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How low will the Dow have to get before he gets back on the blow?

mark trader, you might want to check out these Yahoo groups for ideas and advice: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/OptionClub/ http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ConservativeOptionStrategies/ There is a guy, Dr Joe (AKA gass20) who has been doing diagonal LEAPS spreads for a...

Why do you bother to post?

Someone developed a car powered by compressed air. Google it yourself if you are interested.

BTW, I tried to delete thread this but couldn't. If an admin sees this please delete.

(Sorry if this has already been posted, I missed it if it has.) I just ran across a paper published by UMASS professors H. Kazemi and E. Szado about "Collaring the Cube (i.e. QQQ)". They discovered that a collar consisting of a six month long put and a series of one month short calls...

moved to Monkey Calendar thread.

Another correction. Most of us didn't vote for Bush. I believe the number of people who voted was less than 60% of the total who could have voted, and Gore got 500,000 more votes than Bush in 2000. As for the rest of your comment, I have trouble understanding that myself. For example, my...

Like I said on the short oil thread, I've got it collared. I almost pulled the trigger today to roll my 30 puts to 26 and buy more stock.

Thanks, I'll take a look. Not an ETF though.

I sold SJT recently due to poor outlook on its royalty (before it shot up about 7 pts). Is there a good ETF for US natural gas that pays a good divvy (or royalty without having to pay a lot of taxes in various states)?

I've got a collar on DUG as a stock accumulation play, not a straight option play. I am hoping it goes down for a while longer, then heads up. I was thinking about doing the same on DIG (opposite of DUG - ultra long oil companies), but the share price is in the 100's.

I saw 5 classic Citroens today. How should I interpret that?

Agreed. Now is not the time to buy. Wait at least a year, probably longer.

Hindsight is 20/20. What can you move to today to make those kinds of returns?

So you're saying it's different this time?

If I remember correctly, the OCC assigns to the brokers, who then decide how and who to dole them out.

No, I would be going for the interest, and using a small part of it to buy far OTM puts. I haven't had the time to look up any specific examples yet. Maybe by next week. I guess if you were bearish on a company you could use all of the interest to buy more puts that are closet to ATM. I think...

There are a few high yield bonds out there, but in this environment a real risk is that the issuer might go tits up. Has anyone considered or tried a strategy where you buy a bond and use part of the interest to buy puts on the company? You could figure that if a well known company defaults...

Does anyone know how to show option premium adjustments on the Sched D? Let's say you sold a put for 1.00 and strike price 10.00, and let it be assigned. Later you sold the stock for 20.00. So your cost basis is 1000 and proceeds are 2000+100. My 1099-B shows proceeds as 2000, but the...