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19 Trading Strategies

Futures poster detailing 19 key strategies

for trading Options.

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January 19, 2010

How to trade binary options on Nadex....

Options Industry Council white paper: Collar strategy

September 24, 2009

The Options Industry Council released a study that found collar strategies outperform buy and hold....

Learning to use options in trading

April 20, 2009

Using options and their ability to establish positions with a known risk is a good idea, but there is a catch-22. Beginner and less capitalized traders can benefit from options, but understanding...

Getting started in trading

January 14, 2009

The National Futures Association says the way you participate in trading depends on four factors: your knowledge and previous experience in trading, how much time you are able to devote to trading,...

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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 December 2009)

1	GOLDMAN SACHS	$ 17,979
2	DEUTSCHE BANK	$ 17,669
3	NEWEDGE	$ 17,623
4	JP MORGAN	$ 14,309
5	CITIGROUP GLOBAL	$ 10,222
6	UBS SECURITIES	$ 9,340
7	MERRILL LYNCH	$ 7,441
8	MF GLOBAL INC	$ 7,262
9	MORGAN STANLEY	$ 4,477
10	BARCLAYS CAP.	$ 3,880