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No way to trade US options afterhours. Only possible way would be to do something in the OTC market.

Sorry but stops don't work when you have positions that are much BIGGER than the market can handle because of illiquidity.

SMH is a Merrill Lynch HOLDR and will not get rebalanced.

http://www.aboutschwab.com/press/press-release.cgi?release_id=796158

Because the preferred stock was called, the smybol may have changed. AMH pr cl?

Steve is right. Once when the registration is declared "effective" by the SEC it is free to trade.

In general, option volatility spiked upwards. Short option positions hurt (including short out of the money calls).

Probably put this trade on as a conversion. Not too hard to get size done this way. Short 425,000 shares Now sold all long stock and is net short 125,000 shares Wait for panic and crash to end or option expiration Calls expire worthless What happens if there is no panic or crash...

Once again there is no sure thing in risk arbitrage. Maybe the buyout consortium cannot get financing at acceptable terms. Maybe the FCC blocks the deal. You also have to factor in the time value of money. etc. etc. etc.

$36.25 not $36.75 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Represents Investor Group Including Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Saban Capital Group, Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners in Acquisition of Univision for $13.4 Billion Tuesday June 27, 11:58 am ET NEW YORK...

I think spread trader only works for the related stocks and SSFs. For example, with IBM it will only show IBM versus the SSF and IBM SSFs versus other SSFs. I think mats is looking for something that can pair two stocks like buy 1 share INTC short 1 share AMD at a xxx spread.

Sorry, but we are talking about Ron Ianieri and not Ron Insana.

How about this one. After trading day 1 the underlying stock had a 2 for 1 stock split. Open interest doubles. Share price is halved. There was also exercise activity at the end of day 1.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/option_exercise_disclosure.pdf

That is what they said with GTK. See what happened last week. How about SCHS last year. The deal fell apart the week before the deal was supposed to close. How about MOSY in 2004. The deal looked great, but then there was a patent infringement lawsuit and SNPS walked away. I am not...

There is always risk in any trade. What happens if ATYT and/or AMD cooked their books? What happens if the regulators block the deal? What happens if you cannot borrow AMD and get squeezed? What happens if ATYT and AMD changes the form of consideration? Etc., etc., etc.

Lottery firm under suspicion State investigators say Gtech lied during background probe 11:55 AM CDT on Thursday, July 20, 2006 By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – State police on Tuesday accused lottery operator Gtech of lying to investigators during a probe of...

Here is another one........ ************************************************ SEC Investigating Possible Insider Trading In Kerr-McGee Deal POSTED: 4:38 pm CDT July 13, 2006 UPDATED: 4:56 pm CDT July 13, 2006 DENVER -- Federal regulators have requested information from Anadarko...

A lot of leaking going on...... *********************************************** July 19, 2006, 2:03PM SEC Wins Freeze in Petco Trading Case © 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday won an order freezing an estimated $862,000 in profits that may...

Maybe it is the AMEX specialist screwing up the markets on various ETFs.