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Wrapping Up Synthetics
April 19th, 2013
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Online Trading Academy Article of the Weekby Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructorp> For the past couple of weeks I’ve been writing about creating synthetic positions, which means making a position that looks like a call out of stock and puts… more »
Turn and Turn Again
March 8th, 2013
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Online Trading Academy Article of the Weekby Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructorp> Last week I noted that Implied Volatility (IV) in general had moved higher, after being at an extremely low level for months. The last year’s range for the I… more »
Backspreads and Profit Loss Diagrams
January 25th, 2013
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Online Trading Academy Article of the Weekby Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructor We’ll continue with our example using XLF, the financial sector ETF. To review, when we picked it as an example on December 14, it was at exactly $16.00… more »
Straddles and Strangles in Depth
January 4th, 2013
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by Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructor Last week we continued with our example of XLF, an Exchange Traded Fund that represents a basket of stocks of companies in the banking, brokerage and insurance industries. Those businesses are sensitiv… more »
Zeroing In On a Strategy
December 21st, 2012
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As I wrote last week, the three things that change option prices are: underlying price change, the passage of time, and changing implied volatility. We have to bet on at least one of them, and be right, to make money. Betting on time passing alone won… more »
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