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If you wanted volatility why not trade oil, euro, or the long bond even....quite a bit of volatility there over the last 6 months. No reason to hang around where your system(s) don't play well.

Thanks for the Brent Crude info. I was totally unaware that IB had that contract -- not that that says much. :) Do many people spread the Brent contract against the QM (WTI I think)?

I think the real turning point may be where the yield curve begins to invert...

I get this one intermittently with ET -- not other sites though. I always run the latest version of Firefox. It clears by itself after a day or so and in the interim I use IE if I have to. No one has really given me a satisfactory answer for the problem yet but heh...wth

That is a incredibly ugly story... Just to be sure, I'd check to make sure it was the clearing house that exercised your options. There was another story posted here about IB claiming NASDAQ busted a trade when in fact it was IB that --wrongly -- did so. Unfortunately, IB states the...

You've got oil cracking along as well -- inflationary... It also may be that people are still unwinding the long side idea that the Fed is "almost" done...

What were the delta's like? Seems like a "small" return dollarwise for a lot of potential risk if the Euro blows chunks one way or another... But I guess that's what writing strangles is all about..

Stop looks to be set at Chap 11. Lot of shorts feeling pain today I'm sure... If it weren't for expiry, you'd think equities would be a lot lower...

probably need to attach a contract month to that...:)

What was the weighted average margin capital required over the period? Seems like it was in excess of $90K but probably less than $150K. This would indicate something like a 10% return -- using an average...Is that close?

They're up now...

Anyone having trouble pulling quotes on certain symbols (SWY, CPWR) for example through smart routing on IB? I can't seem to get anything. Other stuff seems fine. More than a bit odd...

roflol

As many have said, All they have to do is provide additional value and people will pay up. Fuel efficiency is the most obvious way to go as the benefit is immediate to the end user and doesn't actually shift the demand curve by lengthening the life of the vehicle. Of course, if they want...

For example, If the average car is leased for 36K miles then if you can increase fuel efficiency by $.03/gallon you could cover the "presumed" health care costs and benefit the environment at the same time. That's well less than the hybrids that GM didn't bother to develop will do -- and...

Well, That first article showed me that I don't know jack about options...:(

I'd expect kerkorian to tender for control, spin off the finance arm, dump the pension liabilities on the PBGC, and sell or merge the car company.

The question in my mind was had he lost control or was he just really good...:)

For those with some free time, watching HAR trade is quite something...

Dr Zhivodka, Do you still have any credit left when you buy in the wings or do you have to trade around the position to make money at that point?