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I noticed that on thursday or friday expiration I notice some stocks crash hard price was if its trading around one of the strikes and lots of open interest on the call. Like GE I notice it was hovering around 14 and the call open interest was high and now a big plummet under 14. Is there...

whats a quarterly option? All I see are the regular mont to month options (ie jan,feb,etc..)

Shareholder means you are part owner of the company correct? So if the company paid taxes on its earnings then why do I have to pay taxes on dividends? Wont that be like getting a paycheck net after taxes and then at the end of the year having to pay another 15% on top?

I would not want to buy bonds today. What happens when inflation kicks in 3-4 years from now. Not an expert but bonds are priced an amount of basis points over the comparable treasury. the spread is determined by risk. so higher risk more points over the treasury. so if inflation hits then...

How come we don't fine EU companies in retaliation.

I think SPY over 30 years too risky to hold a stock over 30 years.

I heard that the bonds are going to be used to help fund the purchase of SAP. But even with the bond money and cash equivalents its not enough unless they also plan to issue stock.

I heard with pakistan the nuclear option is on the redbook. If taliban shows up in pakistan wielding a nuke I would not be surprised if a medium yield device is detonated over pakistan.

It looks like Obama is announcing more taxes today in addition to the taxes he proposed. Lets say people making over 250K only take home 50K, why take a higher stress job and just take the easier 50K Job? And a business, wont they just pass the tax down to consumers by raising the cost of...

Maybe I am making a mistake. How come Microsoft net income doubled from 8billion in 04 to 17.6 billion in 08 But shareholder equity went from 74billion down to 36.2 billion? What is happening to the shareholder equity? Diluted earnings per share in 08 was 1.87 compared to .75 in 04...

Can the retail investor buy insurance on bonds like they can with equities?

What is odd is BAC is at a P/E of 17 JPM 68?? WFC 38 AXP 15 (credit card) Siemens 21 Tyco,Phillips both posted losses CBS posted loss TWX posted losses So its peers in these industries are either trading at big P/Es or posting losses. GE is only worth a P/E of 8.98 Thats...

I only recieved on message this time. Does that mean since I no longer got the the imbalance messages it was corrected? Also is there a book or some reference that explains all these trading below or above specialist messages and other assorted stuff I get on the screen.

I bought a whole bunch of GE at 6.88 (7500 shares) and still holding but I am at a dilemma. I notice that the analyst have a 12 month price target for 13 dollars, Why would GE be trading at 14.53. I am thinking of writing covered calls for GE with a strike of 15 for june so I can collect 68...

I got the NYSE notification 20 minutes before closing. Is it possible someone was waiting at the last minute to buy up a bunch of GE and pushed the price up? About 1.2 million shares traded at the 12:40-43 time period and then around the last 6 minutes 4.9 million traded primarily...

Today GE had a sell imbalance of about 1.7million, and ge was trading at 14.45-14.47 then ended up closing 14.52 Why would this happen?

I am not sure what to do here? closed out my positions and ended up with a short term gain of 287K how do I deal with taxes? Am I supposed to pay something upfront or get hit with a penalty? How do I figure out how much to set aside for taxes?

I heard he writes calls on his holdings so even if it goes sideways the calls and dividends should be nice.

I went to CNN to read up on news and I saw a big clock ticking down 2 hours about some kind of big GE announcement.

I have to agree. Time square lost its character.