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BLOOMBERG NEWS THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Headline Wins over Dow Jones: -- BOJ LOWERS ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT FOR JAPAN -- NEW ZEALAND'S CENTRAL BANK LEAVES KEY INTEREST RATE AT 5.75% -- SAINSBURY 1H PRETAX EX-ITEMS 342M PNDS; ANALYSTS EXPECTED 339M (win over Reuters and Dow) UK COMPANY COVERAGE...

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Here is a time and sales for an option contract.

Buying calls and shorting stock is equivalent to being long puts. Thus, you may want to spare all of the trouble and just buy puts.

But could this strategy also be an electronically generated order?

Ex-dividend date 12/4/2002 Dividend 64 cents

Traded small in JPM today. Totally illiquid. Better off with the underlying stock.

The problem is that the AMEX's policies allow these "games" to happen. Thus, if there is no penalties for pursuing this type of behavior, some specialists will take advantage of the system to their benefit.

Wouldn't know since I trade the NQ instead.

I have been on Susquehanna's upstairs trading floor a few times (their old Philly office and their Bala Cynwyd office). Unlike the stogy typical investment banks, the office appears to be generally younger people just trading different things (like convertibles or ADR arbitrage). Merit...

Even though they claim to be AUTOEX, the specialist still has the right to "freeze" the order before executing it. Thus, he/she can always "change" the quote (fade it) before showing your bid/offer and then say that he/she was changing his/her quote as the order came in.

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Suppose you have $10,000 in your account. XYZ is a $10 stock. The call price is $1 and the put price is $1 (based on put call parity). In the covered write, you will buy 1,000 shares at $10 and then sell 10 calls for $1. Your net debit is $9,000. With the naked put, you will sell 10 puts...

Sometimes you cannot borrow the stock that you want to short. Thus, the synthetic short will allow you to short the stock that you would otherwise not be able to short (although it can be expected that the call and put prices will be priced accordingly to take into account that the stock cannot...

E*Trade Bank appears to be doing well, too, compared to the brokerage part of the business.

You have to be a extremely weathly. Then you can call your investment banker (i.e., Goldman, Lehman, etc.) and have them quote whatever option you want (assuming they even want to make a market in such a thinly traded name).

Make sure that you understand the deliverables for each option (i.e., the CLT options will include C, TAP.A, TAP.B, and cash). Make sure that your broker understands what you are doing before you place the trade. Otherwise, they may treat your margin requirements as naked options (although...

The problem is that the retail margin requirements do not treat the margin for the position as $500 per contract as it should.

Open a DVP account. Then you can trade anywhere (as long as the executing broker has an agreement with your clearing broker).