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Yes, I do. In fact, still short XSP 124 put in a bull vert (yeah, kind of mixed up, SPY/XSP). But I tend to think that becaused SPY options are llisted in multiple exchanges, it is probably more liquid. But I think I shorted XSP put instead of SPY because I could get a nickle more at the time.

That's what I noticed yesterday, 131.50, and was patting myself on the back for having closed it end of last week. Who woulda thought... Thanks again Cache for SPY div info.

Thanks Cache. Where can I find out when SPY goes ex-div? I guess if I had still been short SPY Mar 131 call yesterday, it could have been exercised. If not, would have been OK today?

This has got to be the longest thread on ET, which speaks of its quality. I closed out the short leg 131 of SPY call bear spread for a nickle a few days ago (and thus, luckily dodged the run-up), or I would have been sitting on a hot pan. But I noticed that today (as of now) SPX is up...

Personally, I think the number of $25k is arbitrary, but since it is there, treat it as the net on the tennis court and adjust how you play the game.

That's what I did with one newsletter (not buysellhold), month after month to get conditional credit. In the meantime I forwarded the my e-mail requesting cancellation to the credit card issuer. The vendor was supposed to respond within 6 months or something. After that, case was closed in...

Simply call your credit card to put the charges in dispute.

In an IRA acct w/ IB, you can not do any spreads, except covered calls (and its synthetic opposite, naked puts, fully backed up by cash available). I have not asked, but my guess is, this is to avoid any inadvertent naked short positioin caused by early assignment and exercise. You may want to...

Is it true that DSL is dedicated line, thus not affected by what your neighbors are doing, whereas cable connection is shared? Thanks in advance.

Sorry, Enginer, I didn't check the site often enough and didn't subscribe to the thread. I put the order on hold, because a Verizon tech came, surveyed the house and told me that he need to extend a fiber line to the house, get a power source for a backup box and put up another box some...

That's what I thought, but the book title is kind of misleading ("A Woman's Adventures...") in that there is little of her personal experience--I mean, putting on a lot in Globex and seeing it tick up and down can hardly be called adventure, but an abundance of other women's travails in the pit...

Written by a clerk/journallist, presumably non-fiction, it is nevertheless very interesting read. Vivid despcriptions of life in the pits, colorful anecdotes, keen observation and pockets of insightful analysis on trading psychology. Interesing maybe because of the fact that the author found...

Interesting. I didn't know that. To whom do MM pay commission? The exchange? TIA

Maybe enough trades, from legging and adding, ect, but my lot size is usu. small. There is a quirk in TOS's rebate program in that it rewards the number of trades, not the number of contracts (therefore higher cumulative commission per month). I am not complaining though.

Thanks to both, Donna and Ambush, for the info. BTW, I did get their rebates for broadband internet for a couple of months. So I guess I may qualify as well.

I heard that you can talk to TOS for lower commissions if you do enough business. I not there yet. So is there a volume or balance requirement to get that? TIA

Actually it is $2.95 or $1.50 plus $9.95, depending on how many contracts, and the lower of the two. Granted, not the lowest. But there are times that you will need to have their T-desk's help with some fills. Once I wanted to get out a diag with the long DITM. I called the desk and the...

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I was asking tonge-in-cheek. Since you said "do a search" I became curious. Here is what I found by googling "[name], track record": http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/misc.invest.futures/msg01323.html BTW, I heard him talk one year at a Trader's Expo and walked out less than half way into...

Where do you find his track record?