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Looks like it broke through your support. I think shareholders were disappointed that the CD's did not contain "Jailhouse Rock" and "I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)".

It turns out that some rural farmers in Africa already use handhelds, connected together via solar-powered wireless relay stations. I heard about this last year. When dealers come to buy their crops, it's very useful to know what the going rate is in the city, where they'll be sold. The...

That hasn't happened to me (running the 2004 and 2005 versions of VirusScan). In some cases, the consumer version of McAfee will start up IE to do its updates, and maybe your IE is doing something that starts up MS Messenger. You can actually uninstall MS Messenger - I did so on my home system...

Thanks for the replies - I understand now. But, the premiums for ITM puts still seem lower than usual to me. So I looked back at the prices on Aug 19 at 16:00, when the September SPY puts had 4 weeks left on them. With SPY at 122.27, the Sep 124 P was 2.50x2.60. VIX was 13.81. Today...

There's also USU. They're mentioned on CNBC and in the WSJ once in awhile. The announcement of govt support for new nuclear power a couple months ago sparked a rally in the utility EXC.

With near the money options, puts usually have a higher extrinsic value than calls - greater risk of a sudden drop, upcoming dividend, etc. But I'm seeing the opposite on SPY and QQQQ right now. For instance, with SPY at 120.95, the Oct 119 C is $3.20x$3.30 and the Oct 124 P is $3.20x$3.40...

You can also trade options on $XAU. IV is low, bid/ask spreads are kind of wide, but you can get filled inside the spread.

My understanding is that the exchanges, when they temporarily halt trading in a stock, almost always request other venues to halt trading, but that sometimes the others don't obey - see http://nasdaqtrader.com/trader/news/2003/headtraderalerts/hta2003-164.stm for one example:

I was thinking of getting a Dell laptop until I read on one of the opinions websites that they will weasel out of fixing screen problems unless you purchased the extra-cost accidental damage coverage. Does anyone here have first-hand experience with this?

I too have to upgrade my TWS version, which I've been clinging to because it's the most recent version that still uses port 4001 for market data. Our firewall blocks port 4000. I can try to get our IT dept to unblock it to for specific IP addresses; can anyone tell me which hostnames or IP...

Was there anyone identifiable who was pumping it? All I saw was the price going up last week and news reports saying that it was due to the expectation of brokers starting positive coverage this week. Did Meeker include BIDU in her report on Monday?

I assume. But given that it got into autoexercise range during the last minute of trading on Friday probably meant (1) a lot of unexpected exercises (2) a lot of unexpected margin calls on Monday morning (3) downward pressure at the open on Monday as some stock was liquidated to relieve the...

Saw on the DJ newswire yesterday afternoon that UBS said HOV's recent underperformance was a "buying opportunity". Why on earth do brokers take these big chances, issuing recommendations hours before an earnings report?

I trade SPY options during the 2 to 3 weeks before expiration, when I can trade options with a delta of .7 or better with a spread size no worse than $.10. That means the under-$3 options, because the spreads are typically 2 ticks, although this month the spreads for options in the $2-$3 range...

NVTL and SWIR. But they are well off their highs, and some believe that wireless communications chips/boards has become a commodity business.

Sure - see http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51251 for the story of someone this actually happened to.

If the show is that popular, maybe they can pay someone to actually write some decent background/theme music. How many more times (:)) must we listen to the same two measures of music looped over and over?

Republicans likely endorse the concept of SEC section 31 fees, which make the commission self-supporting. Democrats likely support it, too, because the fees collected this year ($1.22B) will exceed the budget ($913M, and from looking at http://www.sec.gov/foia/docs/budgetact.htm they usually...

CTTY has recently been swinging up or down better than 15% per day. Daily volume exceeds float. Shares have quadrupled in price since June. Chairman resigned and sold most of his shares. Nasdaq has sent them a delisting notice, which they're appealing. No options on the stock, so you can't...

The audit file is mostly used to help debug problems, I believe, so it's more useful to have the times in the raw xml file be UTC. But if you want the html files, the ones you view in a browser, to have localized times, it's likely just a matter of adding stuff to c:\Jts\audit.xsl so that the...