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A Blockbuster Arbitrage Opportunity

This arbitrage is/was similar to VIA and VIA.B Shares, everyonce in a while they come along, the only downside is lost opp. value while watching the paint dry. There are many Arbitrage ops in options vs. equity that are much more expediant. Take a look at crox options, the Theoretical value is far below the premiun on long term leaps, vs. front month options and selling the equity.

AIG: Willumstad's Hard Choice

AIG is a Sell, o one likes uncertainity, and as for un-realized, does that mean not real? This stock is a teenager in the next few months

Options Activity Suggests Likely Suitor for EMC

The best way to play this with limited risk is writing a put spread. Buy the August 14 Put and sell the August 15 Put, this strategy gives you a protection down to 14.09 on the downside and approx $400 in profit per 10 lot if the stock closes anywhere at 15 or above. With limited margin this strategy can be implemented in size

Mother of All Short Squeezes?

Naked shorting Legal?? What? Crazzzyyy....It has nothing to do with the "free markets", essentially people could sell short more shares in a company than actually exsist...Thats not good for anyone in the "free markets". shorting is a good, naked shorting = bad.

Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931

Naked Short Selling as it is called has always been illegal, this will be a BOOM for clearing firms Stock Locate Dept. with borrowing stocks short interest premiums. A hard locate simply means that the "shorter" has to now have the shares of a stock they are shorting, solidly borrowed with interest paid to the lender of the shares, rather than a "best effort" with no interest paid to the specific shareholder. The interesting things are that the Bank Shares have NOT eliminated there dividend as expected and many people shorting at the currently low multiples and share prices also have to pay the dividend to the lending shareholder, and eventual deterent-

Barron's Goes Bullish on Banks, Again

Barrons Loved GM, The Housing Sector and Now Banking? They Will go 3 for 3 with this pick, 3 for 3 to the downside that is.....Maybe there is still a little pop left after last weeks huge run, but the banks are a long way from being outright buys-

Well-Capitalized Regional Banks: The Bottom Is In

Foreclosures aren't anywhere close to being done yet, commercial re coming to the party, heating oil prices in the North this winter will break the averge person, why buy bottoms, buy good co's on the way up-

Why I Bought Financials (Despite the Mess)

Your article title should be "How I lost it All in Financials"(Despite being advised not to), why try to pick bottoms....buy strength on dips not weakness-

Housing: Barron's Calls a Bottom

Barrons did a great job calling GM going much higher in the 20's- Lol, A great SELL Indicator, Sheep following wolves into the forest-

Love Notes from Fannie Mae to the Fed, Etc.

Buy??
Sure Buy on a "No Credibility Bail Out", this market is going much lower-
The Fed, Paulson & Fannie/Freddie All have NO Credibility

Parsing Paulson: The Fannie and Freddie Bailout

Gross.....On Friday, Fannie and Freddie say they don't need anything, and the Fed denies any need for action. 2 days later....A Bail Out.
CAN YOU SAY NO CREDIBILITY
And then the SEC is going to go after rumor mongers??? The RUMORs turn out to be true more often then not now a days....
What a joke-

Friday Options Update: FRE, FNM, LEH, WB, AIG, SLM, MER, XLF

People are confusing loan losses at FNM and FRE with SLM, A mistake-

NYSE Short Interest Hits Record Highs... Again

Doesn't seem to be a contrarian indicator any more-

Oil Price: $100 Before $150 - But $200 Before $50

Well looks like you are short term wrong.....$150 (Next few days) before $100. $100? Probably never again-

As Yahoo Fights for Board Control, Analyst Suggests AOL Merger

The blind leading the blind.....