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Anyone read the memo they put out on the website about the outage a couple of weeks ago? What a joke..

So then take a trial to traders audio, its free and they don't even ask for a credit card number.

I've thought about this many times over, but why does the holder of the ITM call exercise instead of buying stock outright? In regards to daddy's post, in the extreme cases of this that I have seen, puts covering downside losses were inexpensive. Take a case that I saw not to long ago...

Create a new partition and just put it on that. Its nice being able to choose XP or Vista depending on what task i'm working on.

Got my copy of Vista Business in the mail last week, and I must say I am impressed. I didn't try out any of the betas so I can't really speak from where it has come, but its running like a champ on my laptop and I didn't need to install any drivers at all. That being said, i'm not...

Scottrade has a live customizable ticker with their java platform.

Man Rich, when you say print out, you really mean print out. :) If you are just trying to get a "capture" of the current Yahoo top gainers page, you could just "print" a PDF of them. http://www.cutepdf.com/ ^^ Freeware PDF writer Also, I'm assuming exchanges that the stocks are...

I'm just speculating, but perhaps because of commissions? I.e. , OP is paying $42 in, $42 out @ Scottrade, for a commission of $84 each day. Perhaps he could shed some light on this?

OK, gotcha. Thanks for the heads up. Since you have concluded that most $5 stocks are duds, do you still play them to make the system consistent or do you skip them?

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/poteshma/WorkingPapers/UnusualOptionActivityAndTerroristAttacks10March2004.pdf

Gotcha. Do you have a floor as to how low the price of the stocks are? For example say X stock is @ $50 Y stock @ $5 Rules say buy 1000 shares of $50 stock. Another $1 pop is not unreasonable in a stock that is $50, so you make $1000 Y stock on the other hand, you bought 1000...

Scottrade any many brokers have this on their interfaces, so no need to go to yahoo if you don't want to. I just prefer real time data as opposed to yahoo, which is delayed. Just a suggestion..

Obvious misplace of the decimal. I'm assuming the trade was busted.

If you are serious about options, I think TOS is best, I however only do a handful of option trades a month.. I also like the software that they have. One thing that you might want to note is the $40/month rebate from TOS if you do 40 trades.

Yeah, not a bad deal at all at optionhouse if you do volume.

This belongs in the journals section..

I traded the Dec mini dow after rollover to the March contract. I bought at the market, and had Mar quotes up on my screen, even though I had placed the order for Dec contract. I could not figure out for the life of me why my fill was 100 pts lower than the current market.. I was relieved...

I have no idea, however take these scenarios. Lets assume the stock is going to move $3.40 either way after earnings (The estimated cost of buying a $30 Feb straddle on 1/22 @ 1 PM ) Option A 10K of calls traded at 1:00 PM - 1:03 PM EST. I'm assuming this is what he was referring to...

I always get fills like this whenever I use Scottrade (which is rare) . For example, got a fill on a buy today at 13.4299 . For what it matters, I used a limit at $13.43 which was the current ask.

Can you post the prices you were filled at on the straddles? Just curious.