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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...

GM is heavily owned by institutions many of which require dividend payments.

Most states have laws that protect car dealers.

Sweet dreams putz master.

She was probably using some of her 26 vacation or 13 paid sick days while this s--- was going on.

Of her or the Fed? Don't you think she should have a better grasp of what's going on there?

Incredible, was this on evening news, national media?

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

You hit on it - the famous "double taxation of dividends." Conservatives argue that this should be abolished.

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

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.

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...

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?

MarketSci, may be good, who knows, but you're not going to learn anything by handing it off to them.

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...

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

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

What happened - why did it tank so much if news was positive?

.....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?

what is Minyanville?