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NYX made it onto the SHO list on Friday.

The WSJ article I saw on page A1 and A5 was about how it looks like some companies are backdating options granted to a company's executives so that they occur just before a big rally. I didn't see anything about stock price behavior on monthly option expiration days.

I got the impression that the rationale for the PDT rule was that BDs were taking on risk by extending margin credit intraday but they were getting very little in return (i.e. interest on margin loans) because the small day traders were in general flat at the end of each day. Above a certain...

I really dislike haggling. If I generally do about 100 10-lot trades per month, would they give me as good a price as IB's standard rate, or would I have to "negotiate" over time to get the price down to that level?

To paraphrase another saying, the nice thing about class action suits is that there are so many of them. Google said they settled the suit because it was a small price to pay. Presumably they hoped this would end all the click fraud lawsuits. But the lawyers currently suing them in...

None of those are criminal offenses, though. In particular, if you have an IT problem that prevents you from updating your web site, you have a lot of pissed shareholders but it doesn't land you in jail. But if you think he was cooking the books like Enron and Worldcom, that would be criminal.

Why would they arrest "the Patrick Byrnes"? Did he do anything criminal?

Well, OK. I knew that GE owned NBC (and CNBC), but I've always heard CNBC refer to DJ as their "partner", never their "parent".

We've almost arrived at two points that I'd like to see discussed, if people are willing: 1) Is there anything that is inherently immoral, or is all morality a societal construct? 2) Is it acceptable or unacceptable that the majority of a society (or the government elected by the majority)...

In some cases, the companies he's pumping have already been mentioned that day on his radio show or on RealMoney. It also seems that the callers they get during the first segment, which always appear to be apropos to the stock or sector he just pumped, are recruited from RealMoney readers...

Are you sure GE owns DJ? DJ is a public company, and articles about GE in the WSJ and Marketwatch don't contain any disclaimers about it having any ownership stake.

An explanation of how cash accounts in general interact with day trading is http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/LegalInt/MarginRequirements/2003/20030512/.

What's the name of that business card software, so we can avoid it? Very rare to have shrink-wrapped software come with viruses. Heard of one case in the 90's where the CD duplication/packaging company had a virus on their mastering equipment.

Keep in mind that tying up $37800 for 2 weeks means you'll either be forgoing $72 (if you're using cash that would otherwise be getting 5% interest) or paying up to $145 (if your broker's margin rate is 10%).

The futures are still falling, down 3 from the close. More or less a straight line (constant slope), starting at 3PM.

Is there add-on charting software that will work with IB TWS's backfill that will suck in intraday bid & ask data for an option and its underlying stock and graph the option's IV?

Thanks. I understand the later contracts will generally cost more, but what I was wondering was: why does the difference vary so much on an intraday basis? On that day, the difference between the March and April contracts (I was comparing bids to bids, and generally the bid-ask spreads were...

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I've noticed that occasionally XLE and OIH move up and down in a very tight range, e.g. from 11:04 to 11:10 this morning, XLE was going up and down around .09, and OIH doing the same by about .22, with periods of around 65 seconds. Does anyone try to scalp OIH when it does this? 20 cents on a...