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    How's real estate market in your area?

    Just got back from the realtor's office. He told me the the stats for my area (Sierra foothills near Sacramento) for July. The month started with 1600 homes for sale. One hundred sold (or at least went into escrow). That would make a 16 month inventory if nothing changed. However 300 new...
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    Which Greek will win?

    I'm looking to roll my OIH Aug 135 short calls to Sep, it's one leg of a calendar spread. OIH is up almost 2% to just below 140. Here are the Greeks given by TOS: Aug: delta: 0.86 gamma: 0.05 theta: [0.16-0.20] Sep: delta: 0.66 gamma: 0.03 theta: 0.10 The Aug is up...
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    Tired of reading

    Yeah, he's got his retirement "locked up" if you know what I mean. Heheh.
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    KEY West//Florida Keys real estate market??

    Didn't the insurance companies decide to withdraw hurricane coverage? That should bring prices down a bit.
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    KEY West//Florida Keys real estate market??

    Try realtor.com. Also remember, Google is your friend.
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    My 1st Real $ Calendar Spreads: smart? dumb? opinions?...

    If your long leg is a few months out and you plan to roll the short a few times then would you be OK if the stock went up for the call version and vice versa for the puts? Even if they went ITM then you would get more premium on the new short when you roll.
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    Expirations Week plays

    OIH 135 puts are 2.25 and calls are 2.15. OIH closed at 134.89. NEW 40 puts are .50. NEW closed at 41.11. I'm not going to trade these, but they are kind of tempting.
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    Reverse Calendars

    IV, are you calling a market bottom here?
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    Gordon Gekko

    "making false statements" == lying.
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    Gordon Gekko

    But lying about trading on insider info is a crime - just ask Martha Stewart. Bud wasn't an officer of the airline at the time. His father was a union boss and knew about a favorable government ruling that was about to be announced. BTW is that really insider info? I think Bud's father was...
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    Best currency to hold right now?

    Interesting.
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    Where did the term long and short a stock come from?

    From the Wiki on Short selling: The term "short" was in use from at least the mid-19th century. It is commonly understood that "short" is used because the short seller is in a deficit position with his brokerage house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_selling
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    Being Assigned after expiration...HELP!

    Seems like you can leave yourself wide open for a "gap" on the SET. Can the OP have put in an order to close the position at Thursday's market close?
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    I am new

    I've heard you can call or email them and ask for better rates (like no ticket charge on 10 or more contracts), but I haven't tried. BTW they only charge one ticket for multileg trades.
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    I am new

    Or use ThinkOrSwim - no ticket charge for under 10 contracts, just $2.95 per contract. I think there are one or two others but I don't recall at the moment.
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    I can Steal your Edge, I am serious

    And I just stole your mojo. -- Dr. Evil
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    The good news is the boomers won't tank the stock market

    Got this from the Yahoo Finance page: http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/business/8167 BEST COLUMNS OF THE DAY Boomers won't sink stocks Don't listen to the doomsayers, says Robert Powell in MarketWatch.com. The stock market won't crash as 77 million baby boomers retire over...
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    Market will close down today

    Red is red. Good call.
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    Market will close down today

    Red now. Still 2+ hours to close. My DIA puts are looking better.
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    I am new

    John, I'm sure you heard the KCI news by now. I hope you got out completely.
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