Looks like both S&P and Nasdaq are about to have a golden cross in the next 2 weeks? Although their 200-day are flat.
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Russell has not been doing wellâŚ
BLACK MONDAY??? 
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Itâs more likely to cause a relief rally.
âNo more indictments will be filed from the special counselâs office, nor will any more be recommended, a senior Justice Department official told NBC.â
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I havenât given this much thought. Can you select DRIP for any S&P tracking MF or ETF? Or is this available only for some instruments?
DRIP is your choice to setup with broker for any stocks, ETFs, MFs. Check your broker setup, you will see it or talk to them to set for all your investments. DRIP grows better in the long hold like haneraâs AAPL which he bought in 1998.
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Just make sure to turn off auto DRIP a month before tax loss harvesting. Otherwise it becomes a wash sale.
@Jil Option trading portfolio hits a new ATH. However, broad market would soon pull back badly. Raise cash to BTFD.
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Better beware of Aapl in that case. Itâs the only stock that is suffering today.
Probably hit $200s, pull back to $180s which would then be lower than @manch BABA. Jim Cramer advises âhold, not trade AAPLâ 
After @manch said it is easy to make money with BABA, it tumbles below AAPLâŚ
Options are always time bound and speculative. Options are aggressive traders mentality.
That is against buy and hold.
Option trading portfolio makes a new ATH today. Up 5+%.
You read the wrong literature. 
those lit Give you a short lesson,
Long underlying == Long call + Short put
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On any case, Long call + Short put, can you hold it for 5 to 10 years, like buy and hold?
Why did you purchase AAPL shares (1998) instead of (Long call + Short put) AAPL ?
Options are not owning the stocks or part of the company, it is the right to own stocks.
BTW: This forum only few people, less 10, are discussing, but not actively participated by many⌠I do not know whyâŚ
Aware of options only in 2005-6 
Yes. Roll the spread. Profit and loss profile of long call and short put is exactly the same as long underlying 
Introverted personality For them, opening a new topic or chip in requires Herculean effort. Also not many want to share their secret sauce of success, not many can withstand alternative view especially those that expose their logic flaws.
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For me, time bound options are scary, I do not want to take any risk like thatâŚJust buy stocks when it is low, hold. Whenever I feel good gain, sell it. This is easier than options.
Most probably, I hold LEAPs position far longer than youâve held the shares.
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I said itâs easy to understand. Making money is hard no matter what names you are talking about.
Even the fall of BABA is easy to understand. The dead man aka Yahoo is unwinding its BABA position. Expect more short term selling pressure. In a way itâs easy to make money with BABA. Just buy when the losers sell.
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Sure you wonât need to sell to cover margin calls? 
In that case, shouldnât MU very easy to understand? Over production, price of NAND/ Flash drop, MU drops. Demand greater than production, price of NAND/Flash increases, MU rallies. Commodities are that easy to understand. Recalled there is a SOX exchange where you can monitor prices of memory chips⌠cake for you, right?