Not sure if this will format right, but if you email me I can email you back with the word document I typed it in. Thanks for any help.\nMy questions would be, using the info below is I wanted to “call” the first one I would basically pay $250 + Commission and if by the 3rd Friday in May this stock hit $35 I would be “In the money”. But say May 2nd the price jumped to $38, Could I “exercise” then, if so how? If it was $35.01 how much would I have made? \n\nNow another quagmire, The 5th one down is May 06 30, is that saying that you think the stock is going down to below $30? \n\nBuy 1 MAY06 35 Call@ 0.25 \n31.34$25.00Unlimited$-25.0014.35%1.3 to 13016\nBuy 1 JUN06 35 Call@ 0.40 \n31.34$40.00Unlimited$-40.0022.05%2.3 to 15865\nBuy 1 SEP06 35 Call@ 1.05 \n31.34$105.00Unlimited$-105.0030.54%2.7 to 11492\nBuy 1 APR06 30 Call@ 1.55 \n31.34$155.00Unlimited$-155.0041.47%0.6 to 1230\nBuy 1 MAY06 30 Call@ 2.05 \n31.34$205.00Unlimited$-205.0043.24%1.3 to 1300
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If the strike price is $35.00 your breakeven point would be $37.50 + commission. \n\n@ $38.00 you would make $50 - comission. \n\n*i'm assuming you bought 1 contract, in other words you paid 2.50 per share for a total of 100 share option.
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Why in the world would you ask a bunch of idiots on Yahoo answers financial advice?  You need to research this yourself or talk to someone who has a license to advise you.\n\nBesides, what stock are you even referring to?
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I've used the "Cheap Investor" off and on for over ten years.  His record is good. Like all "Penny Stocks" you can lose significant dollars.\n\nRule #1 - #97;\nNever take stock tips (especially on Penny Stocks).  Most "tips" turn out very bad, very quickly. Do your own research (thorough).\n\nRule #98;\nHave an "asset allocation" that you're at ease with. Limit your total portfolio allocation to "Penny Stocks" to between 1% - 3% of your total invested funds.\n\nGood luck!
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I'm not sure what you are asking for, but I'll tell you the meaning of the options.\nLet's use as an option example Yahoo Strike 30 March and say trading at $.65 an option and you are going to buy/sell one contract\n\nBuy to open- Buy to open is to buy this option and for 1 contract you would pay $65 and $8 transaction fee. \n\nSell To Close- You can not do this first, you need to own and option first. So, if you bought the yahoo option and it is now worth $.9 You would sell it and make $90 $-8 transaction fee.\n\nNow what I think you are interested in is the opposite\n\nSell to open- means that you sell this option and you will recieve $65 in your account - transaction fee and you could do whatever you want with your money.\n\nBuy to close is simply to buy back your option. If you think the option will expire worthless and do not want to buyback, then you may not need to do this action. \n\nHope I was some help.\n\nALSO VERY IMPORTANT. If you have sold more than one option contract and it is likely to be exercised, buy back the option. Because buy back is only $7 +1.25(per contract) per transaction, but getting exercised is $8 per contract.
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Check for solid fudementals, (is the company making money, does it have low debt, are sales increasing, etc.) and Technical indicators that are telling you the stock is going up, ie: price, MACD, Chaikin Money Flow, stochastics, etc.  \n\nStart with Investors.com, the site has a Stock Checkup, a great tool for checking fundamentals on any stock. \n\nFor a more detailed study of Technical Analysis go to StockCharts.com, pay particular attention to the Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Volume, RSI, the MACD (Mac-D), The Williams %er, Stochastics, and the Chaikin Money Flow.  \n\nThen check out StockTA.com, it is also an excellent Technical Analysis site, with charted Fibonacci resistance and support lines and will tell you if the stock is bullish or bearish in the short, medium and long run.  The site also has an extensive Candle Pattern Glossary and a fantastic technical screener. \n\nThe above sites do have premium services, but all the services I mentioned are free.  I've been using Elliot Wave and Fibonacci's to help refine my in and out points.  StockCharts.com's "ZigZag" overlay helps me plot and count the waves and that helps determine where I am in the overall pattern. \n\nBasically I find interesting stocks through the screens on Investors.com or StockTA.com, run them through the Stock Checkup at Investors.com, if they measure up I'll run them through the Analyisis & Fib Analysis at StockTA.com and do an extensive chart study at StockCharts.com, examining the 2 yr, 1 yr, 6 mth, 3 mth, 1 mth & 5 day.  I'll also do my due dilligence, studying the profile, key statistics, headlines, etc. through Yahoo Finance and web searches.  If it all measures up and the stock is in a base or in a pull back and it's starting a wave 1 or wave 3, it's time to buy. \n\nSo, to sum it up; you're looking for solid fundamental indicators, and Technical indicators that tell you that the stock is bullish (going up).\n\nI heartily recomend studying the How To Invest section of Investors.com, the Chart School at StockCharts.com, and the School at StockTA.com to further your investment education.\n\nRemember, when investing always protect your downside with a stop loss or a trailing stop loss.  \n\nGood luck, hope it helps.
