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Other than the mark-to-market election (which is too late), does anyone know of other tax strategies to accelerate the deduction? Thank you.

Does anyone know the date of the secondary CMED issue?

Does anyone know when the secondary is scheduled to happen? At what price? Thank you kindly.

I spread GOOG all the time. The best he can get is 10 - debit spread, which was not disclosed (but I suspect its around 5.50)

Can you share the greeks (delta, vega, theta, IV, gamma) at time of purchase and as of today? It should be easy to figure out.

Thank you for your insight Profitaker I'm seeing IV increase the day or so before earnings release in the front month that is not necessarily correlated with further out month. I have been in the money, so my profit has shrunk, i am just wondering if i was in a loss position (which happens...

I have read many articles suggesting that the max at risk when you enter a calendar spread is the initial debit. Prior to expiration, assuming the IV goes through the roof in the near term short position, while IV further out long remains constant, is it possible to lose more that initial debit?

Does anyone have a generic trading business plan they can share or a book to reference?

The funny thing is that on Friday Cramer said on his show that the first thing he does is in the morning is turn on Bloomberg, until he caught himself and laughed, and said I mean CNBC.

CME is another apparently.

Another reason to watch Bloomberg. Mark Haynes was the only reason I watched.

Any thoughts on what the mutual funds will bid up the next 2 weeks to show on their quarterly holdings statement? GOOG is a sure bet IMHO.

Thanks for the heads-up. Your correct, evidently the strike will be reduced by 6 bucks. http://www.optionscentral.com/classes/syllabus_contract_adjustments.jsp

Thank you for your insight. The monthly costs include: Briefing.com $300 IBD $25 Pristine $50 Quotrek $50 I'm not sure if that is way out of wack for his capital size.

Does anyone know when this (AMTD $6.0) will be paid? Also, check out the number of puts being purchased in 06 1st half.

I'm not sure how to interpret your chart but I entered into QCOM JAN 06 45 Calls today based on yesterdays news with Verizon and the pull back today:eek: I hope I won't be hitting myself on the head with a technical analysis text book.

Thank you TruthTeller. I agree with your assessment of additioanal risk. With that being said, I would love an opinion regarding the capital adequacy or inadequacy as it may be (assume for the moment that he can successfully trade the underlying).

I am attempting to advise a new trader that has the following capital and annual goals, that wants to trade at the money equity options (call options and bull spreads). Capital: $12,500 Return goal: 24% or $3,000 annually Following sound money management rules (great threads elsewhere on...

??? Hope they would come down??? I must be confused regarding the payoff of call options.

Good discussion, but my original question was regarding the dates of the "window dressing." Is it 9/30/xx (Quarter end) or 10/31/xx Mutual fund fiscal year end that would lead to the window dressing. I belive mutual funds use annual earnings in their litature. I was assuming the annual...