Recent content by NickelPincher

if, by your comment, u mean it would be easy money to a seller of this option, then you are correct. the problem with this great money making idea is that NO ONE is willing to buy them, hence the no bids.

maybe it's just me but i get this feeling that u shouldn't be trading options just yet.

the irs didn't miss anything, it is YOU that missed the irs regulation in pub 550. http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch01.html#en_US_publink100010074 more specifically this paragraph Holding period reduced where risk of loss is diminished. When determining whether you met the...

blackjack is 100% correct. i'm sick of all these new terms and names they come up with for different option strategies just to make them more retail friendly. they must have saw how much commish they made from naive retail custys using covered calls and figured if they paint more pretty names...

maybe i don't understand your question, but just curious how old u really are? i don't know why u think everyone borrows money, but how is this for an answer... instead of borrowing, get a real job and use your income to pay back the loan to the bank and get off the borrowing treadmill.

perhaps it was overlooked but those trades that u referred to, from day one and day two, for quick gains of $1250 and $5000 were paper trades. i don't care what paper trading system u were using, but almost all are very generous in their executions. in a real account, i doubt u could get...

do backup copies of nintendo wii games count?

yeah, yeah, ur a deadbeat, blah blah blah... now that i got that outta the way, i don't understand what u expect. as long as that money is in ur brokerage account, it's as good as gone. that's a given. u can hope and pray they don't take it, but the odds are against u. boy if u use that...

see what i mean...now i don't know if that picture is real or fake!

and here i was, about to ask coolweb to post pics of his hot wife or girlfriend. but now i'll be wondering if they are real or fake.

buy order at 1340.25 with a sell stop at 1330.75, target 1349.50

take it easy on the new guy. i'll welcome him, cuz we need new players to even out the zero-sum game.

i'm just curious, but how much is it off by? just a few dollars or a significant %?

HolyGrail nailed it on the head. it's doing the opposite. or from the link above... George discovered that by doing the opposite of what his emotions and intellect were telling him to do he could be successful.

George Costanza Method