if you were long as of the close yesterday and held
overnight, then you get the dividend. today it trades without the
divedend, hence "ex". would suck if you took a whack like that and
didn't get the dividend!! if you sell it today you still get the
dividend since you will be holder of record.
if you were long as of
8/71 EMA System
Posted by cece60 on 23rd of Dec 2008 at 10:57 am
if you were long as of the close yesterday and held overnight, then you get the dividend. today it trades without the divedend, hence "ex". would suck if you took a whack like that and didn't get the dividend!! if you sell it today you still get the dividend since you will be holder of record.
SRS distributions
Posted by pdani on 23rd of Dec 2008 at 11:02 am
thanks...I wonder if some of the whack yesterday in the last minutes was due to this or just the market bouncing?
I'm sure it had something
Posted by dylan398 on 23rd of Dec 2008 at 11:11 am
I'm sure it had something to do with it...
good point lol, but that's
Posted by matt on 23rd of Dec 2008 at 10:59 am
good point lol, but that's not the system of course