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Cant figure this out, news articles just state when the articles themselves were posted, not the actual time of the announcements. Does anyone have any idea when it actually happened?

Google: "Mergers and Acquisitions", "M&A". Or check sites that carry Economic Calendars, Earnings Announcements, or Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades. Many of those also cover M&A.

Market, but I only trade in the most actively traded penny increment spread atm options. The atm spreads are almost always one cent, or two at the most. You've really got to get several points out before you see a spread of even three to five cents. I also buy slightly in the money, picking my...

When I am trading calls or puts in place of getting long or short of the underlying I use the same stops I would use for the underlying. I set conditional orders to exit the option based on the price of the underlying. As per money management and position sizing, I round down my options...

And if we see the sub-pennies, what then? I've read articles that saying the sub-pennies have something to do with hft front running the nbbo under the guise of providing price improvement, but with the climate of mistrust and blame regarding hft, I do not know what to make of it. I don't...

As with the prior interruption of your thread, your question only brings one word to mind: depends. I do not incorporate level two into my strategies at all anymore, but others might still use it. Many things have changed like ecns with hidden orders, soes, decimalization, those really impacted...

I use GLD (ETF) or GC (Futures), but I only use gold prices as part of my intermarket analysis, I don't trade gold. There may be better.

Wasn't that yesterday?

Have you ever considered trading the near the money option instead of the underlying in that situation? The typically 0.5'ish delta would generally reduce your risk by about half.

I am interested as well. sle, would you mind elaborating? Excellent questions Jerkstore, by the way.

By that statement alone, it sounds like your problem, possibly and likely among others, is that you're trading too many shares at a time and you cannot stomach the risk. Reduce your size until you can accept that risk in stride without flinching. How often would you say that you are actually...

The number of shares or contracts does not matter, you could buy ten, sell ten, on the same day, and that is one round trip. If you buy ten, sell nine, and then sell the last one, on the same day, that is two round trips.

Are you specifically attempting to exploit the fact that an instrument is illiquid? If so, I can't help you there, as I do not trade in illiquid instruments, I specifically avoid them. Also, by transaction costs, are you only implying commissions, or have you also accounted for wide bid ask...

I trade options as a replacement for the underlying when I intend on holding a position overnight. I usually only buy calls or puts by themselves. The price of the underlying relative to the strike, and the amount of time to expiration is all I really look at. I typically do not even look at the...