Option Trading Articles: Re: [ConservativeOptionStrategies] rmbs

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Re: [ConservativeOptionStrategies] rmbs

Schwab will (or at least would) let you do calender spreads if you are/were " the right person". I do not know how you achieve that stature. I know I talked to someone and somehow magically am now allowed to do cc's against leaps in both my regular and IRA accounts. No, I do not remember who that someone was! It was, if I remember the time frame, about 4 months ago, a trial program for IRAs. As best I could see, you needed to have enough equity to cover the problems if they came up -- e.g.. the short call neded to be bought back.

--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Vandollar <mercdesdrvr@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Vandollar <mercdesdrvr@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ConservativeOptionStrategies] rmbs
To: ConservativeOptionStrategies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 4:00 PM

Can an investor buy leaps and sell CCs against them? Schwab only lets me buy stock and sell covered calls or do unwinds. Any places let a small CC investor do this?

--- On Wed, 12/30/09, sandypmeade@ aol.com <sandypmeade@ aol.com> wrote:

From: sandypmeade@ aol.com <sandypmeade@ aol.com>
Subject: Re: [ConservativeOption Strategies] rmbs
To: ConservativeOptionS trategies@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 11:55 AM

Dec 30, 2009 (SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) ----SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for Rambus (NASDAQ:RMBS) on November 12, 2009 at $18.34. In approximately 2 months, Rambus has returned 33.4% as of today's recent price of $24.46.

Rambus is currently above its 50-day moving average of $19.40 and above its 200-day moving average of $15.93. Look for these moving averages to climb to confirm the company's upward momentum.

SmarTrend will continue to scan these moving averages and a number of other proprietary indicators for any shifts in the trajectory of Rambus shares.

Oracle sniffing around Citrix, HP around Rambus

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Posted in Enterprise, 28th December 2009 19:55 GMT

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According to the Briefing.com ~~rumor mongering~~ financial news site, software giant Oracle - not even finished with its $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems - is sniffing around middleware and virtualization maker Citrix Systems and may be interested in acquiring the company.In the same report, you'll find that Briefing.com is also hearing chatter about someone wanting to acquire Rambus, with HP being mentioned as the possible buyer of that memory company.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudgens <jdhudgens2000@ yahoo.com>
To: ConservativeOptionS trategies@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 11:00 am
Subject: [ConservativeOption Strategies] rmbs

Does anyone know why RMBS options are so rich??

you can buy it for $23.40 sell the Jan 19 for $5.50 (bid) and still make 4.7% What is wrong with this picture??

John