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you hit the nail on the head. don't let them make it out to be any more complicated than a normal purchase of say...a house. for some reason people equate stock quotes to some exotic thing. If you are looking for a house and the guy's asking 100k, you don't HAVE to pay 100k. You can offer...

Scott, Not sure the question you're asking. Are you asking for the prices the individual options have to rise to in order for your contingent stop order of $1.50 debit to be placed? (I'm assuming stop since you'd be losing money) The Ask on the Nov 70's and the Bid on the Nov 75's??

rolling 4 quarter's eps total $4.51/share. $30 stock price would give p/e of 6.65???????

LOL...that is so true. if it's a slow day they seem to spread the quotes out just to the stop prices and take everyone out....then bring the quotes right back up. it's not like they don't see the stops right there on their order book. i think there's supposed to be a rule about posting quotes...

you guys need to learn how the markets work before you go saying a firm can go f*ck themselves. (not saying that you don't get f*cked legally by NITE) it's not NITE's rules...it's the exchange where the stock is listed. AMEX and NYSE listed stock stops are triggered off of the last trade and...

and it's impossible to fight a bad bid/ask spread. here's one this morning on a Naz stock LIHRY: sell stop at 23.87, triggered off a bid of 23.83 with an ask of 24.67 (almost a dollar wide at the open) , which was RIGHT AFTER the stock opened at 24.25. the worst part was the execution wasn't...

Yeah, you definitely got a bad fill. Here's the Time and Sales from 10/19 at 9:37:27 when your order filled. There was 4000 shares offered @ 8.80:

Casper, it DOES sound like you got a bad fill. The market's not gonna move that much on NITE before and after your order. It probably got routed to CHX..they are horrible at market orders. Call your broker and ask them for the exact second your order was sent to the market center and ask for...

Nah...it wouldn't matter if the guy who sold you the options went bankrupt. The clearing firm's on the hook for that guy and still has to settle with the OCC if they want to remain a member. If you're asking what if the the clearing firm themselves went bankrupt (a la REFCO) then you're dealing...

You definitely have someone to assign puts to when you buy them...the party that sold them to you. That's exactly what you want to happen if you bought puts. Why on earth would anyone buy puts if they became worthless once the company hit the absolute bottom price....$0? If the stock happened...

( DJ ) 10/14 02:47PM =DJ Refco, What It Does And Why It's In Trouble: An Explainer By Michael Rapoport Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The scandal at Refco Inc. (RFX) has dominated the news this week, but it's still confusing to many market-watchers. In part...

Wow Apex Capital. I thought I had an arrogant side to me but this makes me look like an angel. This is from DowJonesNewswires. I'm sure you'll consider them pathetic morons too though: ( DJ ) 10/14 02:47PM =DJ Refco, What It Does And Why It's In Trouble: An Explainer By Michael...

you have to give the money back if you sold the options short and you get your money back if you bought the options. we act like the contract was never written that way there's no dispute on what the closing price is. nah.... seriously, it depends on what the occ says the closing price is if...

I just started looking into this as well. I like to look at industry associations and alliances. They usually have a good list of private and public companies. I'm also in on ALVR because they provide the broadband wireless access systems. It seems like most places looking into wireless are...

Yes, you would think the person selling below your bid would be unhappy that they got less than what you were offering to pay. You can ask Ameritrade to contact your MM (most likely Knight) and ask for order to be reflected. Generally, you need 5K to get reflected around $1.00. More size for...

That's a good point. Are brokers supposed to take responsibility for exchange errors? It seems to me like we always placate you retail investors without question...and the problem just gets worse as you keep asking us to take responsibility for exchange problems.

Agreed. E-trade/BrownCo merger: BrownCo had 20% naked margin requirement , E-trade requires 30%. That's a lot of capital being tied up that could be used elsewhere. Hope they will look into lowering their margin requirements.

JPMorgan Chase to sell BrownCo to E*TRADE FINANCIAL New York, September 29, 2005 – JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to sell BrownCo, its online deep discount brokerage business, to E*TRADE FINANCIAL for a cash purchase price of $1.6 billion...

the order makes sense to me but who is the broker that's offering it? thx!

That IS interesting that those ETFs are on the threshold list. But firms can def short the security if they have it to loan...which looks to be the problem with tradestation currently. Normally, we just have a list of "easy to borrow" securities and short based on this. You can't use this list...