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It's on the NYSEA exchange- who uses this?

HPI or PFF thoughts?

how much would you be paying in commissions for this position? Also, you have to ask yourself if you wwant to tie up your money for that long... there's a lot of opportunity risk here, and I prefer to trade in more short-term options, .5 - 3 months.

With mark-to-market accounting, the value of a put will increase in a down quarter, and therefore give the appearance of more earnings. It is a way of making your company look good in a down market. However it's basically just a poor long term investment with short-term goals in mind.

I know when you short securities, the securities are borrowed at random from holders... but is there any way I can short TheGoonior's brokerage account?

failed_trad3r, Warren didn't write the puts, Berkshire Hathaway did. It's easy to confuse since Warren owns about 30% of Berkshire, but the options are owned by his company. His company will be held liable for the options upon their maturities. Wolfgang1756, The puts are European...

he's probably making 2% every week now.

I like the idea of buying and holding for a while, but it's certainly a risk. the big question-mark for me is the iPhone. A lot of RIMM's money comes from corporate use of blackberrys... the question is will that market share increase, or will companies start using the iPhone for their...

yeah, that's included in the "if someone let me" part of my last post. Buffett's contracts are European, meaning there is no early exercize allowed. Also, he is not required to hold any money in escrow for this- no collateral, no nothing. It's amazing what you can do when you're worth...

yeah, you are in line to receive the maximum profit you could have when you entered the position. You can't have your cake and eat it too in this situation. The position you entered gave you a maximum return no matter if the stock is at 600 or above. You win! In the future, I'd say...

I would sell thse all day on the american indices if someone let me. The only way these options will have any value is if the stock market goes down an annualized 3%* every year over the next 20 years. (* approx. Inflation adjusted).

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1116/technology-mobile-4G-telephony-metropcs.html Here's the link to the article. It's a very good read, thanks for letting me know about it. When I read statistics and graphs, you always have to think a little deeper. The cost of calls has gone down...

You don't hear a lot of third-party people tooting about the success they've had when paying for other people's investment lessons. It's usually the people selling the service, and that's it. I'd say invest $20 a year and sign up for Kiplinger's and SmartMoney on amazon.com, do your own...

VZ revenues 2008 - 97,354.00 2007 - 93,469.00 2006 - 88,182.00 2005 - 69,518.00 I pulled these off of google finance. VZ made about 98Bil in revenues last year, which comes down to about $300/year for every american man woman and child. VZ and Aapl are showing us that there is A LOT of...

I made my initial investment around April. I've actually done really well with the buy-writing on this one... it's in my Roth IRA and my 'cost-basis' with options income included is about $25.50 per share, and I hope to hold it for years. I don't have a call written against it, and I've been...

I like VZ. It's a huge company with ironclad cash flow, strong earnings that are growing, market share increasing, and a decent enough balance sheet. Factoring in the numbers, I think it's worth $35 a share, but it keeps hovering in this 28-32 range. Any thoughts on why? Anypone bearish on it?

This thread needs to end now. Go ahead and buy Sprint, AMD, and BAC. When you buy them, they will begin going up, and then you can sell them. You will be soooo rich. I'm glad that when you have this whim of which stocks to trade for such a certain profit, that it's your money you are...

Good replies. Let me add that instead of BAC, you may want to be more diversified and try the financial etf: XLF. I got burned last year on C when I swore that $7 was the bottom. However the deep covered calls I wrote did help, I wasn't glad that I made the investments. Think hard about the...

You'd be sacrificing liquidity, increasing leverage, for a relatively small gain. I don't like IC's in general, just because I prefer not to be on both sides of the market- I'd rather just do an ITM covered call in this situation.

22% i think... a controlling chunk for sure. What are our thoughts on the 50-1 B share split? Will Berkshire become a high-volume stock? There will certainly be a higher demand for options on the company...