem is that the retail margin requirements do not treat the margin for the position as $500 per contract as it should.
Open a DVP account. Then you can trade anywhere (as long as the executing broker has an agreement with your clearing broker).
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