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well one month is a very short term u r looking at \nat this juncture as of yesterdays close the mkt seems to be correcting so if u wnna enter some stocks enter biggiwes \ndont go in for sugar stocks and banks \nmay be IT will help but thats also run up a lot. \nbe a long term insvestor and enjoy
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With respect to the market in general, there's been a good-sized pullback from May to the current period.  Those stocks which have suffered most are the ones which have had the largest amount of growth (precious metals, emerging markets, etc.).  Many funds not only lost all of their gains Jan-Apr, but many actually dipped into negative YTD territory.\n\nSo you have to ask yourself: is this money you have in Fidelity on a permanent downward trend or an overdue correction?  Are your losses due to the possibility that your investments at Fidelity were focused on the highest growth (and therefore most volatile and overdue for correction) funds?  What are the long-term performance records of the funds you've chosen (4 months is a drop in the bucket of time)?\n\nBasically, you can't just look at gains and losses.  You have to look specifically at the funds you've chosen, and balance them against your personal risk tolerance.  It's very likely that with the right (or wrong) combination of funds, you could have lost as much with T Rowe Price, Vanguard, Bridgeway or any number of fund families.  If you don't believe me, look at their Websites and check the fund performances.  Red ink all over the place.\n\nDon't dump funds just because they're going down or buy them just because they're going up.  How do you know you're not buying at the top or selling at the bottom?  You'll inevitably wind up buying high and selling low.  Understand why you're buying into a fund and if the circumstances that made you buy them still make sense, stick with them.  If circumstances have changed, that's the time to re-evaluate and think about selling.  Also think about selling if the assumptions you made originally were wrong.
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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bobbrinker is really an idiot, so is that Suzie Orman.  I recomend "thestreet.com", go out and get Jim Cramer's books, also pick up a copy of Leeb's "the oil factor", you may want to pick up a copy of Rich Dad/Poor Dad, and also Harry Dent's "the next great bubble boom", and Jim Rogers "hot commodities"  Once you have read those, then you'll have a good entry level understanding of how the equity markets work, and the current forces driving those markets. Also, read the Wall Street Journal daily.  If you do all of these, then you'll be able to have an intelligent conversation with your broker, and possibly be ready to start investing on your own if that is what you choose.  Good luck.
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It's a tough decision, cuz no one knows exactly what the market will do now.  It sounds expensive to me, but I bought in a more rural area, so perhaps prices are different there.\n\nWhen you use comparables, I'd look at sold prices, not asking prices...I assume you are.  Also, look at VERY recent sales only, because something even 3 months ago was in a very different type of market.  Prices are definitely dropping, but rates are also definitely going up.  I'd make a lower offer and see if he takes it...like up to 20% lower, just to see.  I think it will be good to buy sometime now, but I like lower prices if you can get them.
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'John Blaze' is full of sh*t; you don't need $25K to daytrade. Open a brokerage account. Study John Murphy, "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets". Don't trust money managers; they will rip you off. Take control of your money. Find a stock that has huge price swings daily or weekly such as Juniper Networks or Redback Networks. These are high 'beta' stocks. Depending on your age, part of your portfolio should be speculative. If you are in your 20s and your portfolio is less than 100K, then definitely you should be using your knowledge and investing in high beta stocks to profit greatly from their daily and weekly price swings. You have the years to do that. 'Short' the stock when it goes down, and go 'Long' when it goes up. As your portfolio grows to a couple Mil or so, then you can pull back and put some of it in stuff that is a little lower beta such as the QQQ. As an example of how well you can do by taking control of your money: if just do your normal 1% per day on that 100K porfolio over a year through profiting from the swings, how much would you have after one year? You got it my friend, way over $$$1Mil!! Give it whorl, go for it!
