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and, the # it shows you there on the order confirmation screen, is your TOTAL margin requirement AFTER the trade. Which means it counts all your other positions too.

trading is halted for an hour, i think, after dow loses 1000 points in 1 trading session. Better start panic selling ASAP after that :)

Oh, he'll redeem them all right, to keep his "business" "legit", but only after laughing about ripping you off 40%.

It sounds like he didn't set a stop, he just put a straight limit order, and is complaining that his marketable order got filled like it was supposed to.

You my friend, are an idiot. You placed a limit order for 1.997. The current market price (apparently) was 1.9984, which means your limit order was a marketable order, and gets filled right away at the market price. Learn how the orders work before you start bitching.

you're printing out a manual? Hope you're not paying for the printer/paper/toner/ink.

volatility is volatile. There's a reason why VIX options often trade at > 100% IV.

You earn interest on the $900 received You do NOT pay interest on the maintenance requirement. IF THIS IS NOT THE CASE, YOUR BROKER IS FUCKING YOU OVER, because I have NEVER heard of a broker that doesn't pay interest (according to their regular interest payment schedule that is) on cash...

There's no realized or unrealized profit immediately when you sell the put. In actuality you'd probably start with an unrealized loss due to commissions and slippage. There's no profit until the stock moves favorably in your direction, or stays flat long enough for vega to decrease, or theta...

If you could predict the market that well and take a position to get a win in 1 account and a loss in another, the smarter thing to do is to just take the win, and pay tax on it. So that scenario is unrealistic. Now, finding a security with a very wide spread and trading against yourself...

every once in a while someone posts a market order disaster story here.. go read some of those.

Yeah, I figured it was AAPL.. but those premiums are pretty high, since you're not so certain about the stock moving over 100, I'd say go for deep ITM calls or just buy the stock. If you buy ATM or close to the money calls, the time premiums are huge.

The optimum time for the roll would be right before the stock moves up, since the closer to the money option moves up more then the further to the money option. However, if you could predict this, you'd be closing out the position instead of rolling it. I honestly don't see the point in...

short straddles are not spreads, they are short straddles. a spread is either a calender, vertical, or diagonal spread. No IRA is going to let you trade short straddles, those have undefined risk. Now, if you want to do an iron condor/butterfly, that's a different story.

depends on where you feel the stock's going to go. If you think the stock's going to go under 55 by expiration, then you just hold tight, if you think the stock is going to keep going up, you don't roll it up, you close it out. If you think the stock is going to break 55 and hold above 55...

If you're that confident, load up the truck with 90, 95, and 100 calls 2 months out, and pick up some stock too. When the stock hits the level that makes you think it's going to go back down, short as many shares of it as you have contracts to cover it. By expiration day, if it's back to 90...

25% return / monthly huh? Sounds like straight up gambling to me.

Yep, if you want to trade 2000+ shares / trade, you need to open an account at a flat-rate brokerage, not per-share.

Oh, in that case I read it wrong. INTC was very effective in doing what it wanted to then.

hels, I was posting in response to the comment about AMD taking a hit on their bottom line to hurt INTC's bottom line more. I was saying that INTC didn't really get hurt, and they're maintaining profitablility while AMD fucks themself over.