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I hope they are smart enough to have seen what happened to MSFT when they tried to juice up their earnings report by announcing a dividend and a split. Chambers has a rep for being a straight shooter and consistent. I don't expect anything flashy one way or the other. But on a fundamental...

It appears to me that after the close yesterday there was some retracement to the up side. The flurry upwards just prior to the close may have been some short covering on the day. I look for some degree of increase in price going into tuesday's close but perhaps not as much as in the past. I...

Oh well, so much for positive thinking

You'll still get filled before the close. $13.11 coming up !

Trajan: I second the vote on IB's analyics. BTW, I stuck your inputs into CBOE's "toolbox" and came up with long 720 Delta FWIW. Wish you luck here man. You must be pretty bearish on the stock.

Good one !

It's expiration and the judge just exercised his puts. Good riddance!

Stokhack: I'm assuming you mean "a large amount of TIME value built into the option". Do you mean go further OTM or ITM to get movement?

I'm currently using IB and Preferred as a backup. If both quotes agree then I feel secure about the data. Used RealTick for years but IB is ok for the price and my style.

JD: sorry, I just re-read one of your posts and realized you're saying this is common. If you're using delayed quotes you're asking to get your head handed to you IMO. Adequate data doesn't cost.

JD; i've never seen the CBOE quotes. What are you using to determine IV ? Is there a column for that on their screens? Also, you could give us the specifics w/o the name of the underlying. Wouldn't be as helpful though. Even so I don't think there is enough horsepower on these boards...

I suspect that, as QDZ mentioned above, the may have been some uncertainty about the underlying leading up to the open. That uncertainty was resolved and the vol dropped rather than spiking. I got burned that way several years back on some OEX puts going into a FED meeting. The Fed did...

I broke down and used the AVERAGE Fx.:)

ZT: Thank you !

Trajan; are you now flat the stock or short it ?

I have a column of numbers in an excel sheet. I have figured everything I want except the "mean" and can't find the correct function command. Anyone help? TIA

Inandlong: keep guessing

What kind of size are you talking about? Seems as though you've taken the worst part of the hit. I wasn't watching this one but it must have been quite sudden to have gotten away from you this badly. Wish you luck

There are too many ins and outs for me to keep up with so I leave it to Green & Co. I had a great yr. in 97-98 and a bad one in 99. Claimed MTM and recouped almost all previously paid taxes. It's been easy ever since. The wash sale rule is nice to be rid of. As I recall reading the info...

I'm convinced Nitro !! I'm going long hairy balls monday morning and shorting coffee.