The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
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The QCC order, which allows valid and executable orders to immediately cross upon arrival with no auction, protects the anonymity of the trader and involves a stock component executed away from the Exchange on which the options were crossed.
Ms. Baiynd wasn't the only short-term trader flocking to the stock.
The customer was a stock trader, but a stock trader who had lost his job.
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The combination of long stock and debit put spread positions the trader to make money on the upside if shares in Cree continue to rally, while also providing downside protection in the event of a pullback through February expiration.
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For the most part, the at-home active stock trader has a dismal record.
For a sense of what was going on at the New York Stock Exchange, I checked in throughout the day with trader Ted Wessberg.
The former Prudential derivatives trader rejoined First Marblehead in September 2008 after the stock had lost most of its value because of the collapsing value of its loan portfolio.
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After Martoma received confidential bad news about the drug trial in July 2008, the hedge fund owner and Martoma got the senior trader at the hedge fund to sell Elan and Wyeth stock, the complaint says.
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The ratio of twice as many short puts exposes the trader to losses if the price of the stock drops like a rock in the near term.
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That, and the absence of a rule requiring short sales to be done on a stock's uptick, gives plenty of ammunition to a trader intent on driving a stock into the ground.
The trader profits on the short stock if shares drop, while the long calls hedge potential bullish movement in the price of the underlying through expiration in March.
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That bullish momentum in stocks is keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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That bullish momentum in stocks has been keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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Predictably, short-seller advocacy groups lamented the toughness and cost burdens of the new regulations, under which a trader wanting to short a particular stock has to find a price above the prevailing national best bid and offer price if the stock has already fallen 10% or more from the previous trading session.
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Firmer U.S. stock indexes Wednesday did somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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Doing so results in a net credit, which the trader retains as long as the stock closes between the sold strikes when the options expire.
One of its securities analyst, in recent testimony to a Senate committee, said he recommended Enron stock because he was hoodwinked by the energy trader.
Stronger U.S. stock indexes Wednesday morning are somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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It was like trading a penny stock at some points during the day, one trader said.
As a recovering stock trader, I know too well the panic and euphoria that accompanies the quarterly ritual of corporate earnings report.
On the floor of the American Stock Exchange it is widely believed that any trader cocky enough to attract media attention is destined to "blow out" -- trader lingo for going out of business.
Lucy Aikman lost her job as a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange two years ago and hasn't worked since.
With naked short-selling, a trader has almost limitless ability to hammer a stock into the ground.
To evaluate their performance, I assumed a trader could theoretically purchase a two-week option on the stock every single day.
In the second, Johnson allegedly paid kickbacks to a trader at JPMorgan Chase for stock loan trades.
The trader significantly decreased the cost of taking a directional stance on the stock by employing a call spread instead of buying the closer-to-the-money calls outright.
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Brian is also the editor of Follow The Money Trader a trading service that tracks institutional money flows and looks for great stock picks from that data.
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