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Strategies
September 01, 2010
Using short time spreads without freezing up your capital...
August 01, 2010
How to trade a short time spread in options....
June 21, 2010
How to use the 1-3-2 trade in options when the broken wing butterfly can no longer be done at a premium....
June 01, 2010
What to do when your long position is far above the historical mean but appears to have room to the upside....
May 01, 2010
In options, is selling a naked put more risky than executing a covered call?...
April 28, 2010
A side-by-side comparison of naked put vs. covered call....
Trading Techniques
August 24, 2010
Opportunities created by debt and economic problems in Europe make this a good time to look at potential trades in forex options....
August 18, 2010
Although most traders are familiar with the VIX, many are perplexed by the unique unconventional relationship of its futures and options....
July 01, 2010
In an effort to help the ailing U.S. economy, the Fed has short-term rates at historically low levels. Options on eurodollar futures offer insight into where we go from here....
May 24, 2010
Multiple criteria are typically used to analyze potential individual equity option trades. In this first of two parts, we introduce the most efficient approach for selecting these criteria: the Pareto-optimality....
Trader Profiles
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......
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...
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...
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...