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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007by Bruce Babcock One of the biggest swindles unscrupulous commodity vendors are pulling is to suggest that you can be a successful commodity trader with minimum capital. In order to sell their trading courses, they claim you can make a fortune starting with whatever amount you currently have available. Most thoughtful experts agree that there [...]
Evaluating a Money Manager
Saturday, December 1st, 2007by Tom Koziol Scams and frauds are designed to take your money through false promises and phony claims. Money management is supposedly designed to increase your net worth. Sometimes these two worlds meet and the results are not in your favor, i.e., you have a considerable decrease in net worth. The information in this article [...]
Buying Options: Reading Options Prices
Friday, November 30th, 2007by Rick Thachuk Beginning traders are often urged to limit their initial trading activity to the purchase of options, buying a call option if prices are expected to rise and buying a put option if prices are expected to fall. Options have the primary advantage of limiting downside risk: for any option that is purchased, [...]
Buying Options: Picking the Strike Price
Friday, November 30th, 2007by Rick Thachuk In this article, I’ll discuss an issue that confuses many beginning option traders, namely, how to pick the right strike price of an option. For any call or put option of a specific contract month, a list of options is available each having a different strike price. Consider, for example, call options [...]
High Probability Trading
Friday, November 30th, 2007by Neal Hughes – FibMaster Even traders with limited experience start to realize that we are not trying to capture every market move. We want to improve our odds and reduce our frustration by filtering, for high-probability trades. The combination of trend and Fibonacci techniques can provide powerful signals for higher probability trading. We already [...]
Option Trading – Thinking “Outside the Box”
Thursday, November 29th, 2007by David Rivera Wouldn’t it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn’t lose. Well we can’t. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread [...]
Trading for a Living-Part 2
Thursday, November 29th, 2007By Geoff Turnbull In part 1 of this article I started to look at the financial implications of giving up the day job to instead start trading full time for a living. There are more than just monetary considerations as we will see later, but for now, there are some more costs to ponder. More [...]
Buying Options: Beware of Deep Out-of-the-Money Options
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007by Rick Thachuk Many option traders, especially beginners, are drawn into buying deep out-of-the-money options. In this article, I’ll explore this strategy and show that, despite its apparent advantages, it is unlikely to build wealth in the long run. A call option is said to be out-of-the-money if the strike price is above the market [...]
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