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Hi,\n\nFrom experience, you should be very cautious when approaching penny stocks because they can lose value very quickly. It may worth  opening a demo account to play with "play" money before using real money.\n\nGood Luck!
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A lot - but all that glitters is not gold.  It sounds like a boiler room scam to me.  You need to know why this company's value is going to increase over only 5 days.  What is the business case ?  Who is the broker and what track record do they have ?  If they are not a large recognisable company the chances are it isn't legitimate.  \n\nThe answer is with a sale price of $1.50 that it would hypothetically yield 8,062.50 - $860 (money invested) =$ 7,202.50 but also transaction costs (say $30 to sell and buy)= \n\n= $7,142.50 profit.  However if you don't just lose your $860 I'll be very surprised.
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Join him on his leap of sadness.  I got hurt bad this past month in the stock market too.....\n\n\nI'm going up a few stories before I leap though.  \n\n\nAnyone want the password to my sharebuilder account?  If it goes back up..."someone" should benefit.
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I just tried to answer this question, typed several paragraphs, then you pulled it. What's the deal?\n\nAnyway, I also sold the EUR this morning, but got stopped out on the spike up at 8:30 prior to the decline. It then declined 50 pips.\n\nIf you had used a trailing 20 pip stop, your trade would have worked out fine.\n\nDon't you move your stop to breakeven when it goes in your favor?\n\nYou did the right thing by executing on the short side, but just didn't manage it when it started running. You have to know that a news release that cements in another rate hike is going to cause volatitility.\n\nThe reasons it went a certain way are unimportant. Just because it doesn't do what you expect is no reason not to trade it. Just follow price and volume, increase your odds, and decrease your risk where and when possible. Sometimes there are no reasons, and you would rarely trade if you had to have a reason every time from some media talking head.\n\nTrade the Mini when volatility increases if you can't afford to lose $1,500.
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Several years ago there was a commodity traded, maine potatoes.  Every year for something over two-dozen years, the price would go up in the middle of January through early February.  Information was not as free back then, I could track causes better today on the Internet.  So I had some money and practiced trading in corn, making a little bit while getting the ropes.  The target was this, the smallest increase was 8 cents a pound, 50,000 pound contracts.  I caught it on a down tick and felt like a surfer catching a wave.  Unfortunately, it was a tsunami.  There were several millionaires who had also spotted the trend and they thought they could buck it.  So the price went limit up, trading stopping after the first couple of minutes, doing this for a few days, then limit down, again stopping trading after a few minutes into the next trading day.  I got a margin call, but it was for more money than I had, so the brokerage confiscated my position.  When the dust settled, the price had indeed gone up as I antcipated, but I was trapped out, unable to profit from it.  For that matter I was paying off that debt to the brokerage firm for years, instead of paying off my mortgage, which is what would have happened if those guys hadn't been greedy.  Meanwhile, it bankrupted something upwards of 100 rich traders who had tried to turn the market, and sent something like 60 to prison.\n\nThis doesn't happen all the time.  Just be careful, you can lose more than you put in, although trading the option MAY limit that.  For instance, even in stock options, if you sell a naked option and things go against you and someone calls that option and you haven't had a covering option to cancel, you are on the hook for supplying the shares.  Be careful of trading too close to the expiration.  I remember positioning for one thing expected to go up, and by the time the events began driving it up, my option was close to expiring, I got almost nothing out of it.\n\nA good plan is a wonderful thing.  But with commodities and commodity options, there is still uncertainty, and definitely danger.
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Overall, not too bad . . . you made a profit.\n\nConsidering the timeframe you are trading, I don't understand why you are referring to a an exit at 1.1006 "which looked like an important resistance".\n\nIt looked like recent resistance was ~1.1055 and sloping upwards.\n\nI would have tried to 'trade the range' of it coming down to ~1.1055 and having hat as a 'buy on stop' or not had any exit order in place, in the hope there was significant weakening due fundamental events (of which there are many these days).