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    Silver

    Hi All, Any ideas why SLV dropped today ? I'm very bullish on silver and ponder adding to my SLV position at this levels. I presumed that after SLV is approved it will create a short squeeze among bearish future traders and silver will go higher. I also started to accumulate MGN...
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    Advice on keeping a Good Journal?

    OneNote is a great tool. I use it for about a year now. I started using it when I purchased a tablet in the begining on 2005. At some point I realized that I can also use OneNote on my desktop as a trading jornal. I consider OneNote the best program MS managed to include in the office...
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    My dilemma - too good to be true? How long can I last?

    If it goes well for you just keep on trading as you do. Dont listen to anyone trying to tell you that the success is only temporary. Success is absolute. Just do what you do and dont change it as long as it works. I personally dont day trade as I have no time for that. I'm a swing trader...
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    Iran oil minister: See you at $100 crude

    If US doesn't fix Iran, Iran fixes US. In 1980 when Israelis bombed Iraq Nuclear research facility the Europe and the rest of pro muslim world condamned the act. If it werent for Israelis Iraq now have had nuclear weapon. So US couldnt have fixed Iraq. The Iran is the same sh*thole that...
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    No/Low risk, low return option strategies?

    Hi All, I've been actively trading options for 3 years now. The first year I took my losses (almost 10k) as a tuition. The second year I tried low risk strategies like vertical spreads and covered calls (although not pure options play). It made a lot of difference I made it all back...
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    Dividents arbitrage

    It is a sure that I will get the time premium for the May calls which the guy who bought it will want to exercise in December. And I still count on his sloppiness though :) The puts are totaly different don't you think ? There it is almost sure thing. I created the covered calls for...
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    Dividents arbitrage

    The current rate is 12.90$ which is 29.2% May I ask how did you come up with18% ?
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    Dividents arbitrage

    Hi All, I'm curredntly looking into something that looks like a clear arbitrage. I bought 500 shares of FRO stock that pays 30% dividents a year. I sold 2 in money (May) calls and bought 3 out of money puts. May 2006 puts cost me 10% of the stock price. Now if the stock tanks 20% I'm...
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    1stdaytradinginformation

    Has anyone used this guide ? It claims to be a silver bullet with all the usual lovely marketing pitch. Tons of free stuff XXX$ value. But somehow it catched my attention. So any users here ?
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    What happened to HOV

    Hehe, I'm happy I havent dumped the position. The next day it rallied 4%, sold it all.
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    What happened to HOV

    Thank you. First decent answer I get on this forum. I was actually tracking this thing and according to my understanding it was a sort of uptrend. Anyways, I only have ~300$ invested in it so no tears. What would you do in this situation sell the position or sell a higher call ?
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    What happened to HOV

    Hi All, I've bought a couple of calls when I received the Q2 earnings report on this stock. It kept sinking since then. I have two questions in this regard: 1) What the hell is going on with it ? I mean according to my (litle) understanding of the stcok market it should soar on higher then...
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    Some investment advice?

    Israeli goverment bonds (Shahar) pay 7.50% if you are willing to convert it to NIS. Comparing to Ruassia it is way more stable.
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    Strategy question

    Hi All, What do you think about the Nokia stock ? According to my understanding of technical indicators it has just bounced of its support at 13$. In the long term it looks promissing but I'd like to expedite things a bit. I'm thinking of selling a couple of put contracts Jul (13$) and...
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    Data feeds, stock picks

    Hi All, What software do you guys use to pick volatile stocks/index ?. I'm looking for something that will help me scan a sector, say pharmaceuticals for instance. I'd like to be able to pick some stocks/options on the basis of volume, price movement. The second thing would be the...
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    NVDA anyone ?

    hmm, Intel is far from dominating the GPU market. It may have like 80% of CPU market though. Intel has planty of good things comming and at the price of around 25$ I'm thinking Intel too.
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    NVDA anyone ?

    Hi all, I'm about to buy some NVidia shares. According to the technical tests their new GPU is faster and better than the competition (ATI). would appreciate any comments.
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    Existing HD in another existing computer

    Always have two partitions on your drive: one for OS (Windows or whatever) another for data. If you had the configuration that I just described then just reinstall Windows on the first (system partition) and install all the drivers required by your new comp. I did this many times (I work with...
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    TIVO - What Happened?

    I guess its backfire on the tech stocks. All techs were beaten up, so its no wonder tivo is down.
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    Anyone following Jim Cramer advices ?

    It appears the most sane for me is to stick with mutual funds. Any particular fund recommendation ? I already have a couple of long term investments and was willing to play with more speculative bets but u guys have chilled me down a bit. I was really lucky last couple of years in the...
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