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What happens if you have 100 shares of stock X at 10 dollars a share can you sell short 100 shares of stock x at 10 ?

Why would you have a buy imbalance on a stock that the price is falling.

The contract count seems extremely high and it is for February. Sounds pretty risky. With the limited amount of time, the high volatility on the market and it is pretty out of the money why would someone do this unless they have some inside details or some kind of hedge? The bet from what...

anybody here can explain this?

I noticed those to indicators which were really high are real low now. I thought that indicated that money is being lent etc.. what am I reading wrong here?

heh, you should be able to. Etrade has a special sell fractional shares option. but the problem is do you want to waste commission to sell .148 shares :) I am surprised none of the pros here have been able to answer this question. I never see fractions of shares trading on etrade pro.

If the deficit keeps increasing and more tarps like TARP II,III,IV,V happen wont inflation hit very hard? I read that in the late 70s the interest rate to buy a house was 15% Can't this happen again? What will happen to stocks if that happens?

Anyone know what are some of the banks/financials not being nationalized or taking TARP money It seems that they are all falling under this umbrella.

Since shares are not traded in fractions where do they come from when dividends reinvest you get something like 40.3583 shares etc.. stocks like JNJ etc..

Okay I am reading abit more on this. Contingency orders like AON are permitted by the CBOE I found this interesting little PPT on how orders get processed. http://www.math.fsu.edu/~whu/Cbot.ppt

Oh I meant selling calls after buying GE stock to provide the cover (13.08) now I have cash no margin etc.. since I do not trade using margin (too risky for my tastes) I figured write the puts one month out or two on SPY since it is not too closely correlated but to collect some premiums...

On Etrade pro there is a check box for AON and it did place it. so I guess what happens then is they see this and just throw it out even though the software allows for it.

What if you do this lets say with GE. Sell a Deep in the money call for 1 year (2010 jan) to collect the 9% dividend. As long as GE keeps the dividend for 2009 it should be decent right? Use the premium you then collected and write some puts for spy?

When you trade options does your order actually go to some guy on the CBOE pit and into the open outcry trading. That would be kind of neat actually, if you put in your order and it ends up down there. Or is it 100% electronic now. I read that CBOE uses a hybrid system, part electronic part...

Thanks for the info, I bought GE for longterm but if I get my shares sold at 22 I am fine with that as well. I put VIX in as a SWAG I figured GE is supposedly the bellwether stock that represents sort of the broad economy. now looking at the chart I see that last year between may-july the...

Another question. Since this option is a little over 5 months do I use the 3 month tbill interest rate to do the calculation of the carrying cost as an input to my options calculator? Volatility would be the VIX right? This is what my calculation shows. delta gamma theta...

Thanks for the details I will keep the premiums and put them in my interest bearing account, maybe buy some more stocks and use the premiums with some of my paycheck to buy more stocks for the longhaul Options trading seems interesting, its like selling insurance contracts (ie GEICO) and...

Well it would not be naked, lets say my GE is sold at 22 because the call goes over, wont that be like a limit order but you get paid a premium (cash secured put?) This is what I read on the CBOE education site. About using cash secured puts instead of limit orders.

I wrote 4 contracts for 58 cents each which totaled 219 dollars after commissions this was on 400 shares of GE that I bought for 15.60 a couple of days ago. I did a limit order for .58 on Etrade and eventually it executed (it took hours and then it just went) This was for GE GEW FV 22...

CSCO,EBAY,GOOG would be considered growth stocks right?