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Today's activity: Buy: 5 X OCT 135/140 @ 3.9 + $7 comm. stock at 184.7, expected gross profit = 550. Not great timing since it dropped $7 a share later. But the spread price only dropped about 10 cents or so. Screwed up yesterday buying too many...

Today's activity: BUYS: 10 UNG JAN09 40/45 bought 6 spreads @ 3.4 +10.56 commission bought 4 spreads @ 3.35 + 7.04 comm. cost: (6 X 340 + 4 X 335 + 17.6) = 3397.60 stock @ 53.40 expected gross profit...

Friday's activity: sold: 7 FWLT AUG 40/45 @ 4.85 on a GTC order cost was 3.8 gross profit = 735.00 stock price closed friday @ 79.6 Today's activity: SOLD: 5 BTU SEP 35/40 @ 4.85...

todays activity: sold: 3 TDW JUL 40/45 @ 4.87 cost was 3.7 net profit (after commissions in & out) 342.6 5 X OCT 75/80 @ 4.74 cost was 3.7 net profit 506.00 I said I was worried about this position. Tickled to death to close this at...

"return" wrong word? Change "return" for "profit excluding commision".

today's activity: buys (no sells today): all buys are bull call debit spreads unless noted 5 CNX JAN09 65/70 @ 3.7 cost = 1850 + 7 commision expected return 650 STOCK AT 93.96 (at time of buy) 5 SII OCT08 60/65 @ 4.0...

Thanks. I'm using a MacBook right now running "parallel" to emulate Win XP. Works fine at home. Maybe there are some settings on the Mac that are screwing me up. I have an older Win98 laptop that I may lug around with it.

Anyone having trouble connecting laptops to IB's TWS when using commercial wireless vendors away from home? At home, my wireless connections are great, but away from home it's a different ballgame. Something blocks connectivity to get through the login, not always but enough that I have no...

todays activity: COST Net Profit (commisions included) sold: 7 CNX JUL 50/55 @ 4.85 3.8 $744 5 ENER JUN 17.5/20 @ 2.45 2.0 $211...

I'm a retired Electrical Engineer learning to dabble in options. My only claim to fame here is taking a 100k portfolio in Jan 2006 to about 200k now (with no withdrawals so far). My goal to not to lose money, and to make as much as I can. So I selected the most conservative strategy I could...

"Don't spend all day." Right. Spend about a year finding and deciding on a strategy that most suits your personal style and risk tolerance. Make sure it sounds logical to you, and that you understand it very well, and make sure the odds are in your favor on every trade you make. Then spend...

Thanks Dan. Great site. This is why I visit this forum - to pick up the occasion jewel.

Yeah I trade bull call spreads (debit). Actually I probably could find examples by going through my transactions, but frankly it' notworth the time since it is a rare event. I do remember a couple of occasions I closed out spreads early to avoid this mystery outcome.

This is a good question, and I hope someone can answer it for us. This has happened several times to me. I trade spreads, and on occasion I look at my portfolio and see that a position has changed - sometimes the number of contracts stays the same with different symbols, sometimes the number...

IB doesn't charge to modify spread orders. For example to change the number of contracts or the price. They do charge to cancle orders. One can get around that by setting a price that is unreasonable, then the order expires unfilled, with no charge.

Disappearing iPhones? Lots of them sold oversees using different carriers - not ATT. Also the hackers opened up the phone to other carriers. I think the iPhone is still strong.

CFC at 9.65. april $5 calls at $6 (from yahoo site this weekend) buy the stock then sell covered calls at $6 -- net cost $3.65. If stock is above $5 in april, you make $1.35 for investment of 3.65 - 37% return w/small risk. No loss unless stock is below $3.65.

I trade spreads. Occasionally my short calls get exercised early, so suddenly I have to buy some stock. If my margin is sufficient I can easily exercise my long calls when I find out about the early exercise and no harm is done. IB does not provide a way to automatically exerise my long...

I have two types of "secure devices"from IB. One is the electronic card described above with the 8 digit challange number you enter. The other type (for a different smaller account) is called a "passcard"! The passcard (size of a standard credit card) has both sides stamper with numbers...

at least for the nasdaq: http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/BarChartSectors.stm?&lnk=I select your sector to see individual companies and tickers. Would love to find the same thing for NYSE.