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No reason you can't...but you do have to specify that one is to open and one to close. Has nothing to do with the price. That is for open interest reporting.

close one position, open another...you can usually specify a single price if you want (debit or credit)

Yes, but they are really disgusting when they open up.....look like boogers from outer space!

keyboards? i have seen monitors thrown, lunches thrown, walls punched through many times; the worst? a fistfight between a trader and the owner of the firm.....and no, he was not fired! actually, he was one of the nicest guys i knew. just a little crazy. this same guy was in my opinion great...

Yes, there really is!!! If you want to find out who it is, just find a gal named Dorothy that travels with a lion, a tinman and a scarecrow. They will lead you to this nefarious dude and his big up/down switch:cool: ps:could be a long trip....bring a portable cd player.....Pink Floyd seems...

This is why I keep such tight stops when I buy a dip now. ALSO, this is why I am trading on average less than 5% of what I did when we had an up-trending market. The short squeezes get so painful. Intraday, I almost never had longs go up as fast as shorts go against me. Also, catching bottoms...

I agree, but still, there are (or had been) up days and there still are strong stocks (intraday). This is more what I mean. Gotta remember, we are talking about daytrading. At least I am.

I would pay triple those commisions to trade a stock with a 600 dollar spread:)

4 small positions.....shorted some qqq's on the close just so I can sleep ... but yeah, net long hoping for at least a "dead cat bounce" if not a real bit of bargain hunting Mon am (which is my hope and my belief). I think the selling was overdone, then exacerbated by options expiration

nope...just watched over the authors shoulders and kibitzed while he wrote it

\ Nah...didn't have to .... was on the curb in the 17th century:p

Oh, so now you are posting naked pics of my wife AND her sister? C'mon Chas.....you are embarassing me!

Oh, I didn't know that!:confused:

just added JNJ too....that's it for me today!!!

And just WHO are these boys that control the up and down switch? I thought they were us? Guess I am wrong again?!?!

If the "trend is your friend" is generally accepted wisdom, then how do we also accept the generally aknowledged wisdom that most of the people are wrong most of the time? I for one will ALWAYS buy a drastic down move, and short a drastic up move (be it in the market or a specific issue). Now...

Excellent point!

guess i was wrong....did everyone get tgif mellow?

PS...at that time, no internet. no discount brokers. AND no real money. Traded options in my brokers office. Had beginners luck (Mesa Petroleum, T. Boone Pickens' company). Made 12k on my first trade with a $900 investment. Lost it all back plus plenty more. But I was on the hook. Still am...

HEY!!!! How did you get that picture of my wife???? Have I lost my anonymity?