Recent content by cmhackett

It amazes me how many people are still falling for Bernanke's bullcrap. Market fundamentals are awful - high unemployment, QE2 (and probably QE3, QE4, QE9713, etc), a deficit out of control and growing, and a monstrous debt owned by our chief economic competitors. Ben can pump and pump and...

Judging from the fact that "Anion" just registered this month, and all of his 3 posts are part of this thread, and that he simply regurgitated his 1st statement when others asked questions (without answering their questions at all) - I'd say he's just trying to steer people away from IB for some...

If ghettotrade *sold* the put contracts (which he said he did) and they're DITM (which he said they were), when he gets assigned he will be losing a good bit of money...aka, buying the 600 shares @ $64 when they are worth less than that on the open market. However, unless the option buyer...

From anyoption's terms: 2.3 The use of the Site is <b>solely designated for sophisticated users with the ability to sustain swift losses </b> up to total loss of the invested money and/or the securities. Client is responsible for careful consideration whether such Transactions suit him and...

An interesting post, and very thought-provoking...a couple of points/questions... In the example above, your probability is based on expected value of the underlying at expiration. What about strategies that don't rely on expiration though? Although butterflies/condors/etc rely on the...

That's a fairly ignorant/rude/pointless thing to say. I for one find the trade analyses useful, I'm fairly new (a year or two) to options trading and have found learning opportunities through following some of live's (and other members) posts. Instead of bashing people without reason...

I'm not positive that this is relevant, but perhaps your forced liquidation/sell-off was related to or influenced by the "wild market swings" as described in the news report below? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/07/obama-authorities-investigating-wild-market-swing/

I'm rather regretting the $37 May 10 call I wrote against my 100 shares 2 months ago for $5.95 :(

Good afternoon, I'm trying to learn more about spreads and straddles and have come across the following situation "virtual-trading" ITMN: On 3/18: Bought one Jul 10 39.00 Call option for $8.70 Bought one Jul 10 37.00 Put option for $7.80 Around 3/23, the stock price for ITMN climbed...

The Goonier, I accidentally posted twice, sorry - the replies are in my thread titled "Trading credit spread - example question".

First of all, thank you to everyone who replied, I appreciate your time in helping me out. @TheGoonior: 40 contracts isn't necessarily the figure that I would choose if I decided to enter this trade, I just used that as the example since that's what my available margin could cover - I...

Good morning, I'm relatively new to trading spreads, I've done a good bit with covered calls and some of your more basic options strategies though. I encountered a scenario that appears to be favorable for a spread and wanted confirmation that I wasn't screwing up my calculations. :)...

Good morning, I'm relatively new to trading spreads, I've done a good bit with covered calls and some of your more basic options strategies though. I encountered a scenario that appears to be favorable for a spread and wanted confirmation that I wasn't screwing up my calculations. :)...