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I agree that bulk shippers are cheap - I just dont understand why you'd pick the one with one of the worst balance sheets in the group. The ones I mentioned are smaller then DRYS, so I dont understand your bigger not always better comment. If you're like me and pick stocks by using...

As been stated many times CC/NP are the same risk scenario, BUT The reason why CC's are better then NP's is that retail investors who use NP's tend to blow out their accounts at a much higher rate. Owning something and having to pay for it upfront makes people take less risk. Talk to...

I've been wondering the same thing. I trade SPY options and there were many that dropped to .01-.15 and were 90% or more away from the last trade price. It was insane !

With so many shippers down in the dumper why would you pick the one (DRYS) that has about the worst balance sheet in the group ? I hope you got EBI on the dip ! (I own a few longer dated calls on ESEA and PRGN.)

I was looking at the charts on some of those thinly traded ETFS and thinking to myself that one computer screwed over another computer that was trying to short sell -

I'm surprised they burned you when you were hedged especially so fast... the trading at that time was crazy - I was long SPY calls and I threw up some low ball bids just to get my positions showing they had more then .15 cent value. I was using eOptions platform and had no problem getting...

This link shows the points that were 30% higher or lower http://media.globenewswire.com/cache/6948/file/8211.htm

@Fatt fair points The one thing I'd say is that the Dems can't control foreign debt markets from cracking and there are a whole host of current problems that are ahead of us unlike in 2006 when the ship was full steam ahead. Also don't underestimate the Fed's $1.25 trillion program which...

Fattburger you are correct, but I will ask you how you fared as a trader in 2000/2001. The same angst that kept me sidelined for some of the runup back then is the same angst I'm feeling now. The only difference is back then there was cheap REITS and cheap CEFs which were yielding double...

noddyboy it is an interesting dichotomy given there are so many people saying they are waiting for a pullback but then I read something like this and it says Bears are at a low http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/464042/Everyones-Bullish!-Now-Its-Really-Time-to-Freak-Out

I realize the FAS won't be 406$ next year ... I was just pointing out that it has gone up ~1$/day for over a month and it's just ridiculous IMO that it keeps going up everyday. (Sarcasm doesn't translate well on the internet ... my bad) I think it's only gone down 1$ once in all that time.

Ooops I forgot to add "in another year" and it was too late to edit. ...at this rate it will be 406$ "in another year" (Figure 300 trading days)

I read post after post and blog after blog of people saying they think the market is overbought, topped out, etc and yet day after day the market climbs higher. Seems everytime we have bad news the market opens up down and ends up 1% higher at the EOD. FAS has gone up ~36$ (from 70 to...

I'm 99% sure of this answer but, I dont trade those but I think the price is computed using the open prices in each stock (and open prices can be really jacked one way or another if there is a gap.) The settlement prices aren't disclosed for awhile and the time varies. I have a couple...

I just started w eOption but so far so good. I use limit orders and enter spreads one leg at a time, and haven't had any problems getting filled or getting my order held back or any kind of nonsense. Their website is pretty basic and their Quotestream can't be customized too much, but I...

Great article and thank you. To Subban - get a real browser and stop quoting 2 pages for one line.

They may not cut now that we found out the futures got whacked by the French guy... the market is expecting 50 point cut. Could get nasty ... BTW if we runup I'll be selling down my long positions or at least hedging big time

I hope SOCGEN goes out of business and they string up the execs like they did in the US for Enron. The world market cap got taken down at least a trillion dollars cause of one moron... GJ. What are the odds in Vegas he winds up dead ?

I think that guy is angry that none of the monoline insurers have gone BK yet ... he needs a vacation IMO

Hey $Cost - I'm glad to see this thread given some life ... I keep it in my bookmarks and check now and then :) I dunno about everyone else but how about a day when the market only goes up or down 1% ? The market goes up ~10% a year on average and yesterday there was a 10% swing in the XLF...