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Why Options?
2008-01-10 03:23:00
Before exploring the various trading strategies, it is important to understand what is an option, specifically what is a call and put. A Call Option In the case of an equity option, a contract that... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Build Trading System
2008-01-10 03:20:00
In today?s option trading blog I want relect back on my first days as a pro. I remember sitting in front of the screen and wondering ? now what? Where do I start?Successful traders have a systematic decision-making approach that they have refined. They follow the same steps time after time. Some have quantitative earnings models that end with a physical tour of the company. Others have software programs that identify pricing relationships and disparities. Others might have technical analysis filters that target inflection points. The list is endless, but ultimately, they all have a system. A standardized routine with a well defined beginning, middle and end exists.Before you start your quest, take inventory and identify your trading style and expertise. Look closely at your successes and failures. What characteristics are common to all of the good trades? How about the bad trades? This process will help you recognize situations to seek and avoid. A trade log can help you with this s...
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Build Trading System
2008-01-10 03:20:00
In today?s option trading blog I want relect back on my first days as a pro. I remember sitting in front of the screen and wondering ? now what? Where do I start? Successful traders have a... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Option Trading Basic
2008-01-10 03:18:00
In today?s option trading blog I will address some important concepts for the novice option trader. Options trading gets so much press these days that it?s hard for traders to determine where to go... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Option Trading Basic
2008-01-10 03:18:00
In today?s option trading blog I will address some important concepts for the novice option trader. Options trading gets so much press these days that it?s hard for traders to determine where to go and who to trust. I believe there is a natural progression to the whole process and it can?t be rushed. Options are not a get rich scheme that you can jump into. Do people make a lot of money trading options? Yes, they also lose a lot of money. The risk and reward is elevated and every mistake is magnified. Here are some points to consider if you are just getting started.1. Become a good stock picker first. Before you can become a good option trader, you need to be able to analyze stocks. Options are merely an extension of your stock opinion.2. Read, read, read. I would start with books on technical and fundamental analysis. John Murphy and Martin Pring have authored excellent books on technical analysis. Peter Lynch, William O?Neil and Warren Buffet have written excellent books fundament...
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Hedge-fund group makes recommendations
2008-01-10 03:17:00
While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Congress have been trying to increase hedge-fund regulation for the last couple of years, the hedge-fund industry took a step toward policing itself in early November.The Managed Fund s Association (MFA) expanded and updated recommendations it made to members in 2005 after a government group suggested the industry needed more self-regulation.The report, which sought input from hedge-fund managers, financial executives, accountants, and investors, focuses on a few major points.Overall, the MFA wants to make sure all fund managers are on the same page when it comes to internal policies and practices. The report states, ?MFA has developed and updated the recommendations in the belief that the most effective form of industry oversight is self-discipline and self-monitoring by hedge-fund managers as part of a shared responsibility with market counterparties, investors, and regulators. The recommendations should enhance the a...
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Designing and testing a pattern-based trading system
2008-01-10 03:16:00
We expand a study of multi-day highs and lows into a promising short-term reversal system.BY HOWARD BANDYA recent article (?Market facts: Three-day pivots,? Active Trader, August 2007) analyzed 10 years of S&P 500 data and showed Monday was most often a three-day pivot high between April 16, 1997 and April 11, 2007, while Wednesday was most often a three-day pivot low during this period.This article takes the analysis a little further and develops a technique for turning those observations into a trading system.We begin by making two observations. First, it?s impossible to tell that any day is a three-day pivot until the market establishes an intraday range three days after the pivot day. Second, we cannot buy the low or sell the high.However, we can make some adjustments to be able to trade on estimations of these. A day cannot be a three-day pivot low unless it is a four-day low. That is, the low of a three-day pivot low day is lower than the lowest low of the three previous days....
