SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[Fox13]

HLNS, I am very surprised to hear that! They might have gotten some retailers to do it! Anyway... thank you again for the info yesterday. …After I found out that the ex-dividend would mess up the value of options, it got pretty tense…From 9:57 am EST the market started a systematic up-trip. The typical sign of Divine Intervention was there: the ratio between losses or gains on DOW and on SPX was evolving toward the magic 10. Therefore, I got out of all complex “synthetic positions” that I had on indices and of all individual stock shorts and FAZ long. As a fact, on close the situation was: DJI = + 44.51 / SPX = + 4.663. Ratio = 9.613. LOL! In essence, it was not a bead idea, since it all ended up with a good profit. Could have been smarter to keep at least some calls… Now, apparently the market is going to spiral UP again, led by C and AIG…We could not have found better leaders! How cute!