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Date Symbol SHARES BUY SHARES SELL % P/L Days Held 10-Oct-05 HANS 180 43.82 12/15/2005 100.00 80.1 12/20/2005 50.00 78.7 82.00% 68 10/10/2005 SWN 200 34.65 12/15/2005 100.00 36.27 12/20/2005...

December 19, 2005 Initiated new positions today in TALX at 43.09 and RTSX at 34.25, both small and I am looking to add in the near future Weakness today in RTSX, I would have loved to buy this stock on weakness but it looks like this was dilution. Maybe not fully diluted, but in a strong...

Just completed a screen... the initial screen yields 46 stocks, a smaller than average universe and a lot of familiar faces. My screens always provide insightful macro observations about the market. Today’s screen tells me market leadership hasn’t changed much and the pace of capital...

GMXR rocks! but I am close to taking at least partial profits... I really liek this company and their prospects so this is a co. i dont mind holding a partial lot on longer term as long as i am in the black...

All of these trades were bought on October 10th and on December 15th I sold partial lots in: HANS: Bought at 43.82 sold at 80.10 +83% gain (A 40 bagger!!!) MTN: Bought at 30.20 and sold at 35.71 +18% gain SWN: Bought at 34.65 and sold at 36.27 +5% gain Remarkable gains and...

A VERY PROFITABLE METHODOLOGY I. Introduction I have been developing a trading methodology now for two years and decided, in light of the success I am experiencing, I will pursue this to the next level: professional money management. I decided on an initial release to elite trader as my...

approx. 895 million contracts in 2003, or about 15% better than the previous record..

to roll out Q1 2004, anyone talking or see oppurtunity other than the usual ramblings, ala SSF's...

hey mav, or anyone, are there any issues whose options trade with tighter spreads... i tried various div plays with various options, i.e. the covered writes, conversions, etc... and did find as you stated, the spread is generally large enough to erase any div gain... anyone willing to share...

yeah, my understanding with what they were doing was serious size and just hoping for maybe 5% doesnt get assigned... nitro, thanks for the input and thats def something to take into account before entering a trade... with MO, that jsut happend to be the example tehy were using, and most of...

depends on state and individual b/d's... the big problem comes inot play more on the nasd side; most staes ans b/d's wont allow you to be dual registered, particularly if you are being paid commisions from both... the answer ultimately will come from your compliance officer, so when you present...

yeah... just trying to capture the div with little to no risk, but its difficult to do off floor or esp in a retail account esp w/ higher fees b/v you rmargins are so slim.. is this strategy employed by the "real" options prop firms in chicago area?

gotcha, i kind of assumed right away this strategy would be difficult for a retail trader to replicate, and was mostly utilized by floor or mm... what are teh chances of getting hit on an attractive ditm retail bid. i also imagine a floor/mm may not be buying ditm calls jsut for this strategy...

the synthetic is being short a naked put, right? my understanding of the strategy is very little to no risk, but also a smaller chance of making $$

why bother buying the ditm calls and excercise, versus just buying the long stock? the call price "should" be reduced by the amount of the div at ex-div, similar to how a specialist opens a listed stock ex-div? ive followed a lot of these and it doesnt seem to be teh case, simialr to how its...

read it in barons, the strategy was presumably to capture dividends, but the mechanics were not clear. here is the excerpts: "Take altria for example which will pay on 1/9 a quarterly dividend of 68 cents a share. last wednesday was teh last day for div seeking investors to enter teh position...

this journal thing is tough work, seemed real easy but dont really have the time and i still keep the paper notes, so whats the point... i dont know if i will keep posting so moderator, feel free to remove thread if you see this and its been a few weeks

Chris could you clarify a few things for me? i am somewhat familiar w/ you guys, been to your website, participated in you rtrading rooms, etc... my impression is you guys are more TA oriented... when i think of tape reading i think of reading specialist, determining big buyer/seller...

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hilarious... yeah i signed up for this shit and cant believe im not retired yet, all i had to do was buy low sell high the same stock again and again... SO EASY