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As of 12/31/2008, AAPL was the biggest component of the NDX. Just shy of 10% of the index. http://www.cboe.com/products/IndexComponents.aspx?DIR=OPIndexComp&FILE=nas100.doc

Remember what happened last year during MLK Day? That French guy blew up.

Vol, it is only rounding error! You still get the gold medal.:)

Actually this is a great use of resources from IB's perspective: "Interactive Brokers will be given the right to use the Student's submission, including all intellectual property contained therein, for any and all purposes."...

Meanwhile B1S2 is sitting on the beach relaxing (this is all noise to him)!:)

You sent in an election to choose cash over stock. The shares are sent and held by the agent. If you want to sell your shares that you bought, you would have to cancel your election. Then you will get your stock back. Then you can sell it. Sorry, no free lunch.

The CME has end of month options on the S&P 500. It is European style. The in-the-money/out-of-the money threshold is determined by the VWAP for 30 seconds. If you notice that this fixing price was above 900. Thus, 900 strike puts and below went our worthless. If you can look at times and...

LC, Good call. They kept the S&P 500 above 900 before the market closed. http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/SandP-EOM-options-fixing-price.html

DMartin, Great job.

The short ZB holder has the right to choose which Treasury Security (based on the CME parameters) to deliver to the long ZB holder. There is something called "Cheapest to Deliver" (CTD). The big boys will figure out which Treasury security is the CTD and will deliver that security. A bond...

AAPL getting hit on a Steve Jobs' rumor. May take the NQ down.

ORCL is also helping, too.

Special dividend paid on closing. About 24.9 cents

Electronically

There is a possibility that the ETF has not opened on the "primary market" yet. Thus, your stop may not be executed until the ETF begins trading on the "primary market".

Makes you wonder if there is an option position that needs to be hedged at that level (all the dealers are buying at that level to continue being delta neutral).

http://www.optionsclearing.com/market/infomemos/2008/dec/25198.pdf

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adLrsq9KMJL8&refer=home Treasury Sells $30 Billion of Four-Week Bills at Zero Percent By Cordell Eddings and Daniel Kruger Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Treasury sold $30 billion of four-week bills at zero percent for the first time...

Thanks to HPQ

The trouble with this is that sending an order directly to an exchange will increased your commissions to 1.75 per option contract compared with 0.70 via SMART.