Recent content by kny3

I hope Charley got out of his position OK. This was one of the biggest non-events I've seen in a while. One of the news services had a story this morning about ABK, saying that a stock nobody followed a year ago, trading below $10, is now one of the pivotal stocks to move the market...

McMillan, then Natenberg. kny 3 :cool:

Maybe not. Depending on what's left over, you may get $0.60 or $0.92 on the dollar for amounts over $100k. But they may have to sell the assets, that could take months or a year or two. kny 3 :cool:

Yup. Most firms have "excess SIPC", that's insurance from 3rd parties, not covered by SIPC. That could be interesting too. Cash & positions can be ties up for days, weeks or months if SIPC steps in. So you are insured but you don't want to be involved in one of these. kny 3 :cool:

Hello. I think the 30-yr was a little under 7%, the 10 yr a little under 5%. I don't think he did this looking at the return, I think he wanted to buy the shares > 10% lower. I can't remember if KO had 37.50 strikes back then, but ~10% O-T-M (35 strike) not real aggressive if you really want...

Hey Chance 360. Other advise you've been told here good, especially one about options being a derivative. So bullish or bearish on a stock leads you into bullish or bearish option strategy in stock, ETF or Index. I'd do 3 things, pretty cheap & simple. Get Michael Thomsett "Getting...

I am a complete idiot, thanks, but that's not the point of this. The original post by Neke asked "does anyone know what happens when a stock is halted & you don't have a chance to close the position...?". My example said "If, for example" the stock was trading at $102... . Neke then asked...

Not necessarily. The OCC won't exercise them unless they are notified that they should do so. What % of traders and investors contacted their broker and said "Exercise the O-T-M 95 put?" Some thought they were worthless, others like you thought they would be exercised automatically bacause...

Why would you exercise them? Because when the stock stopped and didn't re-open, they were in-the-money. The OCC will exercise them automatically for you. kny 3 :cool:

Spindro, This is part of the quote from the OCC "...HAR Expiration Exercise Procedures September series of HAR options expire September 22, 2007. For purposes of calculating a price for use in expiration processing, OCC WILL USE THE LAST AVAILABLE HAR PRICE FROM SEPTEMBER 21, 2007. OCC...

http://www.optionsclearing.com/market/infomemos/2007/sep/23576.pdf Here's what it means. For example, let's say HAR was at $102 and it stopped trading mid-day expiration Friday. It's trading at $85 OTC Friday afternoon. If you own the 100 call, or the 95 or 90 call, you do not have to...

Depends what you're trying to do. try ivolatility.com their free stuff is alright. kny 3 :cool:

Hey nravo. It's been a few years, but the top 50 or so most active stocks had decent liquidity. I could be mistaken but I think each contract covers 1,000 shares. The ASX web site has a lot of info. http://www.asx.com.au/ good luck kny 3 :cool: PS Nobody, and I mean...

fielman, Most brokerage firms have pretty good info at their educational area, cboe.com has volume, 888options has a little. kny 3 :cool:

Hi Fielman. MTE right about ITM, ATM , OTM & further out in time. If you're doing doing small volume you could probably do any of the top 1000/3000 options products. Why you would want to do this, beats me. kny 3 :cool: :confused: