http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/mc-dc-toomey-debt-20110216,0,1127935.story "Toomey says the ceiling can be hit and the United States would...
Well, this is confusing... http://www.finra.org/Investors/SmartInvesting/AdvancedInvesting/DayTrading/P005906 "Day trading in a cash account...
Well, since the PDT rule is for margin accounts and not cash accounts, this isn't as restrictive as I thought it was, but then again I prefer...
Well, I just wished that my broker made it more "efficient" to not exercise an option. On my broker's web platform, I see no way to opt out of...
Well, Mister Black Swan himself, Nassim Taleb, is very biased towards long options. His firm Empirica used only long far out of the money...
Care to mention them or was that just a tease? :p
I'd like to revisit this topic. I remember reading here about an option owner being forced to exercise his long options. On expiration day, he...
I would agree with the renminbi, but how liquid is the renminbi? Also, what does he mean buy the panic? No one in their right mind would buy...
So are the new prices just for new customers or everyone?
Well it's not too bad, Japan has a higher debt/GDP ratio of almost 200%. The US just have around a measly 100% of gdp. :p
Does anyone remember Friendster?
For what it's worth, I thought the original post was about self trading doubt and reassessment. I didn't really see anything arrogant about it. I...
I wondering where in the SEC's regulation specifies that this is illegal. It's also hard to prove that someone cancels an order to manipulate the...
Thanks for the clarifications. I think I would rather side with the old timer's dual usage of the term "naked". :)
For some reason, I thought any single option position is considered naked whether long or short... :p Perhaps someone should tell this guy that he...
I am pretty baffled with the profit to loss ratios on long spreads and long naked options. Example: XLF (currently at $16.51) Jan 2012 puts:...
When I was mixing and matching options like chess pieces, there were a few times I thought to myself I was a millionaire! Luckily, I kept my silly...
13000+ would mean almost a 100 percent gain in roughly 2 years -that would scare the beejeezus out of me. When was the last time something like...
Is there a third party program that allows you to download intraday historical quotes from TDameritrade, preferably as a csv file? Their programs...
Ah, I figured out what happened at the NYSE on Thursday. It went into "slow mode" on certain stocks, but those particular stocks continued trading...
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