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I am playing TXN instead of QCOM. They are going in the same direction. It seems that as much as the street hates INTC, loves QCOM, AAPL, and TXN. I had 20 naked PUT for Nov 30 for TXN. My price was 1.3 that it went against me up to 2.5 but I stuck to it and now it is going in my favor. I also...

I have been trading stocks and options for 10 years but I have never traded future. I would like to start to trade S&P and NASDAQ futures and Emini. Any good book or online free tutorial?

What do you mean by investing? Daytrading? Investing in what? Does it include mutual fund? Maybe for you Fidelity would be better but for me, IB is far superior than Fidelity. I was getting irritated and heart attack by the rules and order excecution of Fidelity.

Do you mean you're short 62 ctr. 25 Jan06 puts? Yes

A couple of comments: 1- You have the right to open 10 threads on GOOG if you want but why don't you send your message in the other 500 open threads on GOOG:D. It is like 300 threads on Cramer. Someone opens a thread that he hates him and the other person states his opinion that he loves him...

to novel20. I am almost confident but .... anything might happen so you should be prepared. So my suggestion is that if anyone likes my idea, should try to find 4 stocks and split his money into 4 and do it on 4 different stocks because shit happens:)

If you feel really confident about XLNX hitting 25 before expiry, just buy XLNX Nov 20 calls, or even Nov 22.5 calls. Much better reward. Your 40 cents profit doing spread would get eaten up by at least one half due to the bid/ask spread. XLNX was trading around 28 till they came up with a...

A rather safe trade for less than 3 weeks time frame with about 20% gain !! I am heavily invested in XLNX, TXN , and INTC options and don't have more money to trade more but I will do it for 5 contracts tomorrow. I am doing this on XLNX because I am following the stock and I think I know its...

An advice to Multioption: There is no need to say this because you already know that but don't be under pressure to do a trade if you don't feel like it. Just wait. Trading is like fishing, sometimes you have to wait for a long time. Many people lose money because they trade a lot !!. You are...

When your call options are in the money and you have not sold your options till 2 minutes after 4PM EST on Friday of option expiry, you are OBLIGIGATED to buy the stock at the strike price if the strike price is 25 cents over the strike price. If it is between the strike price and strike price...

someone just did 3000+ YHOO Dec 40c @.70 If that was covered, that shows fear and risk reduction but if it was naked, well it is a good risk/reward trade.

Anyone actually traded today? Besides saying keep an eye on that, put that on radar... Anyone did trade today? Who is watching YHOO opening at 36.74 and keep watching it climbing steadily to 38.71? Are you nuts? YHOO moves intraday $2 is rare, and you missed the move? Why would you keep...

I don't have insider information and for a big company like DELL you can not have any insight even if you work there. I think market is trying to go up and DELL bad news was already priced in. As I said before, I agree that is risky but the reward can be good. You can buy Call 27.5 and sell Call...

How about buying DELL Call 30 November? I know it is risky. Less riskier will be Call 27.5

Most techs have been beaten to pulp. They're due for a bounce. Might add PMCS to your list. I don't trade options or stocks for that matter as standard fair, but this thread has perked a few ideas I had in the back of my mind for quite some time now. Has anyone toyed with the idea of playing...

Two good options to play in tech sector: 1- Buy ADI Call November 35. On Tuesday ADI might go under pressure because of DELL and you can take advantage of it. ADI had a mid quarter outlook that raised the estimates. ADI will come up with their numbers on November 15. If you want to keep the...

I believe the first 2 million purchase on Friday saved MSFT ass. Whether it was a big broker(s) or share buyback. It told the market over my dead body that you try to push MSFT down. I don't hold any position on MSFT but I like the company and specially the way Bill Gate is managing it.

It has happened to me in my Fidelity account. It just went down or up enough to trigger my stop loss or stop cover order. My order was not so tight. One dollar range. I have not seen that happen in IB. I think it depends how your broker acts on your order. He can pre-submit your order so no one...

To MacroEvent: I agree with most of what you said but not all. Making 1.2% is much much better than losing money. I know that if you had your money in CD you would make 4% but those mutual funds don't make 1.2% every year. Sometimes they make 40%. If you believe that 1.2% is easy with that...

I think it will go up after that down day . I mean it will be up on Friday :D