Recent content by overkil2

I also got burned by EWZ. Lost about 20% of my account. I learned a very valuable lesson though.

Sad there isn't much interest.

Why not? It's free. I've had an AOL e-mail since I joined the internet. It's the e-mail account that I've had for about 20 years now. While you change internet companies, etc, I prefer to have consant e-mail address. They stopped charging for e-mail addresses a long time ago and even when...

Yeah, I kinda noticed this as well. The only place I've seen worse is the young Widow and Widower board. :(

I use optionsfirst at scottrade. I spoke with them about their commissions and they were able to lower my rate a little bit. $7.00 + $0.75 per contract. I'm thinking about switching to optionshouse.

Well, EWZ up $0.98 as we speak. I'll take my little profit and run.

Nevermind. Everything looks good today.

Hi, sorta new and wanted to ask a question. On Firday at around 3:45pm EST, I opened up 4 positions in RUT/SPX/EWZ/FXI. There was a little movement and my account showed daily loss of about 350ish and YTD loss of about 480ish. I also have about 5 credit spreads in there. Well, I...

What do you guys think of EWZ? I think I'm going to jump in later this afternoon.

I would sell half and play with the house's money, but that's just the poker player in me. I'm new to trading, but the one thing that I've read over and over again is don't get greedy. What were your expectations? How much did you think you would make on it and if you've achieved that, why...

I just called my broker and this was confirmed by him. I have until 4:30pm EST to call him and give him instructions not to exercise that option.

Yes.

Thanks again for everyone's help. The most that I have done thusfar is covered calls and selling puts to get a stock at a good value should it be exercised. I've been reading a lot more about options, but still trying to digest it all.

I use amazon to check pricing once I decide on buying an item. I was looking at a laptop. It was 1499 at compusa and most places, Amazon had it for 1449. Take into account the 7% sales tax I would be saving($101) + free shipping if you are willing to wait a few extra days, it's really a...