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I bidded for 300 shares, I got allocated 100.. so the demand for shares is at LEAST double what was issued. The IPO price is $30.01

I traded vix options once, got burnt on slippage and it moving against me. I'll write puts again only if it goes under 12.

I want to get a hardware RAID 1 / 10 / 1E controller. I'm probably going to get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131003 I might go w/ a single array instead of 2 arrays, either 4X 150GB 10K RPM drives on RAID 1E, or 4X 500GB drives on RAID 5. The drives...

Dunno, for some reason I was expecting the symbol to be BLO or something.

uh, the people who bought the nymex IPO made 100% at open. The only reason for the massive spike to 150 is because of all the market orders dumped onto the market. Of course if you buy at the peak like that you're an idiot, but the IPO buyers were not. And GOOG went way above it's first...

If you want to be a flipper, go ahead and flip until they block your account from getting new IPOs, close it, and open a new account.

I never looked, I just assumed I didn't have it. Then I realized how much the sound effects on CNBC irritated me. BTW, the stream on bloomberg.com is delayed by like 20 seconds.

I'm going to get the BFG Nvidia 8800 w/ 640MB of RAM, it's only $440 so it's not a big deal. Plus I can play games on it if I want, so it gives me that option.

Do you have AIM or something and have some time to talk about it? I'd appreciate it :)

I been thinking about building my own to save some money. First off.. tell me if what I want is realisitic for the budget: - Middle of the line dual core CPU (Don't want to spend 1K for just the CPU) - 4 GB RAM - 2X 50 - 100 MB 10K RPM Hard drives RAID 0 - 2X 500 MB 7200 RPM hard drives...

To start off, I think what you're doing is illegal w/o licensing, not sure though. Couple issues first: 1. If you blow out their account, they could possibly sue you, or even worse, claim to the broker that they didn't make the transactions and demand their money back (which will trace the...

Yeah.. If a position moves against you 10%. Ask yourself, were you wrong for taking it? If the answer is no, then you probably don't have the right mindset for trading. Because that big of a move against you means you were wrong. Some people have the worst ways for justifying losing positions.

I don't bother writing options if there's an immediate assignment risk. I just got assigned today on short 6 may puts on SUNW (bad play). And SUNW isn't THAT deep ITM, only around 18% for a stock that may be fairly volatile. I also got assigned on my yhoo 30 puts immediately after they...

Bloomberg is channel 353. The channel symbol is "BTV" I had some difficulty finding this myself. Never again will I watch that CNBC crap.

Gotta be careful with that though.. An indication that a ton of people think it's going to gap up that much is an indication that there's going to be a ton of flippers. There is no doubt that the IBKR IPO has a ton of hype behind it.

That would reduce your profit if the stock tanks to 40.

IF a higher offer does come in, there's going to be a ton of naive people who are going to get hit with margin calls. The people who think $60 is the absolutely the max the stock is going to go to. Options are the way to go with this fire. As another poster said, stop losses are useless...

You should ask IB to look into this for you. I doubt they'd make you fork up margin requirements for both sides of a condor spread.

If I were him I would've kept that model a secret, and just traded mispriced options. Make a lot more that way.

If you're doing 100 shares who's going to give a crap? I think they only go after you if you're doing one of those pump and dump schemes.