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John is correct as applied to a retail trader. Look at the following irs publication pg. 72. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf According to the IRS, Gains and losses from selling securities as part of a trading business are not subject to self employment tax. I was personally...

Some of those deep ITM options go a few days without trading, so the net change is based on a closing price that might be a little old.

Briefing had the news 1 minute after the drop started. Considering they are a secondary new source, I'm sure the drop coincided with one of the major wire services.

CRM; Check out the call volume on June contracts.

Not sure with CAT, but it happens elsewhere every night. You will often see bids and offers that look to be a couple pennies away from the close, but in reality are more than a $1 away from the last print. I put in orders like this on a regular basis and usually get filled a couple times a...

I agree that Pisani and some of the other commentators are annoying, but Faber broke the DJ story today, and the action in the publishing stocks in the minutes following the report was enough to make your week. I could care less how annoying somebody is, as long as their comments create volatility.

You can say what you want about CNBC, but the DJ story is not the first time they broke a story about a pending deal. If you are an equities trader, the action on the publishing stocks today seems like a good enough reason to watch. They also did a great job with MEDI a few weeks ago.

Watch FIZ for a possible piggyback move, JSDA signed a distribution deal with them last week.

At first I thought it was the fraud at BZH, but with oil jumping all over the place, who knows.

It was definitely getting a little too easy on the short side. Seems the squeeze coincided with Cramer's "Dirty Dozen" article highlighting the most popular short plays in the subprime sector.

One of the better calls I've seen on these boards.

Because a lot of the growth seen the last few years was a result of the easy money available to consumers, now that banks are tightening up credit, no more free money for the consumers. People will have to actually earn a dollar instead of tapping their HLOC's.

Back to normal.

I was told they are looking into it.

You've got to be kidding, here is IB's updated short list. A total of 10 stocks available. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ViewShortableStocks.php?cntry=usa&tag=United%20States&ib_entity=llc&ln=

Yeah, I was trying to enter short trades on GOOG, LEH and MER a few minutes before they fell apart.

What I mean is that I went through my TWS and put in sell orders a few cents above on 20 different stocks and I got a solid blue in the status line for every trade. All of these stocks are on their list of shortable stocks. This fuckn sucks!

I just went through 20 different stocks that are available according to the IB home page, and I couldn't short any of them.

Has anyone else experienced a sudden unavailabe short problem with IB? Stocks I've been trading all day ie: GOOG, LEH, MER are no longer shortable.

Looks like it traded 500 shrs at 1.01 the real low looks to be around 1.2. I don't know when the options will start trading.