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Vertical spreads are directional and if they go the wrong way are there any repair strategies that people would like to share. An example would be XYZ trading at 35, put on a vertical bear call spread, selling the 35 and buying the 40 with 3 weeks to expiration. With 10 days to expiration...

I had a listing of brokers who use the Elite platform and can't find it and prefer it to others I've used. Tradecast said a decision about the software hasn't been made yet. They are closing Tradecast, copy of e-mail: Dear Client: Ameritrade Holding Corporation announced in October that...

Ameritrade is closing down Tradecast, what other brokers use the Elite software?

Yes, if you intend to ever trade an option.

Rock n Roll would definitely be different if Buddy Holly never existed.

LOL....busted. Had the exact same reaction.

clever and funny, surely you have more.

extra risk, more potential reward, start with a married put and turn it into a conversion.

Threads turn out to be pissing matches about egos and attention and I won't go there while respecting your questions. If you read him on RM from the beginning you would see he knows how to structure large size while hedging the positions, but not on the current site. He was or is a hedge fund...

Todd must be reading the mail, he posted this last week: "We’re going to have a slew of classes at the University of Minyanville including Derivatives, Technical Analysis, Fixed Income and Fundamental Analysis—all free." If he posts something of interest before the trail period ends I'll...

Todd's writing has a watered down flavor that he didn't have when he wrote on RM. Not sure if the lawyers got to him but the text is missing specifics and examples that made it so good, like structuring a trade, especially the gamma scalping. I also agree that the cartoon style is tiring but...

Sounds like sabre rattling, and I think if they did dump shares the market is large and diverse enough to handle it. Would anyone dump large blocks of shares and depress the price they were getting? Taking the money out of the US to go to Japan, So. America doesn't sound quite right. I...

The clearing houses/brokers are holding the stock in their inventory, so there is stock. It is the value of the put not the stock itself that is important. For instance, if ABC teachers retirement fund were holding 10,000 shares of XYZ stock(the same stock that crashed)your puts would be...

I certainly can't speak for the OCC and give you a definitive answer, however the worst the situation for the company stock the better for your puts. The fact that the stock price wasn't within.75cents is what you are asking I believe and that would probably affect auto-exercise, but you do own...

If you are the holder of a put that is .75 cents or more in the money, and the stock no longer trades, the Options Clearing Corp. will use the last sale price to determine auto-exercise threshholds.

The joke about Pristine at the time it was popular: "It's better to have lipstick on your collar than Pristine on your breath" As told by Imus in the Morning

http://daytradingstocks.com/stockscreeners.html has a list of stock screening sites.

Before starting to trade I read all sorts of trading books and I believe that hurt me more than helped. If I were to start over I would have a basic understanding of the markets, know how to operate the software, and begin trading. There is no substitute for experience. I can't comment on...

GG, if you have trades to show that caused you to start the "Hell" thread, just show them, if you don't have real trades than show the ones that were paper trades. I think there are people who honestly want to help you and they can only do it by analyzing the trades. Boil down the thread...