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Do you have an account with IB, or are you just talking out of your ass? Thank you all that have an account with IB and confirmed the stock can indeed be shorted.

def or anyone, can you please tell me if this can be done, also what is the margin requirement and maintenance? Thanks!

Well it is ONE of the four reasons: 1) Great earnings report 2) 7 for 1 stock split News 3) 12 Billion buy back 4) Speculation that the 7 for 1 stock split suggests AAPL will be added to the Dow Regarding number 3, AAPL is borrowing against the money held outside the country and buys...

Very interesting read. Can someone please help me with some definitions: "When I quote the components I use ES as an alpha signal, but am really quoting something like AAPL @ one endpoint vs. its quotes at other endpoints." What is alpha signal? What is endpoints? Thanks

Wow, I am posting during the trading day. I need a little break before analyzing new trades, so I decided to gather my thoughts while writing this post since I closed all the options spreads early and traded the underlying instead. All in all it wasn't too bad. I made a profit on the spreads...

Interesting selloff day of the "over-valued" (on a PE multiple basis, I guess) high flyers which represented a challenge worthy of predicting a bounce by Friday expiration, at least once the S&P seem to find a bottom today. I took four positions looking for a rally into Friday. I have...

I trade two accounts with IB, and I am attaching a screen shot of the two accounts Portfolio Analyst Report's page 19 Risk Measures Benchmark Comparison. Can you please review the images and advise on what these numbers mean? More importantly, can you advise moving forward what I should focus...

All right, two weeks of spread trading concluded, and it looks good so far. I understand it is only ten trades, and it is not enough data to devise a complete trading system, but I am confident in testing an increase in the trade size. Attached is the report for trading debit spreads...

Crazy number indeed. you could have bought the ES 1885 call for 0.05 or 0.10 just before the halt. It settled at 8.30. So if you put $1000, you walk away with a cool $83,000-$166,000. The 1890 went to 3.30. Both contracts (1885 and 1890) last trade is 0.05. Someone scored huge. Heck, I...

Options Spread Closed Trades and Open Positions.

Greetings Elite Traders! I am starting this thread because I am trying to integrate options spreads into my trading system. I already started a journal thread that will cover my trading results (all asset classes). However, I want to discuss with the options traders here strategies that can...

3/14/2014 Trades

3/14/2014 Account Value

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3/11/2014

Really busy week at work, no time to post. I did a quick capture of account values for the week and will post in the following posts. 3/10/2014

When was the last time you held two stocks, in two different sectors, (one priced over $6, and the other priced over $11.00) that were up more than 10% intraday, and went down as much as 50% and 48.8% from the high of the day or 46.2% and 44.2% from yesterday's close. Well, I was fortunate...

Thanks, I really appreciate your honest feedback. I don't know what XTF is. I did not get a result on Yahoo Finance. Can you please explain? Thanks again!

What a day for PLUG!!! When I put on the $6/$8 bull call spread last Wed, PLUG was trading in a range of $6.35 and $6.60, and I thought it had a 38% chance of trading above $8 by expiration. Friday it went to $8.30+ and today it was as high as 11.41 before closing at 10.33 (last trade I show...