<p>Got any ideas of what I should do with the 60’s - should I hold, roll out to the 60’s next week or the 55’s next week and lose a few bucks?</p>
<p>Too early for me to decide…</p>
<p>There is a chance the 60’s close out worthless…</p>
<p>No 2 hour walks in the morning for me today. :)</p>
<p>I had no problem at all borrowing HLF. Of course, I am not trading thousands of shares like the hedge funds are. I big order might have been hard to short.</p>
<p>I suspect the HLF CEO will make sure he has good earnings and that will run up the stock Feb 19.</p>
<p>I thought herbalife would be hard to borrow.</p>
<p>I was able to put in a short order at schwab. I am surprised. (I cancelled the order).</p>
<p>I thought hlf was on the hard to borrow list and you had to pay interest to short the stock. Maybe Ackman didn’t cover his short, but I guess other firms did cover their shorts.</p>
<p>The ddd’s are way too volatile for me to be comfortable. I wouldn’t normally do this type of stock but my standard stuff like iwm etc have sharply reduced volatility at a time when I expect volatility to increase.</p>
<p>I understand. I feel the same. I will probably buy the 60’s in before the close if the premium keeps dropping. Otherwise, I might roll some and cover some.</p>
<p>I am not short that many 60’s puts this time. I was short more last week. I don’t trust this stock. :)</p>
<p>I sold the spy 143 puts for .08 today. They expire in 2 weeks. I only did this because I am long marches. The premium is too low to do this.</p>
<p>I also wanted to own ddd - when it was going up - not so much now</p>
<p>:)…</p>
<p>We should have just copied BCEagle91 and bought google. :)</p>
<p>Yeah - I guess I should have paid attention to the candlestick pattern for goog</p>
<p>DDD reminds me of AEM back when it was a high beta stock.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why XOOM is trading @22 right now. I thought the IPO px of $16 was high.</p>
<p>post#4892, dstark, yes, I agree the options trades before the Heinz deal is extremely suspicious. One of the Najarian brothers pointed that out yesterday morning.</p>
<p>Well…the ipo price was expected to be lower. When IPOs price above the expected pricing range that is usually a positive.</p>
<p>Other than that, who knows why the stock is priced at 22?</p>
<p>Ichan is about to go on CNBC. I thought he said he would never go on Scott Wapner’s cnbc show again.</p>
<p>I watched the interview. The interviewer did not understand Icahn’s option position. The interviewer does not understand options.</p>
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<p>Ok…my cell phone broke. I broke down and bought an iphone5. My first smart phone. It is cool. I can see why people like these. </p>
<p>Now I can walk around and trade and be oblivious to my surroundings. :)</p>
<p>I bought the aapl 435-430 put spread ratio of 1 by 2.</p>
<p>I thought that I was the last guy to discover the iPhone.</p>
<p>I bought back the ddd 60’s that I sold for .41, earlier today for .45 - I decided not to roll it out - my first put selling loss. It looks like I’ll be ok with the 55’s though so net I’m positive for ddd.</p>
<p>^ I’m still using a “basic function” phone with an actual keyboard.</p>
<p>Verizon gets enough of my money every month already.</p>