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if I wanted to take this play on Japanese Interest Swaps? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-13/japan-will-be-forced-to-default-greek-economy-done-hayman-s-bass-says.html

for those of you who use IB, like myself, I was wondering what tax filing software or online service is very easy to import IB Schedule D information to? I had previously use TaxACT online, but this doesn't allow me to import from anything except gainskeeper, which obviously IB doesn't...

ya, actually i went heavier with NOV calls, and lost everything ... but held some DEC (what i meant), so hopefully i will end up making money, but have t o wait till Friday ... some people on the LDK board got DEC calls last week when the stock price was $26, they made 2-3000% profit ... i...

LDK options payday today. Consider this, when LDK was at $26 last week, NOV 70's were going for abuot .1 finally this one payed off http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LDK

if you are truly interested, reread the press releases from today and I'll answer any questions that may be remaining. I know the end results will be good, but my November window is ticking everyday ... i am moving to december now, and trying to partially liquidate Nov at cost or better in...

hope so, there is talk that the audit is done, complete and clean ... but the legal team is going overkill to prepare everything 100% perfect before they release, and they might delay earnings/audit report for this, in which case they might miss my NOV 16 calls sadly, and the december calls are...

wow, that is correct, so margin req' is 156% the value you sold the naked PUT at. Thats seems pretty hefty ... I'll defenitely play CALLS long on this trade, but now that I understand naked short puts, I can think of a few situations I might wanna use them on.

ahh, ok so for PUTS, its the amount less than the strike and for CALLS, amount greater than the strike

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ok, thanks ill try that and make sure not to click transmit :)

thanks again for replying, well my first posts were me confused trying to figure out what is going on. Since then I hope I have come closer to understanding what is going on. Trust me, I haven't dared to even touch this on my real account since I am learning from the posts in the thread. I...

optionscoach, as i posted earlier its clear your broker has different requirements than mine, also your example does not make sense spindr0, you were the one who posted earlier that also, commiebat said CALLS/PUTS (options in general) are not marginable securities, but stocks...

Hi optionscoach, thanks for your continued help. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/margin.php?p=ssf&ib_entity=llc So my broker has a (1)20% margin requirement. So, I could sell up to $5000 in puts ($5000 x 20% = $1000). Is that ok? Oh, I am basing...

thats interesting, since say i do run off Reg T margin, lets take this hypothetical: My account has $1000 cash (thats all) .. now, say I sell $5000 worth of naked PUTS (this will be my max since PUT + 20% is $1000). Now I have $5000 + $1000 cash (note the original $1000 is taken up in...

oh i see. Since CALLS are not marginable, then I couldn't use them with my PUT money i have. However, I theoretically could use that money to buy long stock as well, so i could use 80% of my proceeds to buy long stock (keep the 20% to cover the margin requirements)

thanks for the reply spindr0, I may be confused on something then. If I am truly bullish, could I sell PUTS to increase my cash availability to buy more CALLS? My previous thinking was that money had to be used for both pretty similarly, so it was a pick or choose decision based on your...

absolutely, its the same things as 'writing a call/put' the charts are a little reversed, limited gain, and most possible loss

nice tip, that makes good sense. I think if im truly bullish ill go CALLS for my situation

if you are bullish on an option, you have 2 options i see. 1) Long Call (deducted from cash, no margin requirements) 2) Short Naked Put (credited to cash, margin requirement 100% + 20% value) so, if I am correct, is there a slight advantage to buying Long Calls over option 2, since...

Mike, go ahead and call LDK headquarters in China if you speak Mandarin. Its not illegal information, and its not written down, but I heard from a trusted source that the audit is done, and shows no problems with inventory at all as Situ claimed. LDK's legal team right now is processing...