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    NVDA, AMD traders or other growth traders, are you expecting severe pullback just after new year?

    hell, if it goes 1000$ i'd be a millionary. yes nvidia is in sweep stop no question about it, and with huge gains I amassed last few weeks, I can only wish it will go up furhter. I have looked at their last earning report and all of their BU-s were in green meaning they have expanded. I am just...
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    NVDA, AMD traders or other growth traders, are you expecting severe pullback just after new year?

    Yes nvidia is in fantastic position but their stock has risen like crazy. right now they are like 40Billion valuation.
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    NVDA, AMD traders or other growth traders, are you expecting severe pullback just after new year?

    Yes I think they are technically not sound at all, but sentiment is big in invesment an lot of hope in their near future at least, their zen architected CPU-s going to compute (although there are sign and rumors they 8-core latest CPU will compete for same spot with Intel's 4 core CPU-s, if that...
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    NVDA, AMD traders or other growth traders, are you expecting severe pullback just after new year?

    end of year is approaching, i think NVDA, AMD holders got serious to insanea gain last few weeks, mine ranged about 150%-300% now I am thinking how to insure this gain. My sense is that lot of holders of this company's and other fast growing companies' options is going to wait until new year and...
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    Experienced option traders, did you run into situation not being able to sell your options?

    Could you explain bit more elaborative on the technicals on this one? I am relatively noob on this one.
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    Experienced option traders, did you run into situation not being able to sell your options?

    I would not necessarily target year end just suitable moment to sell it out.
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    Experienced option traders, did you run into situation not being able to sell your options?

    For that close price or not, I would not worry too terribly, just look at the ask/bid price (specifically bid) gap to see what I will get. However if there is no bid offer at the time of trading that could be tricky I think.
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    Experienced option traders, did you run into situation not being able to sell your options?

    I am holding certain amount of options for long term, in the past I always held it for average of few days or weeks. But for this time, I am running an experiment where I am holding it for more than a year or so. Now what I notice is that once the stock price moves so far off from strike price...
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    Can trading options be considered investing?

    reviving early topics, good points. I think if you hold large amount of stock (or even small to moderate amount) for long position for extended period of time, it is definitely fits the definition of "investing.". For options, I also started to wonder, whether when you hold onto the long call...
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    How will either presidential candidate affect stock market?

    Today's market was shaprly lower because "investors" were concerned about the outcome of election. Which made me wondering which of the president will affect the stock market in what way and how? Any thoughts on this? Or any indie articles? Thanks!
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    when is the option available for just ipo-d company

    Nutanix enterprise software company just IPO-d today and shoot up > 100%. I am wondering when becomes OPTIONS available or how long after company ipo-d the options starting become available? I dont feel easy just buying their stock. Thanks!
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    what is with FATCA?

    Looks like two ball droppers here, I did not ask you to elobate about what FATCA is and nor I asked about FBAR. Anyone else knows about the lower thresholds for reporting? According to this IRS, person needs to have 50,000$ in account. I have barely 7,000$. Not sure why they are sending this to...
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    what is with FATCA?

    Hi I have received the notes from the bank account in my home country where I had to file out this FATCA, w-8 forum based on my US citizenship. What is the purpose of this form? I only used to store the few thousand bucks and I reported my income and pay tax. Does government want to tax my...
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    complete noob question, how to trade oil futures

    Hello all, I have done only stock and options trading, but after lot of dropping of oil futures with headlines last few months, it appears the price of oil has bottomed out. I would like to ride some gain if there is any. One thing is to buy dilapidated stocks of oil company however i am also...
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    have trouble understanding FATCA foreign account tax compliance act

    Here is the definition from wikipedia: The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a United States federal law that requires United States persons, including individuals who live outside the United States, to report their financial accounts held outside of the United States, and requires...
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    jan 17, 2015 option about to expire

    i am not familiar with this strategy but i am going to see if it works for me. looks like some learning curve needed. if all does not work, i just roll the loss to next year.
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    jan 17, 2015 option about to expire

    i did there is nothing thye can do if no bidders for that particular option.
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    how will the prime rate will fare in the next years

    I have a modest condo in super expensive bay area with fixed 30-year loan. Since its valuation went up since i bought, I decided to tap and get a 15year home equity loan. I am working with 3 diffeerent vendors to select from but one of them are only offering at variable rate with prime rate+1%...
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    jan 17, 2015 option about to expire

    That sounds good. I am sure market order did not work and order can be valid only for a day and expires after today's date. I actually found that bid is 0.00 x0 and ask is 0.05 x32. That means no one is asking to buy at even 0.00$ :( isn it? Anyways I tried to do a limit order at 0.01 but...
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    jan 17, 2015 option about to expire

    I bought an option about an year ago for Jan 17, 2015 as expiration date at 10$ strike. However stock is almost worthless as of now costing only 0.05$ therefore it is most certainly be a completely loss of options by the expiration date. However I have tried to sell back at a market rate however...
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