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The inside track
2008-01-10 03:15:00
Riding the coattails of insider buyers might offer a trading edge for the rest of us.BY DAVID BUKEYSeveral days after Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) fell 8.9 percent overnight on Oct. 20, 2005, Director Peter A. Magowan bought $7.5 million of Caterpillar stock. Magowan bought this large stake when CAT traded just above its three-month low. The stock jumped 51.65 percent within six months.This purchase wasn?t confidential, because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires ?insiders? ? all officers and directors of publicly traded companies ? to report any trades in their stock. Magowan reported this transaction within two days of his initial purchase.But are insiders always good investors? Admittedly, this is a cherry-picked example; not all insiders buy at such fortuitous times. However, when insiders buy their stock directly, they expect it to climb.By contrast, insiders sell their stock for countless reasons ? to diversify their holdings, pay bills, exercise options ? not nece...
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The inside track
2008-01-10 03:15:00
Riding the coattails of insider buyers might offer a trading edge for the rest of us. BY DAVID BUKEY Several days after Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) fell 8.9 percent overnight on Oct. 20, 2005, Director... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Behind the Wall with Stephen McClellan
2008-01-10 03:14:00
An industry insider explains why you don?t matter to Wall Street ? and what you can do about it.BY MARK ETZKORNStephen McClellan wants you to be your own stock analyst. He thinks you can do it ? correction, he thinks you should do it, given what he knows about Wall Street and the information most people rely on to make investment decisions.Until retiring in 2003, McClellan spent 32 years as a highly regarded Wall Street stock analyst ? 19 consecutive years on the Institutional Investor All-American Research team and seven years on the Wall Street Journal poll ? who plied much of his trade at Street behemoths Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers.If you?ve always suspected there was something crooked at the intersection of Wall and Broad streets ? and who could blame you after the fudged numbers and analyst complicity that emerged in the wake of the tech implosion in 2000 ? McClellan?s new book, Full of Bull (Financial Times press, 2007), is pretty much your worst fears realized.In it M...
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Behind the Wall with Stephen McClellan
2008-01-10 03:14:00
An industry insider explains why you don?t matter to Wall Street ? and what you can do about it. BY MARK ETZKORN Stephen McClellan wants you to be your own stock analyst. He thinks you can do it ?... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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The Diagonal Backspread
2008-01-10 03:11:00
In a recent report, we examined an option strategy known as the backspread. This week, we examine a related strategy, the diagonal backspread. As we shall see, each type of type of spread has its own... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/

The Diagonal Backspread
2008-01-10 03:11:00
In a recent report, we examined an option strategy known as the backspread. This week, we examine a related strategy, the diagonal backspread. As we shall see, each type of type of spread has its own risk/reward characteristics, which can make them attractive under different sets of circumstances.Backspread ReviewWith the standard backspread, the investor buys a number of options at a one strike price and then sells a lesser number of options of the same maturity that are struck more deeply in-the-money. (You may want to refer to "Finding and Setting Backspreads," Ot00612.Pdf in our Options Reports Archive).If you set it up properly, a backspread can give you unlimited profits if the stock's movement favors the bias of your long options (i.e. up for calls and down for puts). If time premiums are low enough, there is often a chance that you can establish a backspread at a net credit of premium. Often, for short time periods, backspreads can be almost "risk free" (not counting bid/as...

Backspreads
2008-01-10 03:10:00
This week, we examine the "backspread", an options combination in which the investor buys a certain number of options with a particular strike price and writes a lesser number of options at a strike price that is more deeply in-the-money. The backspread tends to give the investor unlimited profits if the stock's movement favors the bias of the long options, and a finite gain if the stock moves the other way. One advantage of the backspread is that it often can be established at a credit. Another advantage is that over a limited period of time after it is established, it can provide very attractive profit potential with relatively little risk. Backspreads, however, are complicated and not without pitfalls. You should analyze each backspread carefully before you establish it and then monitor it carefully once you have put it on. To do this, we recommend that you use our option position analyzer, Whatifi3.Xls.Same Expiration, More Longs than ShortsWith a call backspread, you buy a gre...

