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Friends, please help me on two questions as I am really confused. 1. If I make I trade today to buy a stock, do I officially own the stock at the end of today (record day), or 3 business days later (settlement day)? 2. If I short sell a stock, is that the same? Thanks.

Does anyone here know how often IB updates the stocks for corporate actions? The WB and WFC merger was completed yesterday. IB still does not show the change of symbol, but Ameritrade has already showed new symbol (WB->WFC).

I some questions regarding short sale. Hope your gurus can help. 1. If I short sale a stock, does the ownership of the stock transfer from the lender to the buyer of the stock? 2. If a stock involves a tender and one shareholder tendered his shares. Is his shares still available for...

Hi, I have never placed order using DDE before. So, after writing this formula, I need to paste it into a cell. Then the order will go out? Thanks.

Your example is too complicated. Please give me an example for buying 200 shares of MSFT. Thanks.

I have already created a sheet which can display bid, ask, last, etc. Say, my user id is edemo, and I want to buy 200 shares of MSFT stock at SMART exchange. I set the id for the ticker at 10. It seems to be =edemo|ord!10?place?field2 What exact will the field2 be? Thanks for your...

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i mean the 16:30 EST third Friday in the expiration week. How long is "a bit longer"? And Saturday is impossible? Thanks.

my broker says friday. But what is the latest time for CBOE to accept the exercise? If it is sometime on Saturday, then any important news happening after Friday's market close will put our retail clients in disadvantage.

what is the exact cut-off time for option exercise? Is there an offical time or made by the broker?

Mark, I have a general question. How about if the takeover is thru stock? Let us say WB taken by WFC. If I have 2009 April WB calls, and the takeover is completed by the end of this year, what will my calls be treated? Thanks.

Lehman and many others said that they had billions of dollars of liquidity. How suddenly after a few days they filed bankruptcy?

That new rule removes the exception of naked short sale for option market makers. What is the effect on options price and stock price?

Let me add something to my question. For out-the-money credit spread or in-the-money debit spread, is that also a time decay play instead of probability play? Is the iron condor a time decay play, too? Thanks.

I have heard that the calendar spread is playing time decay, while credit spread is playing probability. For me, it is quite confusing, because credit spread, or debit spread is play time decay, too. Can someone give a clarification? Thanks.

Although their stocks are under water, I believe their bonds are safe. how can a retail investor to buy these bonds? Through which broker? Thanks.

Why SPY and S&P 500 index differ so much today? SPY is up 1.34 (1.04%) to 130.71, but S&P 500 index is up only 9 (0.69%) to 1305.31. Thanks.

I like this post a lot. You may put the cost of the spread in the Excel if you do not mind.

Based on your July 15 trades, you still like those oil companies. You are not afraid of oil topping already?

But yahoo finance does not have those big name research reports.