Posts Tagged ‘Investing’

The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets [Hardcover]

 “Jeff’s analysis is unique, at least among academic derivatives textbooks. I would definitely use this material in my derivatives class, as I believe students would benefit from analyzing the many dimensions of Jeff’s trading strategies. I especially found the material on trading the earnings cycle and discussion of how to insure against price [...]

Trade Currencies Like Stock and Make More Money

The title is deceptive actually. What is being talked about is that if you are holding substantial amounts of Pounds, or Dollars or the Euro, or other currency, you can use that currency to make money on your currency by trading.
Currency Trade is where the currency is bought and sold. Just like stocks and shares [...]

FOREX – Use Options to Reduce Your Risk

An option is a contract to that gives the holder the right to buy or sell currency at a pre-determined price at a specific price. The holder of the contract has the right to exercise the option but is not obligated to. Options are used as a hedge in FOREX transactions; they are [...]

Seasonal Spread Trade for Consistent Returns


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Seasonal Spread Trade for Consistent Returns
Spread trading is a unique trading concept not all that familiar to the average commodity investor. The typical commodity trader analyzes a particular market, either from a technical or a fundamental standpoint, sometimes combining the two; makes a determination as to whether the market exhibits either a bullish or bearish [...]

Hedging – What is It, and It’s Uses in Risk Management

The second of a two part article…. Before I discuss the use of hedging to off-set risk, we need to understand the role and the purpose of hedging. The history of modern futures trading begins in Chicago in the early 1800’s. Chicago is located at the base of the Great Lakes, close to the farmlands [...]

Forex Trading… Let Robots Trade Largest Market 24 Hours

Software that Fights Insomnia There are two definitions for the word Forex. It is, along with FX an anagram for foreign exchange market which trade’s currencies. In a forex trade, you buy one currency while simultaneously selling another – that is, you’re exchanging the sold currency for the one you’re buying. The foreign exchange market [...]

Why Day Trade Futures Instead of Stocks or Options

I don’t doubt the legion of day traders who claim great success with options and stocks.  But neither of these investments meets the criteria for a great day trading instrument for me.   Why? The real issue in day trading stocks for me is the lack of leverage available to maximize profits.  Regulation T is currently [...]

How To Start A Home Business With Options Trading And Credit Spreads

If you are like most people, in these times of economic uncertainty you are looking for a way to earn extra money, that doesn’t take a lot of time, preferably from home and that doesn’t require a lot of capital to get started. If you fall into this category then options trading might be just [...]

Options Trading Strategy – An Economic Ecosystem

There is much talk today about the earth’s ecosystem, how human activity has destroyed much of it and continues to do so at an alarming pace. Most of us know by now that human activity, as it is practiced today, is not sustainable in the long run. As a species we are loosing our home [...]

Option Trading Strategies Can Make Investing Safer