Backspreads
2008-01-10 03:10:00
This week, we examine the "backspread", an options combination in which the investor buys a certain number of options with a particular strike price and writes a lesser number of options at a strike... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/

The One-to-One Diagonal Spread
2008-01-10 03:09:00
You create a diagonal spread when you buy and write options (calls or puts, but not both in the same spread) on the same stock with different strike prices and different expirations. As we will show... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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The One-to-One Diagonal Spread
2008-01-10 03:09:00
You create a diagonal spread when you buy and write options (calls or puts, but not both in the same spread) on the same stock with different strike prices and different expirations. As we will show in the examples in this report, diagonal spreads can be used as capital efficient covered call alternatives.Why Diagonal?A bit of folklore: Diagonal spreads are so named because on printed option pricing sheets, options are often listed with the different strike prices as the rows and the different expirations as the columns. Thus, you can draw a diagonal line between the option being bought and the option being sold. Using the same logic, basic bull and bear spreads, which involve buying and selling options with the same expiration but different strike prices, are often called "vertical" spreads (because you can draw a vertical line between the two options). Also, calendar spreads which involve buying and selling options with the same strike price but different expirations are often kno...
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Calendar Spreads
2008-01-10 03:08:00
This week, we explore the dynamics of the 1-to-1 calendar spread. Most of the time, the investor buys what is called a "long calendar spread" in which he or she buys the longer-term call (or put) and... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Hedging with Bear Spreads
2008-01-10 03:07:00
In our May 22, 2006 report, we showed you how you can hedge your stock with ?collars,? which are basically combinations of covered calls and protective puts. This week, we show how you can hedge with... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Hedging Your Stock with Collars
2008-01-10 03:06:00
It is well known that you can hedge a stock by either buying a put or by writing a call on it. What is not so well known is that you can combine these two strategies. This long stock + short call +... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Meet the "Greeks"
2008-01-10 03:05:00
Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho - you are likely to hear these "Greek" risk measures whenever traders talk about options. Although these terms sound complicated, they actually are easy to... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Hedging Stocks with "Married" or "Protective" Puts
2008-01-10 03:05:00
Put insurance is surprisingly cheap these days... For nearly two years now, we have been ranking so-called "married" (or "protective") puts (as well as uncovered options and covered calls). These... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Capital Efficient Covered Call Alternatives
2008-01-10 03:04:00
Covered call writing has been very good to the Value Line Daily Options Survey over the past 4 ¾ years. Since the end of September 2001, our rank 1 covered calls have scored an average annual gain of... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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A Primer on Put/Call Parity & How to Use It
2008-01-10 03:03:00
This week, we review what are known as the put/call parity rules. If you know one rule - and you remember your high school algebra - you can quickly master all the rules. Mastery of these rules gives... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Option Spreads II: Credit Spreads as "Naked" Write Alternatives
2008-01-10 03:01:00
Writing "naked" options can be highly profitable, but it also can be very risky, since losses can easily exceed the margin that you originally posted. In this report, we show you how, in many cases,... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Option Spreads I: Basic Bull and Bear Spreads
2008-01-10 03:01:00
This report is part of an ongoing series on option spreads. Spreads are combinations of different option positions on the same stock. Spreads are really not that complicated once you understand a few... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Writing Puts: An Alternative to Covered Call Writing
2008-01-10 02:59:00
When you write a put on a particular stock with a certain strike and expiration, you have a position that has very similar gain and loss potential as a covered call on that same stock with the same... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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Managing a Covered Call Portfolio
2008-01-10 02:57:00
A covered call portfolio is more complicated to manage than a stock portfolio, but a few simple calculations and basic guidelines can make its management a whole lot simpler. This week, we show how... Online Forex Trading Resources - Improve Your Forex Trading, Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange, Option Trading, Commodity Trading, Future Exchange, Option Forex, Option Stock, Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Currency Trading Strategy with simple to understand guides. Learn How to leverage your investment and maximize your return. Please also visit to http://online-forex-trading-reviews.blogs pot.com/
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