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Bull Call spreads for stocks I want to go up and Bear Put Spreads on stocks I want to go down - it's easier keeping things straight in my head. I tend to have too many positions - haha If I do a credit spread I will choose another symbol (assuming an ETF) - I don't do credit spreads on...

hajimow to compare yourself to the original poster isn't fair since you're obviously on different rate schedules. I have never used IB and wondering what type of volume you have to do to get your rates ? I must be missing something cause I don't see anything published on IBs site that...

So my Facebook-a-holic wife wanted to know if we're buying Facebook and she was all gung-ho until I explained to her what PE & PSR ratio's were ... PE 100:1 ? at the open ... at the close ? lol PSR 25:1 ? at the open ... at the close ? lol What can go wrong ... lol I hope it opens...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/att-idUSL1E8GHDV720120517?feedType=RSS&feedName=financialsSector&rpc=43 "Ralph de la Vega, the head of the AT&T's company's mobile business, also suggested he would push to reduce subsidies for the phones it does sell." Gee I wonder who he would...

You know what they say stocks go up in steps and they fall down the ladder ... The only puts that look good to me right now are TOL, LEN, DHI - I bought TOL Jan 13 puts just now. It's pretty hard for me to buy puts on stocks that are down even though I might think a stock is going lower...

Well TBT is in the crapper but at least I hedged with a TLT call spread ... I mentioned being long puts and ACAT & AAP have both tanked on earnings. (AZO/ORLY are both down alot in pre-market.) I've got to believe the USD is peaking but Europe could really tank if Greece exits which...

Who is left to buy AAPL now ? Do stocks go up when there are no new buyers ? At a certain point there are no more buyers when that happens a stock can range trades for 10 years despite putting up good numbers. What happens if/when TZ/T decide to cut phone subsidies in half and force the...

Law of large numbers - What drives a stock like Microsoft ? mutual fund & other big money fund managers. A committee sits around a table talking about how much MSFT they should own... Once all those mutual fund & other big money managers have bought MSFT then who else is left to buy MSFT...

Yes, I really have a 100 point spread - is that really any different from a 10$ spread (65-55) on a 70$ stock ? 450 doesn't even break support or go below the last 12 month lows. In (last 12 months) 2011 PCLN was 450-ish in late June, Late August, end of September, and in December. Is...

I would hardly say 680 is a pullback - 450 now that would be a pullback. I cashed out and put all my money into REITS which were paying 15% before dotcom bubble ... some stocks now remind me of 1999 with stocks trading at 10x revenues/book ... Sure PCLN has great margins now but how about...

No concerns about PCLN being worth more then all the US Airline stocks combined ? No concern about a company with a 35B dollar market cap and no moat ? And many other companies doing the same thing ? No concerns about PCLN doing 60% of their revenues in EU and Europe falling apart ?

I think it's too hard to predict anything on a week to week basis. (Meaning I've tried and failed.) Machines are in control IMO, and they can push individual stocks & some ETFs anywhere they want - I'm not a hedge fund with massive liquidity - it's my money not someone else's money ~...

I bet you could get filled at the midpoint on FAZ Jan 13 - give them another nickle if you have to - it's not a trade you need to worry about slippage so much with IMO. At end of trade losing another 5-10$ won't make big difference compared to reward of 20+ bagger. If wrong & market...

Should I stay or should I go now ... I have a Oct 650-550 put spread on... I watched PCLN run from 709>765 and when it dropped down I thought ok I'm good ... then it RAN again to 765 which does not leave a good feeling in the stomach. So are the machines finally going to let this fall or...

This is a great thread ! kudos to posters !

You could do a Jan 13 30-75 Bull Call Spread on FAZ for about the same 2.66 ~

I wasn't tipped off about TPX or FOSL and the puts I bought were not cheap (unfortunately), but I did make 150-200% on them. The FOSL was a Sept Put bought in middle of March. FOSL also had a pretty big double top. To find over-priced stocks I look at articles on stocks at 52-week highs...

If you're wondering about calendar spreads and inexperienced... take my advice and do plain (call or put) spreads instead. And stay away from credit spreads as they take alot more discipline and knowledge of the market. Calendar's are alot more difficult to time then plain call spreads and...

Imagine you owed someone 14TRILLION dollars ... Would you rather pay it back at 2% or 4% ? and you get to choose not the lender ~ Now I don't know how much that 14T the Fed has locked up at super low interest rates since Sept 2011 ... But I'd wager that we're going to see re-vamped...

I've been using OH's platform for about a week now and have no complaints about fills. (~30 option trades) I'm not thrilled about it being web-based - Chrome eats RAM and I can't use it on FF (not enough real estate on the browser). There are some quirky things that I'd change with the...