Once again, it would appear that options traders are offsetting long stock positions by purchasing index puts.
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But no research was available to the unwashed masses, many of whom were purchasing stock for the first time, because the company was too large.
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Rather than purchasing stock at the market price and actually delivering the shares, brokers can let each other's unfilled deliveries ride as part of a gentleman's agreement.
That's why Hank Paulson decided to pump money directly into the banks by purchasing preferred stock.
According to Yoon there are still reasons to be optimistic about purchasing this stock now.
In purchasing the stock, you will be paying for the net FMV of the underlying assets.
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His holding company, Access Industries, started by purchasing common stock in LyondellBasell during the restructuring, issued through a rights offering and on the Pink Sheets.
It could be viewed as similar to purchasing a stock and immediately putting in a limit order to sell the stock for which you are being paid.
Because rather than getting a real stake in the social networking giant, it looks like purchasing the stock will at best be the equivalent of being a peasant in Farmville.
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The timing is bad for the Pritzkers, but good for investors, who will be purchasing Hyatt stock at a time when hotel shares are trading at low multiples to earnings.
The next day, September 22, Darden bought large amounts of AirTran common stock and call options, purchasing a total of 40, 000 shares and 200 out-of-the-money call options.
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Of course an easy way to invest in any kind of Japanese stock market recovery is by purchasing share of iShares MSCI Japan Index fund ( EWJ), which is down about 1% so far this year.
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You can see above that I have the 32, 33 and 34 calls shaded, because if I were bullish on TOL and the growing business in Housing and I did not want to spend much money to potentially profit from an upward move in the stock, I might consider purchasing the March32-33-34 call butterfly.
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With SIRI in oversold territory following its recent decline, it is possible that traders were purchasing puts alongside their stock acquisitions.
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But they must abide by Federal Reserve Board rules barring the use of the credit lines for purchasing or carrying margin stock.
In contrast, stock investments since 1980 have increased their purchasing power more than fourfold.
This involves purchasing a constant dollar amount of stock on a regular basis.
Within two hours of the call, Teeple telephoned an investment adviser, who began purchasing a large amount of Foundry stock even before he got off the phone, prosecutors said.
Secondaries can often present buying opportunities for bullish investors interested in purchasing shares, because the sudden extra supply of stock tends to require that the offering be priced at an attractive discount to where the stock had previously been trading before the offering announcement.
And in Hong Kong the view seems to be that buying stock in a high-tech start-up is akin to purchasing a lottery ticket.
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But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
In simple terms, you can exercise your right to purchase the stock at the strike price (call away) with a Call and you have the right to sell the stock at any time (put to someone) at the strike price at any time by purchasing a Put.
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