Yea, you see what desperation people resort to when they discover they cant trade worth *. They start lying about results to investors, become snake oil vendors, start pumping penny stocks, start living a fantasy of super-trader on ET (least evil
least evil, but obnoxious as hell. There's a great example right now, with one very loud-mouthed ego-freak who has managed to disgust everybody, so now he posts to his thread all by his lonesome and nobody there to listen. Pathetic, but common. g
ahhh yeah -- he took all the cheaper puts offered until there was nothing left but his offer at 5... i was wondering that, myself, too...
Unless the order was routed directly to ISE, wouldn't an options market maker get first crack at filling a market order? I'm sure a market maker would have been all over this.