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Hell, if you're going to be a douchebag and make a highly suspicious trade that's gonna get your ass busted, why didn't they just buy 15 million worth of the may 45 calls? That way they would've made like 500 million!!!! At least go down in history as the biggest insider trade ever.

Test your system for 5 years with your own real money, then people might consider giving you anything at all. Nobody's going to give someone w/ a system money if it's not proven w/ real money already.

Yeah.. people dont dump all their fixed-income assets because they overheard talk of a buyout. They had rock solid information and knew for a fact the annoucement was coming.

What do you mean nothing is delivered? It's cash settled BASED ON THE UNDERLYING. That itself is enough to force it into fair value territory.

If wall st manipulates this far enough down, I'm going to buy. You can only kill stocks that are small companies and have weak fundamentals. Granted IBKR may be overvalued right now, but the company does have strong fundamentals and is in no way a small company.

You can call microsoft and lie and say that you replaced a dead motherboard but it's the same machine. They'll give you an activation code for it I think. Anyway, I have a copy of XP from my university (included w/ the technology fee or whatever). It's not a retail or OEM disc, so I'll just...

Is it worth it to get a stand for 2 monitors, or are the default stands that come w/ em good enough? I'm getting 2X22" widescreens

IB isn't going bankrupt.

Pretty big gamble, a 500K options earning play.

Take a look at June 40 calls option activity on Monday :)

scott, i want evidence that you shorted it, so i can laugh at you when you lose money on it.

The charting software w/ TWS is fine w/ me, it's the broken T&S that pisses me off big time because I need T&S to do one type of end of day analysis that I do.

As long as you can activate it, you can get updates, etc.. Who cares if you transfer OEM software to another machine, do you think microsoft really gives a crap? They only do it so the big guys (dell, etc..) arn't letting people reuse old copies of the software.

Man do I wish i could trade on the SSE. Long straddle 1 year out = gaurenteed win.

A lot of arbitrage techniques are useless for retail, due to margin requirements. You get charged 25% margin or 50% margin (depending on product) on a 0 risk position that you're making a few pennies on. Fuck that.

I actually investigated the high options volume on this a few days ago, but dismissed it as insignificant due to the fact that there was significant put volume as well.

James, what are you paying for commission? Paying $10 / trade to trade 100 shares or so is killer. Consider IB, $1 / trade for up to 200 shares. I felt the pain of $10 commissions when every trade I made involved $20K of leverage. If you switch to IB, don't ACATS anything other then...

paden, if you don't like to gamble, then you should definately close this position out asap. Shorting a straddle on DNDN is a straight up gamble.

If there was a $1 / day carry cost on the contract (which is this case it's about 1%), then it'd be too easy to just short contracts and make a killing.

That was a week after the IPO opened though. Maybe I was wrong on the time span. But I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to short an IPO the first day. I'm surprised you're allowed to short it after a week.