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bird flu? War? I read that when a country becomes overpopulated with men, you need some kind of war or disaster to thin the herd, return the job market to normal? I read about this somewhere once.

You see a regular red or green bar but then a long thin line extending below. sometimes you have small squarish bars with two thin lines one on the top and one on the bottom.

I only sell puts on a stock I would want to own but at a lower price than what it is selling for. I am not borrowing money or writing a big amount of puts, only the amount of puts equivalent to the amount of stock I am willing to take if it crosses the strike price.

I take my time on trying to figure out the price using those options pricing tools. I have not written any yet for next month since I am still working out the details. I am still learning though.

These seem like high P/E's the S&P in general seems like its trading at 17-18 p/e. Does not seem like too much of a bargain. am I seeing something wrong, the banking stocks seem like they are particiularly trading at some high p/e's WFC 33x P/E BAC 13.8 p/e AXP 12.7 p/e

I remember in the 70's credit cards were not that common. Infact if you had one it was actually considered that you were well off. Most people did layaway and paid cash etc.. It is not like it is now where everyone could have multiple cards.

Bottom line no more free points? I rack up lots of points on my etrade visa card and all my trades end up commission free basically when I turn my points in.

Also I thought when you were going to sell new shares you are supposed to announce it on some disclosure. It seems like Bank of America just started dumping the shares out without letting anyone know.

IF you thought it could go back up would buying one or two of those new VIX options be useful. Right now my only experience is selling puts and writing covered calls. But those premiums are pretty low now.

I wonder if it will go up around september/october. I remember when it was 78 at one time.

I have not been trading for long so what is the normal number typically? (about a little over 1 year and some) So does this mean that stocks might have bottomed already?

Sounds kind of fishy. If they had a secret recipe for making money why would they be teaching people the secret? There is usually a buyer but if the price is right :) no one seems to want to buy my covered calls for the price I want to sell.

I noticed it looked like it went under 30. And I am sitting on the sidelines right now I probably wont write any covered calls for june since the premiums are so stingy now. Why is the VIX so low?

Wow Tricky. Those people at GS are so tricky.

I would like to go long again on some equity but I would rather wait for another drop. My thoughts were that when GM announces Ch11 there should be a decent drop on the S&P correct?

Why would what he invest in make me happy? But knowing what he is invested in does provide some kind of insight. When Bush/Cheney were in the white house they had lots of investments in oil and military industrial companies, ie HAL etc.. So they were bullish on that and those stocks seemed...

I have noticed if a stock is trading around an average price but lower than usual volume the that price is not to be trusted. I noticed if volume is low on the trades and priced drops but every so often a bigger volume line and prices go up that if I buy on the price when it drops again I can...

The have 98-98.5% cash/treasuries. less than 1-1.5 in mutual funds/equities. To me it just says they do not have confidence enough that our economy will get better so they are not investing in our economy by putting money at risk buying a stake in American company equities or bonds. not even...

http://moneyfeatures.blogs.money.cnn.com/2009/05/18/obamas-favorite-mutual-fund/ That would mean he is bearish on the US economy, If he thought the economy was headed up then he could have parked his money on the S&P 500 index. This is an interesting tell.

Thats what I was thinking. They can upgrade the stock and then buy puts. That would not be illegal right?