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(These questions apply to stocks, options, fx, and futures, which is why I'm posting them here.) For several months I've done well on assorted option spreads and recently began trading index and currency futures with some nice returns from the dollar-yen both on-paper and for real. It's all...

Another thing --- CNBC kept saying "exclusive" in regarding Mozillo's interview with Maria this morning. In the first 3 minutes of Power Lunch they used the word like 6 times to describe the interview.....was so blatantly-pandering (to me) that I turned the TV off and ate lunch in silence for a...

I agree that CNBC is falling apart bigtime in preparation for Fox. And I am REALLY sad that Bolling jumped --- he was, IMO, one of the better "Fast Money Traders" and I did get some good insights from him this past year. "Fast Money" has gotten such that everyone is talking over everyone...

Out of curiosity, I just popped up CNBC online's free streaming coverage of CNBC Asia tonight (Sunday night here in DC) --- I can't begin to tell you how refreshing it is to *not* hear the annoying chirps, beeps, whooshes, and other World-of-Warcraft-like sound effects that plague CNBC USA...

Yep, that's the one. And you're right about most people, too. Aside from Ditech, others that are run with varying degrees of annoyance bordering on my desire to spork my eyes and ears out include the damn Scottrade mini-spots with the helicopter, and the kid singing horribly-off-key for the...

I should add that I've started renaming CNBC as the network of "All Ditech Ads All The Time" I counted this morning --- 8 Ditech ads ran in one hour. All equally-annoying. But when the parent company owns the network and the sponsor, I guess GE does what it wants. *sighs*

Bloomberg's online stream doesnt like my Mac. :(

Yesterday they were all over the Dow-14K story with the effing orange bar on the top of the screen showing how far above/below the Dow/SP was from its "all-time record." They've done this for the past few days as we've moved "higher and higher" to that "all-time record." Funny how today...

Earnings can go either way......even on companies you THINK you are pretty bullish/bearish on. If you were daring, you could do very DOTM spreads for a smaller profit but a higher probability of the spread expiring worthless next Friday. (That's worked for me in the past) You could do a...

welcome back! missed seeing your stuff here!

Oh, sorry -- yes, a paper trade. Problem is that the paper-trade system here aggregates gains/loss by position, and rather than split the position into two and try a put-sell versus a bear call...which would complicate its P/L reporting, I wanted to test out a single strategy to keep reporting...

Okay, first time I'm looking at repairing a position, or at least getting ready to repair one. If you are long a call, but the position's turned (or is turning) against you for one reason or other, what might be a decent way to minimize the loss on the call premium? IE, You're long 10...

Good insights, all --- mucho thanks! I slowly came around to that conclusion...that it might not be a wise idea... after doing a bit more homework and experimentation. Normally I stick with basic BCS or BPS for simple directional plays, but was dabbling with some of the more 'exotic'...

I guess I'm just trying to corroborate with wht my P&L chart shows. Held thru expiration, if the underlying stays at 120, you win maximum profit on the spread. If the underlying moves to (say) 118 or 122 at expiration, you win less -- but still end up in the green inside your BEPs. And if...

Yep, I meant Wednesday. Been a long weekend. :( As long as the decay isn't that much, and the underlying stays somewhat-constant, I'm thinking this is a decent opportunity t get in and out of before earnings.

(Disclaimer: I'm not looking for 'investment advice' but insights on an 'investing technique' instead.) So here we are at expiration week for May. The share price of one of the companies I track (DE) closed right at $120 on Friday. Given the $120 close, the P&L graph for a potential...

Yah, I paper-traded that on Thurs and was surprised by the wide B/A spread. Ah, well. That's what paper-trading is for!

Yeah, good point -- the b/a spread can kill you....I've watched the b/a on the weeklies and some of them are absolutely NUTS.

Pardon this stupid question, but I've never dabbled with weekly options before. For goofs and grins I just ran a Butterfly Spread on the XEO -- in particular this week's XEO weeklys that expire today: XEO currently at $688 and I ran a 685/690/695 Put Butterfly. Buy 10 XEO MAY 2007 685...

Sometimes it's good to be a Skeptical Speculator (tm), eh? I'm happy wiht my March reward with DNDN, so I've been happy to sit this one out, even if I did get tempted to get back into it. Though I may take up a long position once the prices stabilize a bit after this latest news. *shrugs*...