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right! i read that too. I'm sure the chances for the LEH 55 calls actually being "in the money" is next to 0%. but having said that if you thought for whatever reason LEH was going to go up yesterday and bought these calls, to me, it looks like these out of the money ones would have been much...

thanks guys for the intelligent responses! some things are more clear now. however im still confused as to why for SPECULATIVE purposes, more people dont buy out of the money options. assuming all due diligence is done. for example: a LEH 35 april call went up 85% today. thats awesome, but...

How does shorting a stock make it go down? (ie bear raid) is it simply bc other traders notice the rising short interest? What does the VIX index tell you and how do you use that information? How did bear stearns lose so much cash so quickly? I've been doing a lot of option research...

OK don't be too hard on me, I'm 20, a real estate developer and I have a lot to learn about this game, but heres what I think. I think yesterdays rally was pretty...fake. I do NOT think we are at a bottom. Sure the fed dropped rates, but that does that really solve the problem with these...