Matt Baker

I would like to continue this month with my new series on Iron Condor (IC) trading and share some of the insights I gained in trading Iron Condors on the Russell 2000 Index (RUT).

I’d like to use the opportunity to share some of the insights I gained in my Iron Condor trading on the Russell 2000 Index (RUT).

Welcome to part 15 of my series on the Greeks. Over  the last several months we have gone over a lot of issues on the Greeks  including their meaning, practical application, how they behave, and how to  manage them on a trade level and over a whole portfolio. Where to from here?

Welcome to part 14 of my series on the Greeks. In last weeks article we constructed a sample portfolio of three trades, and looked at the overall portfolio Greeks.

After most bear markets, we usually see a period of the market trending sideways. But what does ‘sideways’ really mean? A sideways market is one that goes neither strongly up nor down, but just drifts along more or less in a channel. There are however periods within the channel where the market goes up or down strongly, but when you average out the gains and losses over a period of time, perhaps a couple of months, the market hasn’t made or lost much ground.

Welcome to Part 12 of my series on the Greeks. In this article and the one following we are going to focus again on choosing your Greeks but this time on the level of the whole portfolio, rather than just in individual trades.

In this week’s article I would like to share with you some ways to construct a trade plan that I have found very helpful - helpful in forcing me to know exactly what I'm doing and what moves I'm going to make, when.

I have just spent the last 2 days at the February 2009 Optionetics 2-day seminar in Sydney. Most of the room were new students and I found it really special connecting again with people who are at the start of their trading careers.

What an amazing year we had in the markets in 2008.