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check out the 15 minute on it!!!
hey langlui check out this chart i posted for ya on the 24th!
lleg another view:
it does look like a rockin chart. look at what happened last time it crossed the ema62, to bad i dont have any free funds right now.
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i know, i believe it! shes a truckin at full speed!
damnit, i sold too soon!!! got in at .54 and sold at .68, oh well profit is profit i guess. makes me a sad panda!
damn i sold mesa to soon!!! .54 to .68 damnit, oh well profit is profit i guess
do u play options based on the pincher chart set-up???
mesa +25 %
mesa +18%
mesa +12%, just broke through the ema10
mesa:
mesa +14%:
some pincher plays to check out:
here are my picks to watch: danky, mesa, vspc, cknn, meca, copi, irbl, deep
when is the best time to buy? morning or mid-day. is there like an "amateur hour" in options? oh heres a chart for kicks and giggles:
lang, just paper tradin some options and lookin at visa, and saw that they report financial results on monday afterhours. would this be a bad time to hit em' up with a may or june call?
oh yeah, you better believe i will be paper trading them! no reason to just throw money away at them if u dont really know whats up. and yeah im just starting to learn about options. want to learn as much as i can in every aspect about them before i dip my real money into them. . .
If i want to buy an option call with the intent to sell it prior to the expiration, when i go to place the order it gives me two options to buy it. buy open and buy close. whats the difference???
If i want to buy an option call with the intent to sell it prior to the expiration, when i go to place the order it gives me two options to buy it. buy open and buy close. whats the difference???
ahhh, answered my own question: pulled this off the tradeking options playbook:
Imagine you’re bullish on stock XYZ, trading at $50. As a beginning option trader, you might be tempted to buy calls 30 days from expiration with a strike price of $55, at a cost of $0.15, or $15 per contract. Why? Because you can buy a lot of them. Let’s do the math. (And remember, one option contract usually equals 100 shares.)
Purchasing 100 shares of XYZ at $50 would cost $5000. But for the same $5000, you could buy 333 contracts of $55 calls, and control 33,300 shares. Holy smokes.
Imagine XYZ hits $56 within the next 30 days, and the $55 call trades at $1.05 just prior to expiration. You’d make $29,970 in a month ($34,965 sale price minus $4995 initially paid) less commissions. At first glance, that kind of leverage is very attractive indeed.
When you buy a call option with a strike price of $55 at a cost of $0.15, and the stock currently trading at $50, you need the stock price to rise $5.15 before your options expire in order to break even. That’s a pretty significant rise in a short time. And that kind of move can be very difficult to predict.
One of the problems with short-term out-of-the-money calls is that you not only have to be right about the direction the stock moves, but you also have to be right about the timing. That ratchets up the degree of difficulty.
Furthermore, to make a profit, the stock doesn’t merely need to go past the strike price within a predetermined period of time. It needs to go past the strike price plus the cost of the option. In the case of the $55 call on stock XYZ, you’d need the stock to reach $55.15 within 30 days just to break even. And that doesn’t even factor in commissions.
In essence, you’re asking the stock to move more than 10% in less than a month. How many stocks are likely to do that? The answer you’re looking for is, “Not many.” In all probability, the stock won’t reach the strike price, and the options will expire worthless. So in order to make money on an out-of-the-money call, you either need to outwit the market, or get plain lucky.
why no outta-da-money option trades?
what you got cookin up in options wonderland???
what do u think would be a good entry on this one???
whats your avg on this one???
is it ready to go??? news here:
VIASPACE Receives Contract From Major Japanese Corporation for SHINE Expert System
(PR Newswire 04/22 08:45:09)
PASADENA, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a company commercializing proven technologies from
NASA and the US Department of Defense, reported that it has received a
contract from a major Japanese corporation for a software project involving
the SHINE (Spacecraft Health Inference Engine) inference engine/expert system
software and its sensor fusion capabilities. The nature of the contract and
the Japanese corporation were not revealed because of a confidentiality
agreement.
VIASPACE has a license from Caltech to commercialize the SHINE real-time
inference engine software technology with the exclusive rights for most major
applications including defense applications, homeland defense, maritime
security and diagnostics/prognostics. SHINE was originally developed by the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to monitor hundreds of sensors on spacecraft in
real-time. SHINE is a real-time inference engine/expert system that is more
than 100 times faster than competing technologies, and has a small memory
footprint which enables it to run on commercial microcontrollers and
microprocessors.
Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE, commented: "We are pleased to begin this
new effort in pursuit of several solutions for this major customer. Our
customer's identity needs to be protected at this point in order to provide
them with the competitive advantage they are seeking by partnering with
VIASPACE. We believe that our sensor data fusion and SHINE inference engine
technologies will play a key role in their new generation of 'smart'
products."
Kukkonen continued, "VIASPACE believes that SHINE has broad reaching
capabilities in areas such as diagnostics and prognostics, medical systems,
manufacturing and plant management, finance and even video games."
About VIASPACE: Originally founded in 1998 with the objective of
transforming proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the
Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's
complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software
licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
For more information, please visit http://www.VIASPACE.com, or contact
Investor Relations, Dr. Jan Vandersande, Director of Communications at
800-517-8050, or IR@VIASPACE.com. For past press releases, please visit:
http://www.viaspace.com/press_release.php.
This news release includes forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance
and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. Such factors include the risks outlined in our periodic filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-KSB, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, as well as
general economic and business conditions, the ability to acquire and develop
specific projects and technologies, the ability to fund operations, changes in
consumer and business consumption habits, and other factors over which
VIASPACE has little or no control.
SOURCE VIASPACE Inc.
Contact Information:
Carl Kukkonen of VIASPACE Inc., +1-626-768-3360
WebSite:
http://www.VIASPACE.com
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yeah that kinda makes sense. thanks! just learning options and paper-trading them at the current time. they seem like fun!
can you explain this part a little bit:
"The harder part is to work with the premium and time value. Current month is May. May options' premium is much higher in the first two weeks (this week and next week). Once we enter the month of May, those May options' premium are going to go down. Time value decay as the option gets closer to expiration date."
i am also currently trying to learn options and dont really understand this part...
thanks!!!
penny whats your take on irbl??? has it run out of steam? whats your take.
hey bigz whats your take on irbl here???
what are u in at???
here is my chart on it: breakout. now hopefully it can hold the trendline breakout. . .
do you use etrade for them? if so what level did you sign up for???
chart, i was curious, do you play options???
now wouldn't that be nice!!! its coiled tight and about to pop, and a pop to the upside would be nice!!!
18,700 shares traded at .78