Posts Tagged ‘options

On this forex trading video presentation, professional trader and esteemed writer, Manesh Patel discusses the forex market for the week ahead using current market conditions to demonstrate some of the basics of the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo support and resistance system. Following the same strategies that are taught in his 5-Day Forex Lab, Manesh uses informative and recent educational chart examples to show how Ichimoku helps pinpoint where to enter and exit a trade.

Hi everybody and welcome to this article on credit spreads. In this class today we will be discussing the importance of adjustments and what can happen to you if you do not know how to properly manage your option positions. One of the most popular option spreads on the market is called a credit spread, and we will be looking at this particular spread today. Some people consider this to be a high probability type of trade but until you actually work with this strategy, you may not know or understand the risk involved. An options credit spread can be particularly risky if it is traded alone, meaning that it is not being hedged by any other option position.

While the volatility is dropping and the market is in an uptrend, one might believe that this is prime time to trade the Iron Condor. This is because the Iron Condor is a negative Vega option spread and it benefits by a drop in the volatility.

Knowing how to invest internationally requires really good investor sense. The international finance markets are no playground for an amateur, and if you are seriously thinking about moving your money off-shore then there are a number of important aspects that you need to be well aware of before you take the plunge.

Have you ever received the dreaded forex margin call? But contrary to the popular opinion that a margin call represents that worst case scenario for the currency trader, this is far from the truth. The risk that is assumed when trading aggressively the currency markets often results in receiving a margin call. The worst case could be far worse.

Economically, the United Kingdom is more free-market oriented than Europe, and it tends to share a more common set of views with the United States. At the same time, the United Kingdom cant totally disassociate itself from Europe, given its history and its geography. The upshot is a currency that is affected by politics at home and on the two continents to which its destiny is so closely related.

Perhaps the best advice that you will receive in your trading career is live to trade another day. Currency markets are volatile, brutal and unforgiving. You should learn to survive in the markets.

There are hundreds of ETFs and HOLDRS covering key industry benchmarks such as the various Standard & Poor Indexes, Russell Indexes and the Dow Jones Averages or other less well known narrow based sectors.

Global commodity trading now takes place on a growing platform of modern, transparent commodity exchanges across all time zones. Using agreed frameworks of rules and regulations and standard contract designs we now see a wide range of commodities traded between end users and primary producers. The result is that it is now much easier to buy and sell across the range of basic commodities from orange juice to gold bullion, from crude oil to coffee beans.

During tumultuous markets, the global macro trader often finds himself in lonely company. Instead of losing a lot or even most of his money the macro trader often finds that he has generated strong returns while most other trading styles have failed. Because of the macro traders penchant for risk it is important for them to practice sound risk management principles.