Nowadays I much prefer futures myself but it was a fun time back then for sure. Slinging multiple 1000's of shares of AOL long/short (when it was in the $50's-80's range) and other big board names. Also I dealt with Bob Bright and his former partner Eddie Franco rather than Don.
Yes, I think some guys were doing a GE / AOL pairs trade.... "Slinging" is a great name for what we did. Best Regards, Greg
It was GE/HON merger. They traded that back and forth Don said they had a wake when that fell through.
Straight up, no pairs. AOL, XOM, GE, T etc. Slinging is just NY slang I use. "Bulletts" a type of option play, were used to allow you to go short without an uptick. Don't think you can do that anymore ??
I see you know your stuff and have other posts that relate to trading the open which I will study more, and I put you on Follow. Anything else you would like to share about trading near the open (or any topic) would be especially appreciated. Thank you for the savvy reply.