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Depends on your thought of direction IMO ~ Are you experienced enough to know what to do if the underlying goes straight up for 30-120 days ? Be sure to realize that put prices are currently elevated and if the market turns up IV will come down and put you in a bad place on your longer...

Just check the aggressive growth box and leave the others blank. Rodney King is just trolling ......... some OLB's require as little as 2k to have a margin account. Oh and you do have a margin account, right ?

I wouldn't expect QE until after the elections ... the Euro's house is burning ... it's their turn for LTRO (or something else.) Euro rebound should be good for TBT ~

Click on at "New Messages" Goto TRASH folder Look for messages titled "verify your account information" You should see this link "review your profile": https://wwws.ameritrade.com/cgi-bin/apps/u/AccountSuitabilityPDF Click the link - print the bottom page - fill it out. Fax or...

Zero chance that QE/LTRO will happen before Greek elections. And it will be LTRO or something else from the Euro's first as their house is burning down ~ I can't see QE until after the elections unless there is an epic disaster.

I remember people thinking like this in 2000 and 2008 - The US market is way overpriced if you compare to world markets. EWP is below the 2009 lows and the QQQ is still 100% higher then the 2009 lows. What people aren't realizing is that the US market is being propped up by outside...

Friday was worst day of 2012 iirc - that can't bode well for the short term. Gold/silver has put in a bottom IMO and I think we'll see nice runs in miners as the market definitely expecting more QE/LTRO sooner rather then later. I can't see anything newsworthy happening until after the...

On a side note: Looking out at future months open put interest looks like they're losing their butts right now. (Very little open interest is OTM ~ and there is quite a bit DITM.)

Hey m22au - I've been reading your older posts and some of your calls have been very prescient. Thoughts on airline stocks given their recent run up ? Anything else strike you as shortable to zero ?

Look at the chart of EWP - I think that's all you need to know. "Fear money" is flying out of Europe and into Treasuries and the Yen (FXY). I don't know how much longer the Swiss (FXF) can hold out staying pegged to the Euro. I bought some OTM calls on FXF - if the Swiss rebalance it...

A 2 currency Euro would be the sensible solution but I don't know how you get 17 countries to agree to it ... How do you create a split for the debts that are outstanding ? How do you get 17 countries to agree on anything ? What about all the trading instruments ? are they in the new...

1200 posts and you don't know to look at the company website ? Google is your friend :-) http://www.zoll.com/news-releases/2012/03/12/asahi-kasei-announces-agreement-to-acquire-zoll/ You should have got 93$ per share although it might take awhile to receive the money - call your broker IMO.

If you think oil will skyrocket ... Buy an oil well in Texas or buy XLE.

I look at MHO and see a stock that has tried to break 18-19$ 5 times since Mar 2009. Many housing stocks are 70 RSI right now ~ On an anecdotal basis - I went to see a lawyer who had moved and his entire building of like 12 suites were totally empty. This was in a decent neighborhood in...

Hey FB just spent 1B on a company with no revenues ~ What's a company with revenues worth ? lol That being said instagram of which I do not know anything sounds like it'd be a perfect fit for a smart-phone. I wouldn't be surprised if FB shorted the hell out of ZNGA and then put in a...

AAPL is a great company with great products and AAPL is "cheap" on valuations ! But at 525B$ market cap (562$ stock) who is left to buy more AAPL stock ? Are there fund managers or hedge funds that have not heard of AAPL ? Do you think fund managers/hedge funds/other BIG money managers...

You have to actually spend the money for a CC. Because of the way margin reqs are held individual investors tend to think they have more money then they have, and they sell more puts then they should have ~ In case you guys forgot the OP is clearly a new investor and not a sophisticated...

Don I said talk to the reps at the Money Show from the major OLB's - some might be hired hands and have no experience with customers, but some are real reps. If you call say Ameritrade and ask a rep they won't be forthcoming with any type of answer about how people blow out accounts. I was...

Don for an experienced investor I would agree but for anyone new to options I would say that covered calls are much better. The problem is that new investors are not savvy enough to follow how much margin they are using up and when the stock or market moves against them they tend to blow out...

A bank run in Europe would be terrible for Iran (& OPEC) in general, and it won't happen cause the Euros are going to step in and print money sooner or later it has to happen. Iran is hanging by a thread with hyperinflation running amok. You may not be aware of this but there is an Iran...