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Well, I think there is a lot of uncertainty about the banks and every news is a piece of the puzzle. I think if some banks are nationalized and others bolstered additionally that provide some clarity and be beneficial for the financial stocks as a whole. We'll see, I guess

How would nationalization of some banks affect the XLF? I have been trying to figure that out. Some of them are obvious candidates BAC,C. Their prices are already pretty low so there won't be a big negative impact. I have been listening to Geitner and Bernanke and both are saying that...

What equity goes up 17%, yet the value of its put options also increases (for some of them more than 17%)? (and the value of the deep out of the money puts increases across the board) It happened today

I guess, it's all about the price. By not selling at different levels, the sellers (whoever they are) are not creating a massive drop in the price and get better average price (by not creating panic). I am not sure that doing it all in one day was optimal, but I guess they really had to go.

Well, I stayed in the last couple of days. My thinking was that there has to be some pent up demand if the price kept bouncing up to 20.50, plus Goldman Sachs was up 15% that day and both GS and JPM are considered to be similar companies. It's up close to 20% the last two days (might or...

I have been reading this forum for a while and have learned qiute a bit. Quick question to old timers (or to people that have seen a lot) Take a look at the intraday chart of JPM today (2/24). Especially in the afternoon it really seemed like somebody is trying to hold the price below...