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FAS is very tempting, but as folks have pointed out here, you have to understand the product and what it is trying to accomplish. Now having said that and playing around with some math, there is a huge difference in terms of compounding/erosion that takes place with a leveraged fund trading...

I have been flirting with selling some of those Jan 2011 $2.50 strike puts that are at a huge premium right now.

Interesting. Well let me amplify a bit more on the mechanics of how this played out. Imagine you are watching a quote box in real time on the DOT system trading DIA. The bid is $85.50, the ask is $85.51. There is literally a wall of twelve different entities "bidding" and "asking" on both...

I have been away from the trading game for quite sometime. A long time ago, when commission rates were not so favorable for average prop traders like they are today; meaning "cheap" and the brand spanking new DOT system was all the fuss at the NYSE......................... On the DIA and...

I am sorry for the repost guys. I don't know how I missed the other thread. My browser crashed.

This is probably more for the folks "working" in the industry more so than the independent & prop traders. Given the current state of financial devastation and how this has all played out in the last 12 months along with the brand new "FINRA" reorg, I was hoping to get some new input that is...

This question really pertains more to those of us who work in the operations, logistics, etc. of the industry as opposed to the independent or prop folks. Given the devastation that has occured over the last 12 months and now the re-org and emergence of FINRA so to speak I was hoping to get some...