Walter White would be jealous!

Hmmm. TDA is showing hard to borrow rate at 9%. You can still add to your position, just costly. Bid/Ask spread on those options is ridiculous.

LOL. You're thinking Baylor University in Waco. BMC is a world class medical school in Houston.

Easy now. Credentials were called into question earlier. Don't you want confirmation that the CEO is who he says he is in the face of all the scathing accusations?

Besides, the more important credentials, the ones behind the science, were just reconfirmed by me.

And no scrounging in the weeds this weekend- I have a dissertation to read.

Agreed. Clarification would be good.

I just vetted Dr. Diwan's Rice credentials. It should not be too difficult to do the same for Seymour's BCM claims.

I happen to know quite a few BCM grads, seeing as their campus is adjacent to ours and we drank at all the same bars. Perhaps one of them could point me in the right direction.

http://www.dspace.rice.edu/handle/1911/15966

Hmmm. A two minute search on my alumni website turned this up. EDIT: Dr. Diwan did matriculate at Rice and even had his dissertation approved and published.

And... a quick call to the alumni center confirmed that an Anil R. Diwan was awarded a PhD in biochemistry in 1986.

Anyone have similar info on Dr./Mr. Seymour?

Oh Snap! (Do the kids still say that?)

Gene, you got some splainin' to do. We are going to need a scan of that sheepskin, por favor.

Now it's time to look into the actual inventor of the 'snake oil', Dr. Diwan. I am interested because his bio states he is a fellow Owl.

We Owls get a little testy when someone falsely claims to be one of our elite number...

More to come.

That is why. Res DOES survive the gut, but bioavailability is low. Won't make it to the parts of the body where you need it.

Injections are another story. Works wonderfully if you can tolerate the discomfort. If it didn't sting so bad, I would still be using it.

I'm curious. How did you take the resveratrol? Oral or subq?

Thanks TNP. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated.

I think you asked tough, thorough questions and were right to put them on the spot.

Person mark for you!

NFLX - Think you might get your pullback soon...

Tested 123.50 twice now. Not a true double top, but if it doesn't break it in the next session or two I think there will be a good chance for a retrace.

Well someone is BTFD right now... but if she loses 611.50 this session you shall get your wish and more

AAPL Well there's some pullback for you!

Too bad I had the Mar 17 calls! LOL

However... I don't like the candle it made today. Looks like someone wants it to close that gap real bad. Might be a good fight over the next couple of days.

NFLX has at least a few more dollars upside before RSI touches 70 and it starts to consolidate. Also lots of things going for it:

Daily trend is currently up, Daily MACD just crossed to the upside, next resistance level is 124-125 range. If it breaks that, then it will work its way to 131. If it breaks and holds that, then look out above because it just completed the cup and handle pattern.

The only thing that could undermine that is bad news during the next couple of weeks, and as we saw last summer that can certainly happen

Got it. Thanks Mikey

Sorry, my question is what will happen to option prices if there is a forward split. Let's say $600 stock gets a 2 for 1. If you had 100 shares before now you have 200 at $300.

Now if you had 10 options contracts, do you get 20 contracts at a lower value or do you still have 10 and they retain the same value?

Hopefully i'm more clear this time. Thanks!

What effect would a fwd stock split have on options contracts? If the split was 2 for 1 would you get 2 for 1 contracts? I have never encountered that situation before. Thanks

LNKD Nice paint at the close. The candle was bad but would have been worse had we closed below yesterday's open. There is some hope yet.

Plus, just had a print of 94.33 AH... WTF?

I am starting to get the sneaking suspicion that they will pin this at 380 on opex day... not good for my 370 march puts

AZO- bullish flag upside breakout. nHOD

No brainer for sure. AZO has been unstoppable.

Great alert YAK. Thanks! And now a classic cup and handle forming. Going higher IMO. Hopefully it fills that big gap!

FSLR nLOD. Took out major support @30. Will it hold...

JPM- nHOD

JPM- Yes she does! Bull flag forming... let's see if there's a continuation.

FSLR testing 30...again. Die you POS. Finger on trigger in case of bounce though.

Thanks. I just wanted to learn in order to prevent a repeat!

I am with you... got JPM 40 MAR17 C, FSLR 30 MAR17 P & VXX 28 APR21 C

Did we ever get a good explanation why JOY Weeklies lost 60% value when the stock went up at open yesterday? Got stopped out and it looks like I was one of the lucky ones.

FSLR- downward channel on 1 minute intact. Might be sub-$30 in half hour or so if it continues.

Agreed. Down goes Frasier

Thanks...doesn't look like it matters anyway. Tanking

What happened to JOY weekly prices? I am showing .30x.38 on the 95C weeklies. I bought yesterday around 1.00. Theta's only -.19. Dumbfounded...

SODA?!? Holy... They blew out earnings...sell on news?

48 hr rule perhaps?

Right there with ya bro... vega value almost nil now.

Also, to use Fidelity's day trade platform you have to do a minimum number of trades, whereas anyone can use TOS or Strategy Desk with TDA.

Probably not an issue for you...lol

I have both TDA & Fidelity... Fidelity has some decent screeners but TDA/ ThinkorSwim blows it away IMO. Fidelity customer service is tough to beat though.

Also, slightly OT, TDA's istockmanager app for android is lightyears beyond any other phone platform.

Good post...I know someone like that very well! Thanks for the encouragement.

Holy chit, "they" pinned it. There might be something to max pain theory after all.