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i do lot of options trading, but just for this topic strictly, i am basically talking about stocks only. So i meant, shorting the stock in 401k and buying the same in private brokerage. Or shorting is not allowed, perhaps buying declining stock on 401k and shorting on private account.

you got me, astounding by many critics.

my employer plan does allow purchasing any stock

ok, i do understand the capital gain tax, before talking regulator threat, you should talk bout whether it is legal or not or legal loophole. if it is legal, who cares of about whether regulator sees it or now, if not legal obviously i aint gonna attempt it.

Well there are hundreds or thousands of articles on the internet on how earl withdrawal from 401k can cost you$$ due to penalties and taxes which I did not dispute. Now I have been mostly trading stocks in my 401k (as they dont allow options) and mostly traded options in my private brokerage...

well for this, i just messed up big time.

Last two quarter, more precisely during earning season, I got into short term volatility trading with mixed success, well it is pretty much no gain and no pain either. It felt almost like a gamble, mostly betting with straddles. But my major complain is it is to infrequent, only 4 times per...

Damn my spelling. I meant insignificant.

yes one thing i forgot to consider was that it applies ATM or near ATM, once OTM or ITM time value i significant.

is that it? ISBN-13: 978-0132354691

name, isbn?

i understand, i am talking here about time decay, not considering anything else if you will to see if buying at closing vs. opening on same day makes a difference. If time decay DOES make a significant difference, (obviously if it does it will decreased towad end of day making it cheaper to...

i am starting to play more volatility game during earnings. In hte past did mostly played long term. Sort of itching. Now I got a list of all earnings date lined up for companies I wanted to play with and just before earnings day, I buy a put/calls that are expiring soonest to maximimize the...

I found that the options that are bought a year or more in advance called leap and says it is long term investment. I am not sure on either. If I buy options with expiration date Jan 2019 as of today June 13, 2017, is it considered a leap? If so, is it taxed as long term investment if I hold it...

i am a software developer and thinking about what app and/or program would be good for stock. There are lot of apps out there for stock, option quoting and technical analysis. Since I started doing a lot of day - trading for options around earnings period, I got one thing in mind: try to...

Thank you for all great inputs. For the simple investor like me, it will take a while to digest all these information. BABA stock turned out to be a dud, (not much volatility) so it turned out to be good since i was going to straddle.

I was playing volatility game in desperation to get some lost ground lately and had a quite a bit of success last few days. Listed out couple of potential high volatility stocks storted by date. THere were definite tricks i.e. at least one stock had huge gain which I missed due to it is being...

Not at all, however it caught my eye because it concerns about causes I am interested for.

seeing this a lot in recent weeks in facebook advertising. They say they are new kind of financial organization focusing on middle class instead of millionaires: https://www.aspiration.com Anyone has tried with their product and if so what your experience was?

Got severe pullback today with reason being this article. I am not sure if thisguy is blowing smoke or real but nevertheless it might be worth analyzing his 6 reason for nvda pullback http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-stock-pulls-back-as-citron-adds-to-short-interest-2016-12-28