Recent content by msd87

What safe guards prevent this from happening all the time. A group of investors could acquire majority over time.

What would happen if you acquired majority interest in a public company, then took over board and took company private. You'd have to buyout remaining shareholders, of which you'd be the majority shareholder, so you could vote on the buyout price. Who would then own the company, the debt...

Look into PCX, it is 10-13 dollar range and it is nothing for it to swing 5-8% in a short time period in the day. I have made profits on it sort of scalping options on it daily... I compare PCX to a wild bull, if you can figure out how to ride it, you've got it made.

Have not backtested strategy for 12 years, don't want to wait that long to get involved (j/k I see you are talking about previous data). That is the reason I posted, was to try and figure out how the weekend time value is factored in, if at all & if its worth the buy back and commissions to...

How does one measure the decay of an options time value? Not real knowledgable on the Greeks, I'm thinking that may be the answer... Anyways, I've been writing weekly covered calls OTM letting them expire (if underlying moves ITM, roll it to next weekly). I'm trying to calculate whether it...

Just wondering if there is some info out there on when options contracts become available. For example, the stock in question is BBT, I am wondering when some of the 2012 months options will become available to trade... anybody know a website or other source of this info?

I did not realize that, I know that it gives me some downside protect... I don't have a good understanding of the Greeks, where could I get some good info on the greeks? I was assuming if the price on underlying moved down, the value of the put would cover downside of the 100 shares.... Strategy...

Update on my strategy previously posted above.... Didn't work due to the market in general gettin smacked down (thanks Europe). I'm down approx 23% right now, didn't help that my underlying also lowered guidance. But!!! Since my original strategy failed, I thought about how I could hedge the...

Kind of scary the sentiment towards the strategy... May rethink it. It is a good point that in both positions (covered call & short the put) that if the underlying goes down drastically I will be in a losing position. My safety net against this was to only sell weeklies.... Meaning that I can...

Wanted some insight from some of you more experienced option traders, as I'm relatively new to options, on a strategy I plan to begin implementing. The strategy is basic, only using covered calls and cash secured puts on weekly options contracts. Basically my goal is to sell cash secured puts...