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if i remember correctly, AAPL had 3+ dollar spreads during that.

to reiterate - yes, they're borrowable, but the availability of them varies widely from firm to firm. generally, the ones with very heavy activity are shortable (although sometimes they wind up being unavailable when 'everyone' wants them).

i posted this a couple years ago. it's still relevant now: "bear is now one of these companies that's selling well below book...normally with a brokerage i want to buy in the money calls...i'm a little gunshy at this point, but i know that i would buy a small position in bear options because...

thank you! will check it out shortly to see how the newer model is...

i bought a couple of the dell t3400s on the suggestion of people around here, and they've been great for trading. but i'm looking into possibly getting a newer dell. i'm guessing i'll have to deal with windows 7 instead of xp. but does anyone have recommendations for a comparable unit to...

skimmed this thread. glad you've decided to stick with your day job as long as you can. i left my day job (as a techie and other stuff) in the finance world 12 years ago and started trading on my own. i didn't have enough money, but had to try it then because my day job had changed after a...

he's back and winning... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/06/06/2011-06-06_lenny_dykstra_former_mets_slugger_facing_charges_over_drug_possession_faking_car.html

unfortunate, one of the good cnbc anchors. didn't take junk from anyone. killed people of either political party / belief / ceos if they came on to be interviewed, and refused to answer questions with standard runarounds. there aren't many people who, if they left cnbc, would leave a...

the starred out letters are *****

quick summary: -> he trades pink sheet stocks. you know, the market where quotes aren't guaranteed to be filled, shorts are insanely difficult without the right brokerages. so in some regards, for others, it's similar to paper trading because they can't get the same fills even if they...

IPOs generally aren't shortable within the first month of trading. note: GENERALLY.

i read through this, the OP is asking the right questions, but has way too high expenses to even think about giving up a good paying dayjob. if you can trade, the hardest parts on your own are discipline, and psychological for not forcing, reacting well when you have bad days, knowing when...

here's how to fade cramer: occasionally, he'll have a stock or group of stocks. he won't have been enthusiastic about them for a long time, and they'll have run a LOT. finally, he comes to like them (may even create a list or nickname for a couple stocks and say why this time is different...

upside: i've had his ID blocked for a long time. now i don't have to read that drivel. downside: person gets banned, and after getting banned, repeatedly violates the TOS and causes tons of aggravation. usually, that would get a person into more 'trouble'. in this case, repeatedly...

babe ruthy

people come on about pristine or velez and say "can it really be this bad?", a bunch of people say "yes!" and then they say "oh, i'll go ahead anyhow". why, i have no idea. i've never taken the courses. however, i've seen many of the videos and have spoken with people who have taken the...

basquiat.

as others have said, wrong question. should be: 1) do you have either good risk/reward or high winning % with good money management? 2) are your trades good? those are better things for amateurs to aim for.