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    Why did I not get an assignment notice?

    You bot GE at a multi year bottom and then you sold calls 4 days before expiry under the current price? Why? You lucked out twice when they they closed .14 OTM. You'll get get to sell them again. Are you doing any tax planning - you'll have a large capital gain. Did you mean to protect...
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    Why was GM paying dividends all these years?

    GM is heavily owned by institutions many of which require dividend payments.
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    Why was GM paying dividends all these years?

    Most states have laws that protect car dealers.
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    Option Strategy Adjustments

    Sweet dreams putz master.
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    Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?

    She was probably using some of her 26 vacation or 13 paid sick days while this s--- was going on.
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    I couldnt have made this up if I tried

    Of her or the Fed? Don't you think she should have a better grasp of what's going on there?
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    I couldnt have made this up if I tried

    Incredible, was this on evening news, national media?
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    OMG! Who Knew?: Social Security and Medicare To Be Exhausted Far Earlier Than Thought

    Robert Gibb's, pres press sec, commented before Trustees' annual report was released.
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    dividend tax question.

    You hit on it - the famous "double taxation of dividends." Conservatives argue that this should be abolished.
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    Those "Financial Wizards" Will be subsidized by taxpayers

    The closest thing to eternal life in this world is a governrmnt agency.
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    Tax dilemma

    Depends on whether you have trader status. Cover yourself by making an estimated payment to IRS of 1/4 your gain * capital gains rate. 1040ES attached.
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    Those "Financial Wizards" Will be subsidized by taxpayers

    Call me paranoid but why am I beginning to believe it's the government and the financial hieracrchy in league with the government and various other special interests versus the hard working middle class which is rapidly becoming the lower class. Government employees receive...
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    Home Equity Lender wants Tax Returns

    My Home Equity lender (the successor to Wash Mutual which went down) has requested tax returns for past two years and income verification. Anybody else? Should I be worried?
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    Using a advisory service for high frequency trading?

    MarketSci, may be good, who knows, but you're not going to learn anything by handing it off to them.
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    Would 20% return annually be enough?

    I'm not a full time trader either - but I would compare my return to a benchmark. If you're selling Leaps vs a position its not taking up much of your time. But if you were trading actively, made 20% and the S&P was up 20% for the same period - you've wasted your time. You would have done...
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    Would 20% return annually be enough?

    COP is down to 43. If remains there your return will be 6%
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    Sqnm..........

    "Mishandled" the data. There's a lovely euphemism. What did they really do?
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    Dndn - Rip !

    What happened - why did it tank so much if news was positive?
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    Video:60 Minutes - Those Who Are 401(k) Screwed & Even Unemployed; Wall Street Racket

    .....The right tilted rich can afford to serve as food bank for the public, and they only have themselves to blame for having to You're not advocating cannibalism are you? Well who knows?
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    DNDN halted after close................

    what is Minyanville?
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