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same way you move on after being dumped. Stop looking at the ticker! Stop consistently thinking about what life would be like if you made the correct decision! These two thoughts will kill your future trades. Take the lost opportunity and move on to the best next trade you can manage...

Who's worried about the federal reserve stepping in further? It's dangerous to short treasuries without clear and drawn out intentions from the fed. My fear is being short treasuries in some fashion and then have the federal reserve monetize even further and kill positions.

I ROFLed at that one!

You mean it wasn't the billion dollars worth of subprime loans they orginated going bad? gee who would have thought more customers would create giant losses?!! /sarcasm

Who gives a $&*# who's fault it is? Everyone is suffering because we've lived in some hocus pocus dream fantasty global boom built on NOTHING! EVERYONE BENEFITED FROM 2003-2007!!!!! China, ALL OF EUROPE, Russian, mexico, India, ALL OF SOUTH AMERICA, MOST OIL EXPORTING COUNTRIES!!!1 So...

rofl, more taxes to fund an organization who historically SUCKS at what they do?

There's always going to be an emphasis on math, but you also need a simple sharp mind to understand trading. Ask yourself if you need some highly developed computer model to understand overpriced and undersold areas? Do you need math to recognize changes in volume, direction and fear? No...

Dollars are created with cotton not paper

Lets revisit the topic. "Let' say I am doing a dividend capture and using a short deep ITM call, two-to-three months out, to hedge my long stock for 61 days (to get the favorable tax treatment on the dividend.) What is the likelihood and reason why my deep ITM call would be assigned early...

You call will be assigned the day before it goes ex-dividend. Dagnty is wrong about being assigned WITH this strategy.

if the dow closes at 6547.34 would signal the most pivotal position of all time. I don't know what will happen but it will be so epic and violent your monitor will explode and shoot charting bars through your skulls causing more damage than your mother did doing black tar heorin during your...

Seriously, There can't be a capitulation when there are strong expectations the government will step in at in moment.

exactly, and they keep any slippage costs from the trade

slippage?

Explain how pricing is not important?

Consumption tax is failure. Look at california! Spending/taxation fucked them royally.

Excellent actually :p Way to dodge my point

thanks for the replies dangty and others. I will weigh the risk/reward and carry thru my strategy

taken from wikipedia VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. A high value corresponds to a more volatile market and therefore more costly options, which can be used to defray risk...

Save money = slippage? So they arb the slippage by buying my ITM call, exercising it, then selling it for the small gain? I was going to start looking into foriegn markets for European options, but that subjects me to fx risk