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Using options to exploit an expected spike in volatility
February 01, 2012
A compelling argument could be made that volatility is the only given...
Options spread that locks in your risk
January 01, 2012
Taking advantage of a sure thing when you're not sure of the timing and volatility...
Creating a synthetic options straddle
December 01, 2011
With options you can take advantage of market movement or volatility...
Using a vertical options spread to greatly reduce vega risk
November 01, 2011
Markets in general and equity markets in particular have been jittery...
Eliminating risk with the iron cockroach
September 19, 2011
Equity indexes have seen a spike in volatility since mid-July and the heat of the debt ceiling debate...
Using a 1x2 options ratio spread
September 01, 2011
When the equity and commodity markets get choppy, traders and investors begin to look for strategies to...
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Trading Techniques
How to manage your employee stock options
December 01, 2011
If you own employee stock options, then you’re an options trader. Here’s how to get the most out of your stake...
Exploiting market maker tools to profit
October 01, 2011
Using market maker pricing mechanisms to improve options trades...
Double your option premium, balance your risk
October 01, 2011
Writing an options strangle can reduce the stress of having a naked position...
Trading option break-even prices
September 01, 2011
Using logarithmic calculations, we can understand options and the importance of upper and lower break-even...
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Trader Profiles
Doherty: Everything neutral except performance
September 16, 2009
Robert Doherty, founder of Doherty Advisors LLC in New York, has more than 20 years of experience managing money, most of it on the proprietary trading side of large institutions......
Clarke: Consistently profitable
February 13, 2008
Clarke Capital Management (CCM) has produced consistently solid returns through its numerous trading programs for more than a decade. While trend following programs have struggled at times in recent...
Khan Noorpuri: Perfecting option writing
August 21, 2007
Ansbacher Investment management (AIM) was already one of the oldest and most successful option writing commodity trading advisors in 2002, so there was some risk involved when founding principal Max...
'Bill Stevens: Everythings relative
August 16, 2006
“I’m much more interested in the relationship of the options to the futures or the options to each other or one skew to another skew, than I am absolute values,” he says. “That’s where we try to...
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Top Brokers
By Customer Segregated Funds
(Data in millions as of March 2011)

1 NEWEDGE  $ 23,499
2 GOLDMAN SACHS $ 23,027
3 JP MORGAN $ 17,325
4 DEUTSCHE BANK $ 16,365
5 MERRILL LYNCH $ 10,522
6 UBS SECURITIES $ 10,180
7 CITIGROUP $ 10,066
8 MF GLOBAL INC $   8,078
9 CREDIT SUISSE $   5,614
10 BARCLAYS CAPITAL. $   5,512
Source: CFTC
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