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yup.. GE profit.. i tihnk its a matter of taking couple of Zeros from their CDS portfolio and putting them in the profit side. voila . the books are BALANCED... but not for long.. keep carrying those wonderful CDS at par. while they sell for 20 cents on the dollar in the real world...

exactly.. there are so many OVERBLOATED sectors.. they are priced as if. we are at DOW 12K and plus.. just look around retail coffee REITs. my favorite.. some tech.. even AMAZON. still has P/E of 40 plus... unjustified. the beauty of the market is it PRICES the present . and...

ha ha.. its worth 5Billion only in their eyes.. i wish they list in an IPO , I want to see how they come up with their 70% year over year revenue growth.. no damn way.. this thing will fall flat... as long as facebook is free , u will have 230 million users.. try pushing in paid...

http://cdrates.bankaholic.com/?product=16&sort=3 the 2 year and 3 yr CD rates are pathetic. hence I would rather take the 2% which the top online savings bank is giving.. ============ do you know any of your close reliable still employed ( and hopefully will remain employed) friends...

since this is an economics forum.. the reason I am posting here is... amongst all retail investors. we are worried that we need to make some annual APY on our savings to beat inflation little do we know that there maynot be inflation. rather deflation. ha ha now coming to the point.. we...

funny thing... yesterday IB sent me the usual buy in RISK notice on my 3 week position of 200 short shares...... i knew that was a signal. that this darn thing is going to collapse.. we retail investors are well known to be the weak hands.. from a -400$ loss. position.-all these days...

SHARES AVAILABLE ON ib TODAY.. HMM... AND ITS FALLING.. contradictory.. when the darn thing was rising. no shares.. when falling. available....

dustin.. can u tell me the brokerage name.. I use optionshouse and Interactive brokers.. .. thanks..

Here is my take on it.. ever since it broke the 18 range , there have been ZERO shares available for shorting. I , like many hold a few shares short and I wanted to add more. Now since it is zooming up.. huh. and there are no shares available, I am confused ? Shouldnt it is be easier...

ping/email me if interested. Would like to see how many would like to meet probably in a starbucks on a Sat morning or anytime- in a location conveinent to all. the folks I would like to hook up with: Full time/significant time traders doing front month options and long short stocks...

ha ha. mike.. on the dot.. not only do I/we prefer to be the insurance company, we only sell policies to folks who we know with high probability are not going to crash on us.... and even if they do , we roll the payout to next month to see if they re crash on us....

I second that. The BEST post so far. I think I need to print this out and frame it. One thing: going back to the OP. He/she says that a bomb comes his way. and he/she gets ruined. Now it so happens that some of the times. the irrational trade will make him/her money. and that is the MONEY...

thought I would check with the regulars seems like June was a sellers dream. ha ha . after we have weathered APR-MAY. i got good premiums , however in the first three weeks and scalped smaller ones in the last 2 . sold 80% calls and 10% puts..hence I have to admit i am a bear, but...

yes.. i dont know why ameritrade did acquire it.... only thing they will do is cannibilize it.. how do u handle the commission differential... TOS is for pros. mostly options /futures traders... ameritrade is ... for ?? gullible. retail part timers.. ha ha.

well zecco. charges 4.50 plus 50 cent tradeking 5 plus 50 cents thinkorswim 2.95 per contract. but i dont know the age. limit. needed

I have seen this too many times.. I was trying to sell INT- world fuel services.. it is 47$.. i was trying to sell the june 50 call bid .60 ask .85 now I use IB.. and most know that in Interactive Brokers , if you change your order you are charged a fee since I want to beat...

sorry.. my bad... i did not trade it.. just looked at the yhoo chart . yes. it was in the 150 range.. Jan-08 151.32 152.26 ...

spindr0 = u mean EEM was 50.. right. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EEM#symbol=EEM;range=1d it was never 150 range. and to the OP. yes.. the nice premiums u can make are due to the fact that it was in the 20s some time back and could re visit it . who knows.. as mark says...

I have a simple question? Do any fellow traders make it a point to time trades. so that the millions of 401K contributions which mostly go into mutual funds which in turn are all LONG( i dont think there is a 401K which allows you to go short ? is there?) hence does anyone monitor and for...

btw. is anyone contemplating shorting GM and buying the 3$ strike call as a hedge. someone told me that the shares are restricted and hard to short/borrow.