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Thank you. This is the "market center"definition i get from the R QuantTools package I am using for parsing times&sales: 8 CHX Chicago Stock Exchange 9 PHLX Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Hi. I was trying to understand what was going on this apparently combined option/stock trade I saw last week and I thought that may be some kind soul here could help. At 11:23 of January 16, 550 Call 165 on STZ expiring on Feb. 22 STZ190222C00165000 were bought at 2.65, a price near the ask...

how about chess? Are chessplayers appreciated ad well?

that was funny....sometimes I feel that even my broker, that is also market maker on the options I trade, is doing the same... :)

I am looking for an online broker to trade the US market from Italy. I am mainly interested in using stocks and options. IB is good, but asks for a minimum 10000 USD deposit. Is there any other online brokwer you would recommend? Thanks in advance. Arturo

Like they say in Paris, this guy is too damn fu.cking good! :)

Impressive. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. However, one thing Is that strook me is that apparently you are playing mainly the upside potential of stock earnings. Am I correct? In positive case, are you playing in this way because you see in general a bullish market and therefore a higher...

'Chess Life', the magazine of the US chess federation,used to have in the late eighties ads from financial companies that were looking for strong chess players to hire. As far as I remember, a few of them indeed gor hored and quitted chess (GM Max Dlugy was one of them). As of today, the...

As you will notice, there has been a strong bullish activity on FB options on tuesday 10. So may be, you are in good company :)

Thank you! You have a PM.

The MULE trade was an excellent one. Congratulations! I was monitoring too the option activity and I saw a strong bullish activity on this underlying past the mid-day, but most of the move was already and so I din't enter. You seem to have had instead a much better timing than anyone else. If...

High open interest means that there is....interest in the underlying. If it is long or short interest depends on the trade, i.e. if it was on the bid or the ask. To know this you need to have daily times and sales. Also, as someone already reported, these transactions can be part of a bigger...

Wow, John! I am impressed. Thank you so much. Arturo

Sorry for being somewhat off-topic, but I would be interested also in getting the statistcs from this yahoo page: http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/key-statistics?p=AAPL Is there any workaround also for retrieving these data? Thanks in advance. Arturo

Thanks, Kevin. Appreciated.

Great tip, John. Thank you. Is there a way to get all the expiration dates in one page? Thanks again. Arturo

That's a nice one. They have also a free, though delayed, service. I'll try it. Thanks for mentioning it. https://www.optionistics.com/

Thanks, zdreg. You are right: the data on short interests are released twice a month.

Absolutely. However among entities that must file a report to SEC there is any beneficial owner of greater than 10% of a class of equity securities.

Thanks for your answer. I agree with you that a little hacking could help here.. :-) BTW I like the resource you mentioned. Is it only for commodities or are there also some specific stocks?