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Yes ... I was looking at the SEP options charts when I saw your reply. Normally expiration week is great for me, but I generally avoid the last 30 minutes of trade, so haven't needed to focus on settlement. Still, I have entered/exited options positions near the close, not realizing I could...

Thank you very much def - I'm a long-time customer and I do appreciate it. A few follow on questions, if I may: A. On any given day stock orders can be submitted between 14:50 and 15:00, with all of those orders matched at the same 15:00 price? B. On any given day one can submit index...

RMBS Glad you are in the market, chump.

This is where I think we're in trouble, because those estimates are everyone's best guess of what 'new normal' earnings are going to look like. Consumers are still losing jobs, houses, and net worth. He is on his back for the foreseeable future - a condition unprecedented in the lifespan of...

This is simply not true. Here is an example to illustrate: A stock has a BV/Share of $100, and the shares are trading at $100. All assets are cash and the company has zero debt. Now assume, as you said, it pays zero dividends. If this company earns more than the investor's cost of capital, it...

The Nasdaq bubble was marked by fear of the 'Year 2000' software issue and Greenspin's preventive injection of liquidity. Our latest greatest real estate bubble was marked by a peak in ARM resets that occurred 3Q '07. So ... what do YOU think will be the catalyst for blow-off top of our...

This question relates to the Kospi 200 index options for Aug expiry, which expired yesterday at the close 14:50 Korea time. I got completely reamed ... wondering if someone could shed some light, beyond the obvious. The gist: Stock and stock index options ceased trading at 14:50 local...

It's meaningless to look at these types of historical charts, because It Is Different This Time. Duhhh ... But seriously, recently the aggregate S&P 500 posted Negative quarterly earnings (if I'm not mistaken), so everyone is just guessing where steady-state earnings are likely to reset...

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Damn. Lose the girlfriend or wife dude. No b*tch is worth sitting through a movie about some b*tch shopping. Then again, if you are female, uhhhh .... I take it back? :p

Funny thread, but illustrative. For the very short term this raging 'bull market' is masking some extreme underlying conditions. We still have another spike in Alt-A Arms due in about 12 months. Interesting times ...

Someone uses his pseudonym on ET sure enough. But everyone knows 'DB' is a semi-retired porn actor. Currently he spends most of his time chasing real acting gigs - you may have seen him in a couple of music videos here and there. But I heard he still dips his 'toe' in the blue screen from...

I know this is an ironic place to be asking such a question, but ... anyone here currently or previously a member of VIC?

Well, I just updated my flash player but the problem still recurs intermittently. Oh well ....

Ok ... I'm concluding it has to do with my piss-poor internet connection. (I'm on a somewhat remote mountain hillside in what is still considered a developing Asian country.) It is not pop-up ads or a virus. When I navigate to a new forum page, the bottom activity bar reads 'tranferring...

This is to complain about how an advertisement page interrupts whenever one navigates from one page to the next. At first I could deal with it occurring occasionally, but now it is every page, and simply eating too much of my time and patience. No other website I visit pushes advertising onto...

You are out of line, and I've asked that your posts be removed from this thread.

Thanks ... I'm looking at some roles in sell-side fundamental research so there are obvious restrictions on individual equities. But, if we get a 'double-dip' or an earthquake topples downtown Tokyo, for example, I would want to actively manage a position in broad index futures and...

I may take a job that would change my status from individual to professional. Beyond a change in some data access fees, how will my IB service change? I have this vague impression from somewhere that IB will send my employer a monthly summary of my trading activity. Is that so? I ask...