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Hey, I just started trading and did something really stupid, and now I am stuck with 400 shares of something I don't want. I don't want to take a loss outright, and was wondering what some of the pros would do in my situation? This is a pretty long post, so if you don't want to read it...

These guys don't use Dark Pools?

OP, I'm actually quite curious about this. So let's say you are short and then instead of being stopped out, you go long. How do you exit out of your long position? Is there a stop for your long position?

I think commission is the same. If you have a long term growth outlook but you get stopped out, you have to get back in at some point. So you buy twice and sell twice. If you do what the OP says and short the stock while you are long, you also buy twice and sell twice. Capital...

OP look up 'Short against the Box"

Yeah, I've always thought using Google Trends could predict certain events. However, I think it really depends on what you are trying to predict. For example, looking at his graph depicting the increase in searches for "Lehman Brothers" it still seems like that was a lagging indicator. I...

Thanks! What about emerging market demand, Brazil more than China and OPEC's production rules? I don't know about the Middle East being too stable...Egypt and it's military rule. Possible sanctions on Iran. Although if there is a huge pro-western movement, that could lower oil prices. I...

You should get into that social media ETF. SOCL http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SOCL&ql=0

Just want to get your thoughts. Anybody else super bullish on oil with a time horizon of 6+ months? I need some contrarian view points. Too much confirmatory bias in my head.

Haha I wasn't even aware you can download stuff onto Macs.

Haha this is funny. Don't know if Spotify is a Pandora killer or not but assuming I'm the average guy, since I live in an average apartment and have an average job, I'm using Pandora not Spotify. Know why? Quick glance at Spotify's website and it says I need to download something. Maybe...

How do you know that? All I see are a bunch of option exercises at $1.50 a share. Does that signify insider selling?

And where are these mentors? I'd like to learn.

I'm assuming these funds are designed to track 2x or 3x the daily return? Is that true for most leveraged ETFs? Let's say in the first hour of trading S&P 500 goes up by 1%. Is SSO supposed to go up by 2% in the hour? Or it doesn't matter until the end of the day. In other words, is the...

It would be nice if you explained why you thought they were inefficient. And inefficient compared to what?

Hey, I was wondering if there are any studies on Price - NAV as an indicator as to whether or not a fund is overvalued/undervalued and if the price will eventually correct itself? For this I am primarily interested in passive funds. Also, I was wondering if there are any studes on Price...

So I just sold my first covered call a few weeks ago, and as you know today is expiration. I sold it when the option was out of the money, but on expiration, the option is about a dollar in the money. (It was fine for me because I was planning on selling the underlying at the strike price...

Thanks! That makes life so much easier than actually having to buy the underlying.

I was wondering if anybody knew how settlement works? From the specifications on the CBOE, it seems like it's cash settled. Is that true? So for example, if I sell a VIX put and the holder exercises the option, I don't end up buying a basket of assets that I have to sell later? I just...

Thanks so much! Never heard of those platforms but I will definitely check it out!